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Imogen Heap
Solo artist Harold Wood United Kingdom
Imogen Heap is an artist from Harold Wood. Imogen Heap has 28 chart appearances on 26 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2005–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Hide and Seek”, which appears on 11 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Imogen Heap most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Imogen Heap, born in 1977 and hailing from Harold Wood, signed a record deal while she was still at the BRIT School, and her debut, I Megaphone, sold so poorly in 1998 that she was soon without a label. The detour that saved her was Frou Frou, the electronic duo she formed with producer Guy Sigsworth in 2000; their only album, Details, came out in 2002, and "Let Go" found a second life on the Garden State soundtrack.
Speak for Yourself in 2005 is the one that made her a cult hero. She produced, recorded, arranged and mixed it herself, designed the cover, and put it out on her own label, Megaphonic Records. "Hide and Seek", stark and spectral, got its big break on The O.C. and travelled the world from there; "Headlock", from the same record, went viral on TikTok nearly two decades later.
Ellipse in 2009 went top five on the Billboard 200, gave her "First Train Home", and brought her the Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, a prize only Trina Shoemaker among women had taken before her. Since then she has made Sparks, built the Mi.Mu musical gloves, scored Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and shared in the Album of the Year Grammy for her production work on Taylor Swift's 1989.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Imogen Heap on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide and Seek | 11 | #1 | 1 | 2006 | |
| 2 | First Train Home | 10 | #40 | – | 2009 | |
| 3 | Goodnight and Go | 3 | #11 | – | 2005 | |
| 4 | Just For Now | 1 | #61 | – | 2006 | |
| 5 | Not Now But Soon | 1 | #83 | – | 2008 | |
| 6 | Telemiscommunications | 1 | #97 | – | 2014 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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