Album · Vance Joy
Nation of Two by Vance Joy
Nation of Two is an album by Vance Joy, released in 2018. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 26 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Lay it On Me”, on 14 lists with a best position of #9.
Nation of Two, Vance Joy's second album, landed in 2018 as the follow-up to Dream Your Life Away, and it's a gentle, sun-warmed folk-pop record from the Australian singer born James Keogh, the voice behind "Riptide". The title does the explaining: a couple so wrapped up in each other that their whole world shrinks to the bed they share or the car they're riding in, an idea he borrowed from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Mother Night.
The songs keep things intimate, all light strums and easy choruses. "Lay It On Me" was the one the countdowns liked best, with "Saturday Sun" and "We're Going Home" close behind, and back home it took Best Adult Contemporary Album at the 2018 ARIA Music Awards.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Nation of Two on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lay it On Me | 14 | #9 | – | 2017–2026 | |
| 2 | Saturday Sun | 11 | #20 | – | 2018–2019 | |
| 3 | We're Going Home | 1 | #53 | – | 2018 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.