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Heather Nova

Solo artist Bermuda

Heather Nova is an artist from Bermuda. Heather Nova has 18 chart appearances on 17 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 1995–2021. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Walk This World”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #42. The station that charted Heather Nova most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1995.

18appearances

17countdowns

4songs charted

9stations

0#1 finishes

1995–2021years

Heather Nova's backstory reads like a folk song before she ever wrote one. Born in Bermuda in 1967 to a Canadian mother and a Bermudian father, she grew up mostly on a sailboat roaming the Atlantic, then washed up in the United States as a teenager and came away from the Rhode Island School of Design with a film degree in 1989.

Music won out. After a spell in New York she moved to London in 1990 and released her first EP on the indie Big Cat label that same year. Glow Stars came in 1993, and 1994's Oyster is the one the countdowns remember. "Walk This World" is the sound of the whole record in miniature: a voice that floats high and fragile over guitars that grind and swell underneath, confessional without ever getting mopey.

Wider fame waited for Siren in 1998, when two of its songs landed on the American TV series Felicity and Dawson's Creek and the album broke onto the Billboard 200. She has kept going ever since, on albums from South and Storm to 300 Days at Sea and Pearl, plus a poetry album, The Sorrowjoy.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Heather Nova on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Walk This World	421	13	#42	–	1995
2	London Rain	95	2	#47	–	1998
3	Virus Of The Mind	78	2	#55	–	2003
4	London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do)	67	1	#298	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1994Oyster1 charting song

Year-end chart timeline

Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.

95 98 02 03

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2021	298	London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do)	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2021	685	Walk This World	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2005	1439	Walk This World	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	1441	Walk This World	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	55 (tie)	Virus Of The Mind	WBER Listener Countdown 2003
2003	1441	Walk This World	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	98	Virus Of The Mind	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002
2002	1455	Walk This World	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	1457	Walk This World	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	1452	Walk This World	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	1452	Walk This World	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1998	47	London Rain	WBER Listener Countdown 1998
1998	61	London Rain	WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998
1995	73	Walk This World	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1995
1995	42	Walk This World	WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995
1995	45	Walk This World	The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95
1995	46	Walk This World	Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995
1995	101	Walk This World	WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995

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