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Loreena McKennitt
Solo artist Morden Canada
Loreena McKennitt is an artist from Morden. Loreena McKennitt has 13 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “The Mummer's Dance”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #53. The station that charted Loreena McKennitt most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1998.
Loreena McKennitt, a Canadian from Morden born in 1957, makes records that sound like they were found rather than written: old roads, old stones, candlelight. She writes and composes her material and plays much of it too, on harp, piano and accordion, but the instrument that stops people in their tracks is that clear, cool soprano, which floats over everything like mist over a field.
Her music starts from Celtic roots and wanders east, pulling in Middle Eastern colors along the way. The Visit, in 1991, carried "All Souls Night", a hypnotic, lantern-lit processional. The Mask and Mirror, in 1994, pushed the journey further with "The Mystic's Dream", as dark and spacious as a cathedral at dusk, and "The Mummer's Dance" has found its way onto rock countdowns too.
Her records, on Quinlan Road and Warner Bros. among others, have sold more than 16 million copies around the world. Canada made her a Member of the Order of Canada, and she also received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Loreena McKennitt on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mummer's Dance | 9 | #53 | – | 1998 | |
| 2 | The Mystic's Dream | 2 | #310 | – | – | |
| 3 | All Souls Night | 1 | #78 | – | 1991 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 363 | The Mummer's Dance | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2024 | 841 | The Mummer's Dance | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years |
| 2020 | 1415 | The Mummer's Dance | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2020 | 1586 | The Mystic's Dream | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2009 | 310 | The Mystic's Dream | WYEP 913 Essential Songs |
| 2009 | 698 | The Mummer's Dance | WYEP 913 Essential Songs |
| 2006 | 380 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 1998 | 88 | The Mummer's Dance | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 |
| 1998 | 53 | The Mummer's Dance | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 |
| 1998 | 92 | The Mummer's Dance | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 |
| 1998 | 75 | The Mummer's Dance | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 |
| 1998 | 86 | The Mummer's Dance | WBER Listener Countdown 1998 |
| 1991 | 78 | All Souls Night | CFNY Top 91 Songs of 1991 |
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