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Shannon Brenda Greene (born May 2, 1958), better known by the mononym Shannon, is an American songwriter, recording artist and singer of high energy and dance-pop music. She is best known for her million-selling record single "Let the Music Play". Her albums include Let the Music Play (1984), followed by Do You Wanna Get Away (1985) and Love Goes All the Way (1986). In 1999, Shannon appeared in a segment of VH1's One-Hit Wonders, and returned to music with her fourth album, The Best is Yet to Come, released in 2000. This was followed by a compilation album, Let The Music Play: The Best of Shannon (2004). Shannon's most recent album is A Beauty Returns (2007). In 2016, Carnival Cruise Lines ran a current national television campaign featuring music performed by Shannon. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 86th most successful dance artist of all-time.

Below is a list of Shannon songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Mirage 99810
chart position: RandB #2, US #8, US dance #1, UK #14
written by: Chris Barbosa & Ed Chisolm
album: Let the Music Play
comments: [disco dance]
Shannon Let the Music Play
1983 Mirage
2 record label: Imperial 66110
chart position: RandB #40, US #7
written by: Burt Bacharach & Hal David
album: This Is Jackie DeShannon
comments: [pop soul]
Jackie DeShannon What The World Needs Now Is Love
1965 Imperial
3 record label: Mirage 79 69410
chart position: US dance #1, RandB #6, UK #24, US #46
written by: Chris Barbosa & Ed Chisolm
album: Let the Music Play
Shannon Give Me Tonight
1984 Mirage
4 record label: Manifesto 37
chart position: UK #16, US Dance #1
written by: Todd Terry and Shannon Greene
comments: [dance, house]
Todd Terry featuring Shannon It's Over Love
1997 Manifesto
5 record label: Mirage 096892
chart position: US dance #1, RandB #13, US #49
written by: Ann Godwin & Chris Barbosa
album: Do You Wanna Get Away
comments: [disco dance]
Shannon Do You Wanna Get Away
1985 Mirage
6 record label: Mirage 96937
chart position: RandB #48, US Dance #3
written by: Ann Godwin and Chris Barbosa
album: Let the Music Play
Shannon My Heart's Divided
1984 Mirage
7 record label: Club 3 (UK)
chart position: UK #25
written by: Ann Godwin, Curtis Josephs and Rob Kilgore
album: Let the Music Play
Shannon Sweet Somebody
1984 Club
8 record label: Mirage 99631
chart position: RandB #26, US #103, UK #46, US Dance #25
written by: Curtis Josephs and Ed Chisolm
album: Do You Wanna Get Away
Shannon Stronger Together
1985 Mirage
9 record label: Mirage 890
chart position: RandB #68, UK #84
written by: Mick Jones [Foreigner]
album: Do You Wanna Get Away
Shannon Urgent
1985 Mirage
10 record label: Atlantic 89312
chart position: UK #91
written by: Russell Taylor [producer] and Shannon
album: Love Goes All the Way
Shannon Dancin'
1987 Atlantic
11 record label: X It
chart position: US Dance #25
written by: Ralf Kappmeier, Sascha Lappessen and Thomas Alisson
comments: [dance, trance]
Sash featuring Shannon Move Mania
1999 X It
12 record label: Atlantic 89352
chart position: RandB #82
written by: Allan Rich, Dorothy Csea Gazeley and Jeffrey Pescetto
album: Love Goes All the Way
Shannon Prove Me Right
1986 Atlantic
-- record label: Black Gold 3
Ronnie Shannon Sweet Games of Love
1972 Black Gold




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