Artist · chart history
Bat For Lashes
Solo artist Wembley United Kingdom
Bat For Lashes is an artist from Wembley. Bat For Lashes has 22 chart appearances on 21 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Daniel”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #41. The station that charted Bat For Lashes most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Bat for Lashes is Natasha Khan, and her records sound like fairy tales told by someone who has been out too late in the woods. Born in 1979 and hailing from Wembley, she writes, sings and produces, and plays autoharp, guitar and piano across albums thick with dreamy, spellbound atmosphere.
Fur and Gold opened the book in 2006, with "What's A Girl To Do?" stomping along on a hypnotic beat. Two Suns followed in 2009, and "Daniel" put her in a more widescreen, synth-driven mood, all longing and shimmer. By The Haunted Man in 2012 she had stripped things back, and "Laura" is little more than her voice and a piano, a ballad that aches all the way through. She picked up three Mercury Prize nominations along the way.
Khan has kept going on her own terms, with The Bride, Lost Girls and The Dream of Delphi, and also sings in Sexwitch, a side project with the band Toy and producer Dan Carey.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Bat For Lashes on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel | 8 | #41 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | Laura | 2 | #30 | – | 2012 | |
| 3 | What's A Girl To Do? | 7 | #713 | – | – | |
| 4 | Sad Eyes | 1 | #61 | – | 2007 | |
| 5 | I Will Love Again | 1 | #70 | – | 2016 | |
| 6 | Siren Song | 1 | #76 | – | 2009 | |
| 7 | If I Knew | 1 | #69 | – | 2018 | |
| 8 | All Your Gold | 1 | #190 | – | 2012 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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