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Shakespear's Sister

Band London United Kingdom Formed 1988

Shakespear's Sister formed in 1988 in London, United Kingdom. Shakespear's Sister has 21 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 1992–2014. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Stay”, which appears on 19 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted Shakespear's Sister most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.

21appearances

20countdowns

2songs charted

4stations

0#1 finishes

1992–2014years

Shakespear's Sister started in London in 1988 as Siobhan Fahey's escape route from Bananarama. The Irish singer ditched the girl-group gloss and set out on her own under a new name, and by 1989 it had become a duo, with the American musician Marcella Detroit on board. The pairing was all delicious friction, synth-pop sheen rubbed up against alternative-rock bite.

Hormonally Yours, their 1992 album on London Records, is where it all came together. "Stay" sat at number one on the UK singles chart for 8 weeks and gave rock radio a song it still hasn't let go of, while "Goodbye Cruel World" came from the same record. All told, the duo landed a pair of top-ten albums and a run of top-forty singles.

It didn't hold. Detroit was out of the band in 1993, Fahey carried on alone and wound the whole thing up in 1996. She revived the name in 2009, and in 2019 the old partners patched it up for a tour, the singles "All the Queen's Horses" and "When She Finds You", and the EP Ride Again.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Shakespear's Sister on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Stay	976	19	#7	–	1992
2	Goodbye Cruel World	28	2	#75	–	1992

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1992Hormonally Yours2 charting songs

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2014	1787	Stay	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	1722	Stay	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	1651	Stay	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	1584	Stay	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	1553	Stay	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	1531	Stay	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	1530	Stay	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007	482	Stay	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)
2005	181	Stay	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	183	Stay	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	183	Stay	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2002	183	Stay	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2001	813	Stay	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2000	181	Stay	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	181	Stay	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1995	453	Stay	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1992	7	Stay	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992
1992	106	Goodbye Cruel World	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992
1992	7	Stay	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992
1992	75	Goodbye Cruel World	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992
1992	332	Stay	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992)

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