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Cher
Solo artist El Centro United States
Cher is an artist from El Centro. Cher has 5 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Believe”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #113. The station that charted Cher most often is WFPK (Louisville, KY), with 2 appearances.
Cher was 52 when she released Believe in 1998, and she made a dance-pop record that sounded like the future. The title track ran her voice through Auto-Tune on purpose, bending it into a warbling, robotic swoop that got nicknamed the "Cher effect", and it ended up as America's top song of 1999, while in Britain no woman has ever sold more copies of a single.
That kind of reinvention is the whole story. Born Cheryl Sarkisian in 1946, she first broke through in 1965 alongside Sonny in the folk-rock duo Sonny & Cher, whose "I Got You Babe" came to stand for the whole counterculture moment. At the same time she was cutting moody, theatrical solo songs like "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", which pointed the way to her chart-topping story songs "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed" and "Dark Lady". After a spell in the movies, winning Best Actress for Moonstruck along the way, she came back swinging with the hair-metal albums Cher, Heart of Stone and Love Hurts, and "If I Could Turn Back Time" was all power chords and bravado.
That deep contralto is the constant through all of it, and no other performer can claim both an acting Oscar and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cher on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Believe | 2 | #113 | – | – | |
| 2 | If I Could Turn Back Time | 2 | #442 | – | – |
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 442 | If I Could Turn Back Time | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '80s |
| 2025 | 209 | Believe | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2023 | 113 | Believe | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s |
| 2021 | 774 | If I Could Turn Back Time | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s |
| 2006 | 505 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
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