Artist · chart history
Ball Park Music
Band Brisbane Australia Formed 2008
Ball Park Music formed in 2008 in Brisbane, Australia. Ball Park Music has 19 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2011–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “It's Nice to Be Alive”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #17. The station that charted Ball Park Music most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 19 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2012.
Ball Park Music are a Brisbane 5-piece, Sam Cromack, Jennifer Boyce, Paul Furness and the brothers Dean and Daniel Hanson, and since forming in 2008 they have made some of the sunniest, cheekiest indie pop in Australia. The early EP Rolling on the Floor, Laughing Ourselves to Sleep set the tone, and their 2011 debut album, Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs, with the grinning, gang-vocal singalong of "It's Nice to Be Alive", got a nomination for Australian Album of the Year at the J Awards.
Museum followed in 2012 and debuted at number 9 on the ARIA chart. Puddinghead gave them a platinum single in "She Only Loves Me When I'm There", and Every Night the Same Dream took a psychedelic detour before Good Mood, in 2018, brought them back to the bright stuff with "Exactly How You Are" and 3 ARIA Award nominations.
Their self-titled 2020 album, with "Cherub", went to number 2 on the ARIA chart and won Album of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards. Weirder & Weirder in 2022 was nominated for Best Independent Album and Best Rock Album at the ARIAs, and Like Love, in 2025, came with "Please Don't Move to Melbourne", a title only a Brisbane band could write.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Ball Park Music on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's Nice to Be Alive | 3 | #17 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Cherub | 1 | #4 | – | 2020 | |
| 3 | Stars in My Eyes | 1 | #8 | – | 2022 | |
| 4 | Please Don't Move to Melbourne | 1 | #10 | – | 2025 | |
| 5 | Exactly How You Are | 1 | #18 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | She Only Loves Me When I'm There | 1 | #19 | – | 2014 | |
| 7 | Sunscreen | 1 | #21 | – | 2021 | |
| 8 | Coming Down | 1 | #23 | – | 2012 | |
| 9 | Surrender | 1 | #27 | – | 2012 | |
| 10 | All I Want Is You | 1 | #38 | – | 2011 | |
| 11 | The Perfect Life Does Not Exist | 1 | #39 | – | 2018 | |
| 12 | Like Love | 1 | #43 | – | 2024 | |
| 13 | Paranoid Android (originally by Radiohead) | 1 | #50 | – | – | |
| 14 | My Happiness (originally by Powderfinger) | 1 | #53 | – | – | |
| 15 | Everything Is Shit Except My Friendship with You | 1 | #58 | – | 2014 | |
| 16 | Day & Age | 1 | #63 | – | 2020 | |
| 17 | Trippin' The Light Fantastic | 1 | #99 | – | 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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