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Shemekia Copeland
Solo artist Harlem United States
Shemekia Copeland is an artist from Harlem. Shemekia Copeland has 9 chart appearances on 8 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Never Going Back To Memphis”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #19. The station that charted Shemekia Copeland most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2009.
Shemekia Copeland, born in Harlem in 1979, is an electric blues singer with a voice built for the back row, big, brassy and in no mood to be ignored. She came up on Alligator Records in 1998 and moved to Telarc in 2009, and she has kept at it ever since, with 12 albums to her name.
"Never Going Back to Memphis" is a tough, simmering slice of rhythm and blues from her Telarc days, the kind of song where the band lays down a slow, heavy groove and she takes it apart line by line. The trophies have piled up: nine Blues Music Awards, five Blues Blast Music Awards and a Libera Award for Best Blues Record, and in 2024 she was up for three awards at the 67th Grammys, including Best Contemporary Blues Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Shemekia Copeland on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never Going Back To Memphis | 2 | #19 | – | 2009 | |
| 2 | Too Far to Be Gone | 1 | #25 | – | 2022 | |
| 3 | Mississippi Mud | 1 | #332 | – | – | |
| 4 | Who Stole My Radio | 1 | #585 | – | – | |
| 5 | It's 2 a.m. | 2 | #692 | – | – | |
| 6 | Ain't Gonna Be Your Tattoo | 1 | #134 | – | 2012 |
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 | 25 | Too Far to Be Gone | WEXT Top 97 of 2022 |
| 2016 | 332 | Mississippi Mud | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 |
| 2016 | 809 | It's 2 a.m. | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 |
| 2013 | 104 | Never Going Back To Memphis | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) |
| 2012 | 134 | Ain't Gonna Be Your Tattoo | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 |
| 2009 | 19 | Never Going Back To Memphis | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009 |
| 2009 | 585 | Who Stole My Radio | WYEP 913 Essential Songs |
| 2009 | 692 | It's 2 a.m. | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade |
| 2006 | 869 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
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