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Melissa Etheridge
Solo artist Leavenworth United States
Melissa Etheridge is an artist from Leavenworth. Melissa Etheridge has 81 chart appearances on 34 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 1995–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Must Be Crazy For Me”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #460. The station that charted Melissa Etheridge most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 39 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Melissa Etheridge sings like she's been up all night and has something she needs to get off her chest: a smoky, sandpaper voice, an acoustic guitar strummed hard enough to rattle the pickguard, and songs that read like pages torn from a diary. Born in Leavenworth in 1961, she arrived with a self-titled debut on Island in 1988 that built its following from the ground up, and "Bring Me Some Water" earned her a first Grammy nomination. Brave and Crazy followed in 1989, with "You Can Sleep While I Drive" among its keepers.
Never Enough, in 1992, brought her first Grammy win, for "Ain't It Heavy". Then came Yes I Am in 1993, the record that broke her wide open: "I'm the Only One", "If I Wanted To" and "Come to My Window", the last of which won her a second Grammy. She came out publicly that same year and has spoken up for gay and lesbian rights ever since.
Lucky arrived in 2004, the year she was diagnosed with breast cancer. At the Grammys the following year she walked out bald from chemotherapy and tore into a Janis Joplin tribute alongside Joss Stone, a performance that won wide acclaim. She later took home an Academy Award for "I Need to Wake Up", written for An Inconvenient Truth.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Melissa Etheridge on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Must Be Crazy For Me | 7 | #460 | – | – | |
| 2 | Bring Me Some Water | 11 | #174 | – | – | |
| 3 | Like The Way I Do | 12 | #48 | – | – | |
| 4 | I'm The Only One | 11 | #552 | – | – | |
| 5 | Similar Features | 9 | #543 | – | – | |
| 6 | Come to My Window | 6 | #9 | – | – | |
| 7 | Ain't It Heavy | 4 | #861 | – | – | |
| 8 | Keep It Precious | 4 | #945 | – | – | |
| 9 | Yes I Am | 3 | #279 | – | – | |
| 10 | Fearless Love | 3 | #42 | – | 2010 | |
| 11 | You Can Sleep While I Drive | 1 | #334 | – | – | |
| 12 | Breathe | 2 | #68 | – | 2004 | |
| 13 | The Wanting of You | 1 | #87 | – | 2010 | |
| 14 | If I Wanted To | 1 | #774 | – | – | |
| 15 | As Cool As You Try | 1 | #86 | – | 2021 | |
| 16 | Two Thousand One | 2 | #1906 | – | – | |
| 17 | No Souvenirs | 1 | #975 | – | – | |
| 18 | Angels Would Fall | 1 | #25 | – | 1999 |
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.
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