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Kathleen Edwards
Solo artist Ottawa Canada
Kathleen Edwards is an artist from Ottawa. Kathleen Edwards has 87 chart appearances on 51 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Six O'Clock News”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #59. The station that charted Kathleen Edwards most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 29 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Kathleen Edwards, born in Ottawa in 1978, came along with an alt-country sound that's equal parts back-porch folk and barroom crunch; her sound has been likened to Suzanne Vega meets Neil Young. Her debut album, Failer, gave her "Six O'Clock News" and "Hockey Skates", and her voice, plain-spoken and a little weary, made the songs sound like stories told across a kitchen table.
Back to Me followed in 2005 and Asking for Flowers in 2008, the latter with "I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory"; both made the Billboard 200 and the top 10 of the Heatseekers chart. Voyageur in 2012 went further, her first album to reach the US top 40, at No. 39, and No. 2 back home in Canada. The same year "A Soft Place to Land" won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize.
Then a long gap, until Total Freedom in 2020 brought her back with "Options Open" and "Hard on Everyone", songs that picked up right where she'd left off. In 2025 she was busier than ever, with both Covers and Billionaire, and "Save Your Soul" and a take on "Human Touch".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kathleen Edwards on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six O'Clock News | 9 | #59 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | Options Open | 10 | #3 | – | 2020 | |
| 3 | Save Your Soul | 8 | #7 | – | 2025 | |
| 4 | Change The Sheets | 10 | #19 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory | 8 | #24 | – | 2008 | |
| 6 | Asking For Flowers | 6 | #41 | – | 2008 | |
| 7 | Back To Me | 7 | #122 | – | – | |
| 8 | Hard On Everyone | 8 | #9 | – | 2020 | |
| 9 | Hockey Skates | 4 | #256 | – | – | |
| 10 | The Cheapest Key | 5 | #77 | – | 2008 | |
| 11 | In State | 4 | #803 | – | – | |
| 12 | Billionaire | 1 | #26 | – | 2025 | |
| 13 | Cheapest Key, The | 1 | #462 | – | – | |
| 14 | Human Touch | 1 | #53 | – | 2024 | |
| 15 | Chameleon/Comedian | 1 | #534 | – | – | |
| 16 | Glenfern | 1 | #439 | – | – | |
| 17 | Mint | 2 | #862 | – | – | |
| 18 | When the Truth Comes Out | 1 | #83 | – | 2025 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Kathleen Edwards as a guest.
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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