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Baker Boy
Solo artist Darwin Australia
Baker Boy is an artist from Darwin. Baker Boy has 8 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2017–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Marryuna”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #17. The station that charted Baker Boy most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2017.
Baker Boy, born Danzal James Baker in 1996 and hailing from Darwin, is a Yolngu rapper and dancer who switches between English and Yolŋu Matha in the same breath, and makes it sound like the most natural thing in the world. Hip-hop is the frame, but there's plenty of R&B and soul in the grooves, and a sense of fun that makes any language barrier beside the point.
"Marryuna" and "Cloud 9" arrived in 2017, "Mr La Di Da Di" kept the momentum going, and in 2018 he took home two National Indigenous Music Awards and was named Male Artist of the Year at the National Dreamtime Awards. The following year he was Young Australian of the Year, and "Cool as Hell", a strutting, sunny piece of swagger, picked up several nominations at the 2019 ARIA Awards. He also put his own spin on Blur's "Song 2".
His debut album Gela arrived in October 2021, with "Cool as Hell", "Meditjin" and "My Mind" on board, and it paid off in a big way: at the 2022 ARIA Music Awards he won five of the seven categories he was up for. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2021, and he stands among the most prominent Aboriginal Australian rappers working today.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Baker Boy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marryuna | 1 | #17 | – | 2017 | |
| 2 | Wish You Well | 1 | #31 | – | 2022 | |
| 3 | Cool as Hell | 1 | #44 | – | 2019 | |
| 4 | Song 2 (originally by Blur) | 1 | #47 | – | – | |
| 5 | Mr La Di Da Di | 1 | #51 | – | 2018 | |
| 6 | Cloud 9 | 1 | #76 | – | 2017 | |
| 7 | My Mind | 1 | #88 | – | 2021 | |
| 8 | Meditjin | 1 | #98 | – | 2019 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 47 | Song 2 (originally by Blur) | Triple J Hottest 100 of Like a Version (2023) |
| 2022 | 31 | Wish You Well | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2022 |
| 2021 | 88 | My Mind | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2021 |
| 2019 | 44 | Cool as Hell | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019 |
| 2019 | 98 | Meditjin | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019 |
| 2018 | 51 | Mr La Di Da Di | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018 |
| 2017 | 17 | Marryuna | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017 |
| 2017 | 76 | Cloud 9 | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017 |
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