Legacy
Heart has sold over 30 million records worldwide, had 20 Top 40 singles, six Top Ten albums and four Grammy nominations. Heart achieved Top 10 albums on the Billboard charts in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s, with chart singles in each decade. This span of over four decades gives them the longest span of Top 10 albums by a female fronted band.
Heart was ranked number 57 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock", and number 40 on VH1's "100 Greatest women in rock and roll". In 2009 the Wilson sisters were awarded ASCAP's Founders Award in recognition of their songwriting career. In 2011 Heart was named as one of the 2012 nominees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but was not selected for induction. The band's nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described the Wilson sisters as the first women to front a hard rock band, and "pioneers ... that inspired women to pick up an electric guitar or start a band". Jake Brown described the band as beginning "a revolution for women in music ... breaking genre barriers and garnering critical acclaim".
In addition to their own recording careers, the Wilson sisters have played a role on the Seattle music scene. Among the artists that have used their Bad Animals Studio are Neil Young, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains.
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