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Loretta Lynn
Solo artist Butcher Hollow United States
Loretta Lynn is an artist from Butcher Hollow. Loretta Lynn has 34 chart appearances on 27 radio countdowns from 9 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Portland, Oregon”, which appears on 23 lists with a best position of #20. The station that charted Loretta Lynn most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 9 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Loretta Lynn, born in Butcher Hollow in 1932, had been country music's straight-talking queen for decades by the time Van Lear Rose came out in 2004, and the album made her sound brand new. It is a raw, rocking record, and "Portland, Oregon" is its rowdiest moment: a boozy, stomping number that crackles with loud guitars and has more swagger than most bands half her age could manage. It was nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize that year.
Her own story is the stuff of legend, and Hollywood made it one: the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter had Sissy Spacek playing her. The hits that built it were tough and funny and often startlingly frank, from "You Ain't Woman Enough" and "Fist City" to "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)" and "The Pill". She won the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist of the Year in 1967, 1972 and 1973, and a Grammy in 1971 for her duets with Conway Twitty.
She ran up 24 number-one singles and 11 number-one albums, and she stayed on the road for 57 years before a stroke in 2017 and a broken hip in 2018 brought the touring to an end. She died in 2022.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Loretta Lynn on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portland, Oregon | 23 | #20 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | Van Lear Rose | 4 | #399 | – | – | |
| 3 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 2 | #225 | – | – | |
| 4 | One's on the Way | 1 | #425 | – | – | |
| 5 | The Pill | 1 | #535 | – | – | |
| 6 | Portland | 1 | #407 | – | – | |
| 7 | Hey Loretta | 1 | #659 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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