Artist · chart history
Nelly Furtado
Solo artist Victoria Canada
Nelly Furtado is an artist from Victoria. Nelly Furtado has 6 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I'm Like A Bird”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Nelly Furtado most often is WHTG (Monmouth-Ocean, NJ), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
Nelly Furtado blew in from Victoria, Canada, in 2000 with Whoa, Nelly!, a debut that sounded like nobody else on the radio: folk guitar and hip-hop beats, trip-hop shadows and pop hooks, and a voice that skips between them like a kid hopping puddles. "I'm Like A Bird" was the breakout, light on its feet and impossible to shake, and it won her the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "Turn Off The Light" followed, sharper and moodier, with more of that restless genre-hopping.
She never did sit still. Folklore, in 2003, turned inward and leaned on the folk music of her Portuguese heritage. Loose, in 2006, reinvented her again, this time with Timbaland riding shotgun on "Promiscuous", and became the biggest record she has made, selling over 10 million copies. Mi Plan, sung in Spanish, earned her a Latin Grammy, and she later went independent, putting out The Ride on her own Nelstar Entertainment label.
Along the way she has played guitar, keyboards, bass, ukulele and even trombone, sold over 45 million records, landed on Canada's Walk of Fame, and been made a Commander of the Order of Prince Henry in 2014.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Nelly Furtado on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I'm Like A Bird | 3 | #19 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | Turn Off The Light | 2 | #19 | – | 2001 | |
| 3 | Promiscuous | 1 | #200 | – | – |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 200 | Promiscuous | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s |
| 2001 | 19 | Turn Off The Light | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 19 | I'm Like A Bird | G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 32 | Turn Off The Light | G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 185 | I'm Like A Bird | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) |
| 2000 | 68 | I'm Like A Bird | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2000 |
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