Song · Heart
“Even It Up” by Heart
From the album Bébé le Strange (1980)
“Even It Up” by Heart appears on 18 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1980 and 2024. It was first released in 1980 on the album Bébé le Strange. Its best result is #10 on the KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from 1980. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #39 alternative song of 1980.
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"Even It Up" kicked off Heart's Bébé le Strange, the band's fifth album, and went out ahead of it as the lead single in 1980, landing like a door slammed on a lover who never pulls his weight. Ann Wilson sings as a woman who has done all the giving and wants the books balanced, and she belts it like the demand is non-negotiable. Nancy Wilson and Howard Leese churn the guitars, Michael Derosier drives it hard, and the Tower of Power horn section blasts brass across the rock and roll, the first of the Heart songs to bring those horns aboard.
Ann, Nancy and Sue Ennis wrote it, and Mike Flicker produced alongside Connie & Howie. Ann later tied it to the walls the sisters kept hitting as women in rock, which gives the quarrel a second target.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 39 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1980 | 106 |
| 1980 | 10 | KISW Seattle-Tacoma, WA | KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from 1980 | 25 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 225 | 95.5 KLOS | KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) | 499 |
| 1994 | 597 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 494 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 340 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 321 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 388 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2012 | 1075 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2017 | 528 | 97.9 The Loop | 97.9 The Loop Top 540 Countdown (2017) | 540 |
| 2019 | 999 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2020 | 361 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) | 1025 |
| 2022 | 568 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) | 1025 |
| 2022 | 411 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2023 | 458 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023) | 500 |
| 2023 | 997 | 101.5 WPDH | WPDH Top 1015 (2023) | 1015 |
| 2024 | 544 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) | 1043 |
| 2024 | 245 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2024) | 500 |
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