Artist · chart history
A.B. Original
Band Australia Hip-Hop
A.B. Original formed in Australia. A.B. Original has 3 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2016–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Dumb Things (originally by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls)”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #5. The station that charted A.B. Original most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
A.B. Original stands for Always Black, Original, and the name is the manifesto. The duo pairs Briggs, a Yorta Yorta rapper, with Trials, a Ngarrindjeri producer, and their music is political from the first bar to the last: furious, blunt and built to provoke a reaction, whichever way it cuts.
Reclaim Australia, their 2016 album, carries "January 26", beats hitting hard enough to make comfortable listeners squirm, and the duo took home the Australian Music Prize. Their take on Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls' "Dumb Things", cut for a Like a Version session, turned a familiar song into something with a new sting.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by A.B. Original on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dumb Things (originally by Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls) | 1 | #5 | – | – | |
| 2 | January 26 | 1 | #16 | – | 2016 | |
| 3 | Dumb Things (Like a Version) | 1 | #45 | – | 2016 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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