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Shawn Colvin
Solo artist Vermillion United States
Shawn Colvin is an artist from Vermillion. Shawn Colvin has 18 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1992–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Sunny Came Home”, which appears on 7 lists with a best position of #102. The station that charted Shawn Colvin most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1992.
Shawn Colvin, born in 1956 and hailing from Vermillion, paid her dues in folk and rock bands for years before a 1988 tour with Suzanne Vega got her signed to Columbia Records. Her debut, Steady On, arrived in 1989 and won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and songs like "Shotgun Down The Avalanche" showed off what she does best: crisp acoustic guitar, a clear, unshowy voice and writing sharp enough to cut glass.
Fat City, in 1992, with "I Don't Know Why" and "Round of Blues", and Cover Girl in 1994 each brought her another Grammy nomination. Then came A Few Small Repairs in 1996 and "Sunny Came Home", all lilting, hypnotic groove and quiet menace, which won both Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the Grammys. She also played all three of the original Lilith Fair tours, which brought her a whole new following.
She has kept at it since, from Whole New You in 2001 to These Four Walls and All Fall Down for Nonesuch, Uncovered in 2015 and The Starlighter in 2018, and she published a well-received memoir, Diamond in the Rough, in 2012. In 2016 she received the Americana Trailblazer Award.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Shawn Colvin on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunny Came Home | 7 | #102 | – | 1997 | |
| 2 | Shotgun Down The Avalanche | 5 | #419 | – | – | |
| 3 | Get Out of This House | 1 | #246 | – | – | |
| 4 | This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody) | 1 | #326 | – | – | |
| 5 | I Don't Know Why | 2 | #488 | – | – | |
| 6 | Round of Blues | 1 | #95 | – | 1992 |
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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