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Kristin Hersh
Solo artist Atlanta United States
Kristin Hersh is an artist from Atlanta. Kristin Hersh has 8 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2021. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Your Ghost”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #41. The station that charted Kristin Hersh most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1994.
Kristin Hersh had been part of Throwing Muses since 1981, and in 1994 she stepped out on her own with Hips and Makers on 4AD. "Your Ghost" came from that record, and it sounds like the rest of it: close, spare and unsettling, like overhearing someone work through something private.
Born in Atlanta in 1966, Hersh has always written from her own experiences, her words spilling out in a stream-of-consciousness rush that follows emotional logic rather than neat rhymes. Her guitar playing can go jagged and dissonant one moment and turn to plain, old-fashioned folk the next, which keeps every song on edge.
Solo records became a long-running second career, with eleven of them so far, and in 2003 she found another outlet for her writing in the band 50 Foot Wave.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kristin Hersh on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your Ghost | 5 | #41 | – | 1994 | |
| 2 | Trouble | 3 | #484 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 764 | Your Ghost | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s |
| 2019 | 843 | Your Ghost | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 843 | Your Ghost | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 878 | Trouble | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 878 | Trouble | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 |
| 2016 | 484 | Trouble | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 |
| 2002 | 1246 | Your Ghost | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) |
| 1994 | 41 | Your Ghost | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994 |
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