Artist · chart history
Angus and Julia Stone
Band Sydney Australia Formed 2006
Angus and Julia Stone formed in 2006 in Sydney, Australia. Angus and Julia Stone has 20 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Big Jet Plane”, which appears on 4 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Angus and Julia Stone most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 15 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Angus & Julia Stone are a brother and sister from Sydney who started making music together in 2006, and their records sound like a whispered conversation on a back porch that happens to have a very good band in the next room. Their 2007 debut, A Book Like This, gave us "Wasted" and "The Beast", two hushed, folk-rooted songs that sound like they were recorded with the lights down low.
Down the Way, in 2010, is where it all came together. "Big Jet Plane" floats on a drowsy vocal and a loping, sun-dazed strum, and "And the Boys" and "Hold On" fill out the album's gorgeous, unhurried mood. That year the ARIA Music Awards nominated them nine times and they walked off with five trophies, Album of the Year among them, while "Big Jet Plane" was named Single of the Year.
The self-titled Angus & Julia Stone followed in 2014 with "Heart Beats Slow" and "A Heartbreak", and Snow arrived in 2017 with its title track and "Chateau". They scored the 2021 video game Life is Strange: True Colors, and kept going with Cape Forestier (2024) and Karaoke Bar (2026). Their cover of Drake's "Passionfruit" shows how easily that dreamy folk sound can swallow a pop song whole.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Angus and Julia Stone on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Jet Plane | 4 | #1 | 1 | 2010 | |
| 2 | Chateau | 3 | #3 | – | 2017 | |
| 3 | A Heartbreak | 3 | #37 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | Wasted | 1 | #31 | – | 2007 | |
| 5 | And the Boys | 1 | #40 | – | 2009 | |
| 6 | Paper Airplane | 1 | #43 | – | 2006 | |
| 7 | The Beast | 1 | #45 | – | 2007 | |
| 8 | Heart Beats Slow | 1 | #62 | – | 2014 | |
| 9 | Hold On | 1 | #62 | – | 2010 | |
| 10 | Grizzly Bear | 1 | #77 | – | 2014 | |
| 11 | Passionfruit (originally by Drake) | 1 | #77 | – | – | |
| 12 | Snow | 1 | #98 | – | 2017 | |
| 13 | You're the One That I Want | 1 | #104 | – | 2014 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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