Song · Alex Lloyd
“Amazing” by Alex Lloyd
From the album Watching Angels Mend (2001)
“Amazing” by Alex Lloyd appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2001 and 2018. It was first released in 2001 on the album Watching Angels Mend. Its best result is #1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #171 alternative song of 2001.
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Alex Lloyd's "Amazing" was the second single lifted from Watching Angels Mend, his second album, landing on 17 September 2001: a wistful, easy-rolling song that crept up on a whole country. Lloyd wrote it alone, and years later he explained it as a fond farewell to an older lover who had seen more of life than he had, a goodbye with the bitterness left out.
It climbed to 14 on the ARIA singles chart and went all the way to the top in New Zealand in March 2002. The industry noticed: it won Song of the Year at the 2002 APRA Awards and was up for Single of the Year and Highest Selling Single at that year's ARIAs, losing both to Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head". In 2018 Triple M's Ozzest 100, a list of the most Australian songs, ranked it 80.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001 | 100 |
| 2002 | 97 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 | 224 |
| 2003 | 56 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2003 | 196 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 80 | Triple M | Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018) | 100 |
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