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Kim Wilde

Solo artist Chiswick United Kingdom

Kim Wilde is an artist from Chiswick. Kim Wilde has 21 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 1988–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Kids In America”, which appears on 20 lists with a best position of #98. The station that charted Kim Wilde most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances.

21appearances

20countdowns

2songs charted

8stations

0#1 finishes

1988–2026years

Kim Wilde, born Kim Smith in 1960, came out of Chiswick in 1981 with "Kids in America", a debut single built on a buzzing synth riff and a chorus you could shout from the back of a school bus, and it went to number 2 in the UK. It set the template: new wave attitude, pop smarts and a voice that sounds cool even when the music is racing. The album Select followed in 1982 with "View from a Bridge", and she had more hits in "Chequered Love", "You Came" and "Never Trust a Stranger".

She won the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist in 1983. In 1986 her reworked version of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" went to number 2 in the UK and then topped the US Billboard Hot 100 the following year. Between 1981 and 1996 she put 25 singles in the UK top 50, and no British woman working solo in the '80s racked up more UK Top 40 hits than her seventeen.

In 2003 she teamed up with Nena on "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime", which went to number one in the Netherlands and Austria. She has also built a second career as a landscape gardener, presenting gardening shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and winning a Gold award at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2005.

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

Songs by Kim Wilde on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Kids In America	1,011	20	#98	–	–
2	View from a Bridge	23	1	#1581	–	–

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1982Select1 charting song

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2026	98	Kids In America	WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '80s
2023	768	Kids In America	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time
2023	358	Kids In America	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s
2023	384	Kids In America	The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places
2005	776	Kids In America	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	776	Kids In America	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	776	Kids In America	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	212	Kids In America	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003	1581	View from a Bridge	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002	776	Kids In America	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	824	Kids In America	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001	776	Kids In America	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	776	Kids In America	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	276	Kids In America	WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	1031	Kids In America	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1998	219	Kids In America	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998)
1996	379	Kids In America	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996)
1996	323	Kids In America	Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996)
1995	281	Kids In America	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1989	318	Kids In America	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989)
1988	133	Kids In America	WLIR Top 200 Songs of All-Time (1988)

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