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Linda Ronstadt
Solo artist Tucson United States
Linda Ronstadt is an artist from Tucson. Linda Ronstadt has 25 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1982–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “You're No Good”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #13. The station that charted Linda Ronstadt most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 8 appearances.
Linda Ronstadt, born in Tucson in 1946, has the kind of voice that makes other singers wonder why they bother. She came up through the Stone Poneys and the Bullets and could handle rock, folk, pop, country and soul without breaking a sweat.
The run of records she made in the mid-'70s is where it all clicked. Don't Cry Now in 1973 had the aching "Love Has No Pride"; Heart Like a Wheel in 1974 paired the tender title song with "You're No Good", a slow-burning, snarling kiss-off that gave her the only number-one single of her career. Hasten Down the Wind brought "Lose Again" in 1976, and Simple Dreams followed in 1977 with a gorgeously wounded "Blue Bayou", the year she also won the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
She never stuck to one lane, singing with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris as Trio and with everyone from Gram Parsons and Neil Young to Warren Zevon, and she picked up 11 Grammys along the way. Her voice began to fail her after 2000; she retired in 2011 and later learned the cause was progressive supranuclear palsy. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Medal of Arts came in 2014, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2019, the same year a documentary built on her memoir, The Sound of My Voice, arrived.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Linda Ronstadt on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You're No Good | 9 | #13 | – | – | |
| 2 | Blue Bayou | 5 | #131 | – | – | |
| 3 | Desperado | 2 | #405 | – | – | |
| 4 | Poor Poor Pitiful Me | 1 | #201 | – | – | |
| 5 | When Will I Be Loved | 2 | #478 | – | – | |
| 6 | Heat Wave | 1 | #261 | – | – | |
| 7 | Someone To Lay Down Beside Me | 1 | #826 | – | – | |
| 8 | Lose Again | 1 | #1499 | – | – | |
| 9 | Heart Like A Wheel | 1 | #1621 | – | – | |
| 10 | Love Has No Pride | 1 | #771 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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