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Odyssey Number Five by Powderfinger
Odyssey Number Five is an album by Powderfinger, released in 2000. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 18 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “My Happiness”, on 13 lists and voted number one once.
Odyssey Number Five, Powderfinger's fourth studio album, came out on 4 September 2000 with producer Nick DiDia at the desk, and it's the Brisbane band at full stretch. Bernard Fanning sings, Darren Middleton and Ian Haug trade guitars, John Collins plays bass and Jon Coghill drums, and the songs are the tightest they'd written, the shortest album they had made, still chewing over the social, political and emotional questions of Internationalist.
"My Happiness" is the ache at its heart and "These Days" its quiet, glowing ballad, and the record sold by the truckload at home: seven times platinum, with an eighth platinum award in 2004. It took five ARIA Awards in 2001, including Highest Selling Album, Best Group and Best Rock Album, and it was the first Powderfinger record to crack the American charts, with the band touring North America hard behind it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Odyssey Number Five on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Happiness | 13 | #1 | 1 | 2000–2025 | |
| 2 | These Days | 5 | #1 | 1 | 1999–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.