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Michelle Shocked
Solo artist Dallas United States
Michelle Shocked is an artist from Dallas. Michelle Shocked has 16 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1989–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Anchorage”, which appears on 10 lists with a best position of #89. The station that charted Michelle Shocked most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.
Michelle Shocked, born Karen Michelle Johnston in 1962, is a singer-songwriter from Dallas who plays guitar and mandolin and treats folk music as a living, kicking thing rather than a museum piece. Short Sharp Shocked, on Mercury in 1988, gave radio "Anchorage", a warm, wry, conversational song that sounds like a letter read aloud.
Arkansas Traveler, in 1992, has a rootsier, front-porch feel, and "Come a Long Way" rides its easy, loping groove. Along the way her records have reached the Billboard Hot 100, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album and taken Folk Album of the Year at the CMJ New Music Awards.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Michelle Shocked on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anchorage | 10 | #89 | – | – | |
| 2 | Come a Long Way | 4 | #82 | – | 1992 | |
| 3 | How You Play the Game | 1 | #779 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 236 | Anchorage | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years |
| 2024 | 748 | Come a Long Way | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years |
| 2023 | 222 | Anchorage | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 |
| 2021 | 885 | Anchorage | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s |
| 2019 | 791 | Anchorage | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 |
| 2019 | 791 | Anchorage | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 |
| 2012 | 246 | Anchorage | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown |
| 2010 | 124 | Come a Long Way | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) |
| 2009 | 89 | Anchorage | WYEP 913 Essential Songs |
| 2009 | 779 | How You Play the Game | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade |
| 2007 | 378 | Anchorage | WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time |
| 2006 | 650 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
| 2001 | 1497 | Come a Long Way | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2001 | 1556 | Anchorage | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 1992 | 82 | Come a Long Way | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992 |
| 1989 | 431 | Anchorage | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) |
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