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Courtney Love
Solo artist San Francisco United States US rock vocalist, widow to Kurt Cobain
Courtney Love is an artist from San Francisco. Courtney Love has 8 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Mono”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #71. The station that charted Courtney Love most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Courtney Love finally went solo in 2004 with America's Sweetheart, and "Mono" is its sharpest grenade: a snarling, stop-start blast of punk-pop that sounds like she's picking a fight with the whole post-grunge era and winning on points. Born in 1964, raised mostly in Portland, Oregon, where she cut her teeth in short-lived bands in the local punk scene, she had been making noise for a long time before that.
She formed Hole in Los Angeles in 1989 with guitarist Eric Erlandson, singing lead and playing rhythm guitar, and the band earned underground raves with Pretty on the Inside, produced by Kim Gordon in 1991. Live Through This, in 1994, brought acclaim and multi-platinum sales, and Celebrity Skin, in 1998, picked up three Grammy nominations. Along the way she married Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, acted in Sid and Nancy, and earned a Golden Globe nomination for The People vs. Larry Flynt.
On stage she's all nerve and no brakes, and her words have always come out swinging. After America's Sweetheart, her next record, Nobody's Daughter, took until 2010 to surface, released under the Hole name but without the old lineup.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Courtney Love on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mono | 7 | #71 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | Hold On To Me | 1 | #104 | – | 2004 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 98 | Mono | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 75 | Mono | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 98 | Mono | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 99 | Mono | Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 71 | Mono | CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 84 | Mono | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 104 | Hold On To Me | G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004 |
| 2004 | 174 (tie) | Mono | WBER Listener Countdown 2004 |
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