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“It's Nice to Be Alive” by Ball Park Music
From the album Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs (2011)
“It's Nice to Be Alive” by Ball Park Music appears on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2011 and 2025. It was first released in 2011 on the album Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs. Its best result is #17 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #331 alternative song of 2011.
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"It's Nice to Be Alive" came from Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs, Ball Park Music's 2011 debut, the third single the Australian indie rockers pulled from it, and it's a song whose title does most of the pitching: big-hearted, sunny, arms flung wide. Triple J listeners voted it in at number 31 in that year's Hottest 100.
It kept growing afterwards. The song went platinum in Australia in 2021, got a limited 12-inch vinyl pressing for Record Store Day in 2023, and in 2025 it landed at 49 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs, proof that it has outlasted its moment.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 31 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 17 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020) | 100 |
| 2025 | 49 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs (2025) | 100 |
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