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Lauryn Hill
Solo artist East Orange United States
Lauryn Hill is an artist from East Orange. Lauryn Hill has 22 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Doo-Wop (That Thing)”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Lauryn Hill most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 7 appearances.
Lauryn Hill, born in East Orange in 1975, had already lived a couple of careers before she turned solo. She was a teen actor first, on the soap As the World Turns and in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, a film that put her rendition of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" front and center. Then she became the voice and the swagger at the front of the Fugees, whose album The Score, with "Killing Me Softly" and "Ready or Not", won the Grammy for Best Rap Album and made her the first woman to take that prize home.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998, is the sound of one person refusing to pick a lane. She raps like a street-corner preacher, sings like a church soloist and pulls hip-hop, soul and reggae into the same warm, crackling room. "Doo Wop (That Thing)" crashed in at number one; "Ex-Factor" aches; "Everything Is Everything" swings with a sly optimism. The album opened at the top of the Billboard 200, and at the Grammys in 1999 she was the first rapper ever handed Album of the Year, collecting five trophies in one night, Best New Artist among them.
She wrote "A Rose Is Still a Rose" for Aretha Franklin, produced for Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige and Santana, and turned up on records by Nas and Wyclef Jean. After MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 in 2002 she largely stepped out of the spotlight, surfacing now and then with a new single. In 2026 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame put her name on its ballot.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Lauryn Hill on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doo-Wop (That Thing) | 10 | #2 | – | – | |
| 2 | Everything is Everything | 5 | #136 | – | – | |
| 3 | Ex-Factor | 2 | #167 | – | – | |
| 4 | To Zion | 1 | #463 | – | – | |
| 5 | Every Ghetto Every City | 1 | #542 | – | – | |
| 6 | Every Ghetto, Every City (KCMP Edit) | 1 | #758 | – | – | |
| 7 | Can't Take My Eyes Off of You | 1 | #787 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Lauryn Hill as a guest.
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