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Internationalist by Powderfinger
Internationalist is an album by Powderfinger, released in 1998. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Day You Come”, on 1 list with a best position of #8.
Internationalist, Powderfinger's third studio album, came out on Polydor on 7 September 1998, and the Brisbane five-piece used the momentum of Double Allergic to stretch out. It's routinely called their most adventurous record, and you can hear them poking at the edges of their big, burly guitar rock: Bernard Fanning's warm bellow up front, Darren Middleton and Ian Haug trading guitar lines, John Collins and Jon Coghill holding down the bottom end.
It went to No. 1 on the ARIA albums chart that month, went five times platinum and collected four ARIA Awards, Album of the Year among them. All four singles, "The Day You Come", "Don't Wanna Be Left Out/Good-Day Ray", "Already Gone" and "Passenger", made Triple J's Hottest 100 across two straight years. The one thing it couldn't do was break the band overseas.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Internationalist on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Day You Come | 1 | #8 | – | 1998 | |
| 2 | Already Gone | 1 | #25 | – | 1999 | |
| 3 | Don't Wanna Be Left Out | 1 | #46 | – | 1998 | |
| 4 | Good-Day Ray | 1 | #68 | – | 1999 | |
| 5 | Passenger | 1 | #100 | – | 1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.