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Young Modern by Silverchair
Young Modern is an album by Silverchair, released in 2007. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 19 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Straight Lines”, on 17 lists with a best position of #2.
Young Modern, Silverchair's fifth and last studio album, hit Australian shops on 31 March 2007 and reached America that July, with Daniel Johns and Nick Launay co-producing. The title is a nickname Van Dyke Parks gave Johns, and the record sounds like it: bright, restless and ambitious, a long way from the Newcastle trio's grunge beginnings, with Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou following Johns wherever his songs wanted to go.
"Straight Lines" is the glittering, radio-ready centerpiece, with "Reflections of a Sound", "If You Keep Losing Sleep" and "Mind Reader" also out as singles. It went straight to number one in Australia, making Silverchair the first band there with five albums in a row to do that, and it swept six ARIA Awards in 2007, Album of the Year and Single of the Year for "Straight Lines" among them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Young Modern on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight Lines | 17 | #2 | – | 2007–2025 | |
| 2 | If You Keep Losing Sleep | 1 | #30 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | Reflections of a Sound | 1 | #80 | – | 2007 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.