Artist · chart history
Laura Mvula
Solo artist Birmingham United Kingdom
Laura Mvula is an artist from Birmingham. Laura Mvula has 5 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Green Garden”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Laura Mvula most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2013.
Laura Mvula's 2013 debut, Sing to the Moon on RCA, sounds like nothing else from that year: a Birmingham singer with classical training building soul songs out of choir-loft harmonies and piano. She'd learned her craft in a cappella, jazz and gospel groups and choirs, and it shows in every stacked vocal. "Green Garden" is the sunny, hand-clapping one, and "She", the title track of her acclaimed 2012 EP, is its gorgeous, slow-rolling counterpart.
The album earned her two MOBO Awards and a Mercury Prize nomination, and in 2014 she remade it with the Metropole Orkest as a full orchestral version. The Dreaming Room in 2016 drew another round of praise, took the Ivor Novello award and brought another Mercury nomination.
She then scored the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2017 staging of Antony & Cleopatra, picked up an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University in 2018 and released the 1/f EP in February 2021.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Laura Mvula on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green Garden | 3 | #19 | – | 2013 | |
| 2 | She | 2 | #46 | – | 2013 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 19 | Green Garden | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 46 | She | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 59 | Green Garden | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 134 | She | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013 |
| 2013 | 501 | Green Garden | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) |
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