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“Southern Sun” by Boy & Bear
From the EP Harlequin Dream Sampler (2013)
“Southern Sun” by Boy & Bear appears on 17 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 2013 and 2026. It was first released in 2013 on the EP Harlequin Dream Sampler. Its best result is #2 on the Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2014.
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"Southern Sun" was the lead single from Harlequin Dream, the second album from Australian indie rockers Boy & Bear, and it arrived in June 2013 after the band first gave it to triple J. It also went out that year on the Harlequin Dream Sampler EP.
The band pointed to Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac and Paul Simon as the inspiration, and you can hear them aiming for that kind of open-road warmth and easy, sunlit melody rather than anything jagged. It reached number 63 on the ARIA Charts, and by July 2014 they were playing it on Conan.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 99 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2013 | 103 |
| 2013 | 41 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2013 | 100 |
| 2014 | 10 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2014 | 97 |
| 2014 | 50 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2014 | 104 |
| 2014 | 14 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2014 | 50 |
| 2014 | 19 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2014 | 107 |
| 2014 | 92 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014 | 200 |
| 2014 | 2 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2014 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 330 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2018 | 655 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2019 | 152 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2019 | 152 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2022 | 80 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 1118 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 834 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2026 | 92 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
| 2026 | 136 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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