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Chet Faker
Solo artist Melbourne Australia
Chet Faker is an artist from Melbourne. Chet Faker has 26 chart appearances on 23 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Low”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #4. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Chet Faker most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Chet Faker was the stage name of Melbourne singer and songwriter Nicholas James Murphy, born in 1988, and his 2012 EP Thinking in Textures introduced a sound made for late nights: smoky soul vocals, sparse keyboards and sampled beats with a trip-hop hush. "I'm Into You" was on it, and it won Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards, where he was also named Breakthrough Artist of the Year. His slowed-down cover of Blackstreet's "No Diggity" ended up soundtracking a 2013 Super Bowl commercial for Beck's Sapphire.
The debut album, Built on Glass, arrived in April 2014 and debuted at number one on the ARIA chart. "Talk Is Cheap" is the one everyone knows, a lazy, smoky groove with Murphy crooning like he's talking himself out of something, and "Gold", "1998" and "Melt" show off the range, from warm, loping soul to glossier, club-ready pulse. He also covered Sonia Dada's "(Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good".
In September 2016 he dropped the Chet Faker name and started releasing music as Nick Murphy, including the Missing Link EP in 2017, the album Run Fast Sleep Naked in April 2019, and a surprise instrumental set, Music for Silence, first released through the Calm meditation app in March 2020. That October he brought Chet Faker back with the single "Low", and Hotel Surrender followed in 2021.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Chet Faker on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Low | 9 | #4 | – | 2021 | |
| 2 | Talk Is Cheap | 4 | #1 | 1 | 2014 | |
| 3 | Gold | 6 | #7 | – | 2014 | |
| 4 | 1998 | 2 | #8 | – | 2014 | |
| 5 | (Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good (originally by Sonia Dada) | 1 | #9 | – | – | |
| 6 | (Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good (Like a Version) | 1 | #21 | – | 2014 | |
| 7 | I'm Into You | 1 | #24 | – | 2012 | |
| 8 | Melt | 1 | #65 | – | 2013 | |
| 9 | This Time for Real | 1 | #101 | – | 2025 |
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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