Artist · chart history
Laura Marling
Solo artist Eversley United Kingdom
Laura Marling is an artist from Eversley. Laura Marling has 38 chart appearances on 30 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2008–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Sophia”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Laura Marling most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Laura Marling moved to London at 16 to join her older sisters and chase music, playing with several groups, Noah and the Whale among them, before her debut album, Alas I Cannot Swim, came out in 2008. What she brought was a folk singer's patience and a novelist's eye: acoustic guitar, a voice that stays cool while the songs get tangled, and a way of writing about sex, loss, relationships and womanhood with unnerving clarity.
That debut drew a Mercury Prize nomination, and so did I Speak Because I Can, Once I Was an Eagle and Song for Our Daughter. A Creature I Don't Know in 2011 turned up the drama with "Sophia", and the same year she won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist. Short Movie in 2015 roughed things up on "False Hope"; Semper Femina in 2017 and Song for Our Daughter in 2020 both earned Grammy nominations for Best Folk Album, with "Held Down" and "Strange Girl" showing how warm and sly she can be. She also made music as part of Lump, and she remains one of the most admired songwriters of Britain's folk revival.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Laura Marling on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sophia | 8 | #6 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Held Down | 5 | #7 | – | 2020 | |
| 3 | Strange Girl | 7 | #18 | – | 2020 | |
| 4 | False Hope | 5 | #10 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | Where Can I Go | 3 | #32 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | Wildfire | 2 | #27 | – | 2017 | |
| 7 | Rambling Man | 1 | #5 | – | 2010 | |
| 8 | Master Hunter | 3 | #121 | – | 2013 | |
| 9 | Ghosts | 1 | #43 | – | 2008 | |
| 10 | Nothing, Not Nearly | 1 | #507 | – | – | |
| 11 | I Was An Eagle | 1 | #141 | – | 2013 | |
| 12 | Short Movie | 1 | #88 | – | 2015 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Laura Marling 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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