Artist · chart history
Lita Ford
Solo artist London United States
Lita Ford is an artist from London. Lita Ford has 38 chart appearances on 31 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Close My Eyes Forever”, which appears on 26 lists with a best position of #123. The station that charted Lita Ford most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 7 appearances.
Lita Ford, born in London in 1958, first made her name as lead guitarist of the Runaways, the all-female band that played as loud and dirty as anybody. Then she went solo and went metal, and by the late '80s she was riding the glam wave with the best of them.
Dancin' on the Edge in 1984 gave her "Gotta Let Go", but Lita, in 1988, is where it all came together. "Kiss Me Deadly" is pure hard-rock swagger, a fist-pumping Friday-night anthem with a guitar that sneers as much as the singer. "Falling in and Out of Love" kept the heat on, and "Close My Eyes Forever", her duet with Ozzy Osbourne, turned into her biggest hit, climbing to No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, a tender, smoky power ballad that let Ozzy get sentimental.
Stiletto followed in 1990 with "Lisa". Plenty of people in the glam scene played guitar for show; Ford was the real thing, and she has long been billed as the Queen of Metal.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Lita Ford on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Close My Eyes Forever | 26 | #123 | – | – | |
| 2 | Kiss Me Deadly | 7 | #138 | – | – | |
| 3 | Close My Eyes | 2 | #537 | – | – | |
| 4 | Gotta Let Go | 1 | #656 | – | – | |
| 5 | Falling in and Out of Love | 1 | #837 | – | – | |
| 6 | Lisa | 1 | #984 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Lita Ford as a guest.
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