Artist · chart history
Belinda Carlisle
Solo artist Los Angeles United States
Belinda Carlisle is an artist from Los Angeles. Belinda Carlisle has 4 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1986–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Heaven is a Place on Earth”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #413. The station that charted Belinda Carlisle most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1986.
Belinda Carlisle, born in 1958 and raised in Southern California, was the voice of the Go-Go's, the band she co-founded in 1978. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, went all the way to the top in 1981, and the group did as much as anyone to bring new wave to the American mainstream. When the Go-Go's fell apart in 1985, she stepped out on her own.
Belinda, her first solo album, arrived in 1986 with "Mad About You", a shiny, sunlit pop-rock single that trades the Go-Go's' garage-party scrappiness for gloss and big production without losing the wide-eyed charm in her voice. More radio hits followed: "I Get Weak", "Circle in the Sand", "Leave a Light On", "Summer Rain" and the soaring "Heaven Is a Place on Earth".
The Go-Go's got back together in 1999, and Carlisle sang with them while keeping her solo career going, right up until they called it quits in 2022. Her memoir, Lips Unsealed, came out in June 2010 and made the New York Times Best Seller list. With the band she got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011 and went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Belinda Carlisle on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heaven is a Place on Earth | 2 | #413 | – | – | |
| 2 | Mad About You | 2 | #81 | – | 1986 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 413 | Heaven is a Place on Earth | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '80s |
| 2006 | 420 | Heaven is a Place on Earth | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) |
| 1986 | 81 | Mad About You | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986 |
| 1986 | 85 | Mad About You | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1986 |
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