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Courtney Barnett
Solo artist Sydney Australia
Courtney Barnett is an artist from Sydney. Courtney Barnett has 141 chart appearances on 78 radio countdowns from 19 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Avant Gardener”, which appears on 23 lists with a best position of #3. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Courtney Barnett most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 17 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2015.
Courtney Barnett writes the way people actually think: in loops, detours and sudden punchlines, sung in a deadpan drawl over guitars that can go from lazy strum to fuzzed-out roar inside a verse. Born in 1987, the Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist first drew notice with the EP I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris in 2012, and the world outside Australia caught on when The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas gathered her early work in 2013. "Avant Gardener", from How to Carve a Carrot Into a Rose, was the calling card, a shaggy, slacker-paced ramble that somehow never loses the listener.
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit arrived in 2015 to a wave of acclaim, with "Pedestrian at Best" snarling and "Depreston" and "Elevator Operator" spinning everyday detail into something sharp and funny. It won her 4 ARIA Awards from 8 nominations and a Grammy nod for Best New Artist.
She cut Lotta Sea Lice with Kurt Vile in 2017, came back louder and rawer on Tell Me How You Really Feel in 2018, and has since added Things Take Time, Take Time in 2021 and Creature of Habit in 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Courtney Barnett on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avant Gardener | 23 | #3 | – | 2014 | |
| 2 | Pedestrian At Best | 22 | #4 | – | 2015 | |
| 3 | Nameless, Faceless | 10 | #20 | – | 2018 | |
| 4 | Stay In Your Lane | 9 | #10 | – | 2025 | |
| 5 | Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party | 9 | #16 | – | 2015 | |
| 6 | Depreston | 9 | #17 | – | 2015 | |
| 7 | Write a List Of Things to Look Forward To | 9 | #22 | – | 2021 | |
| 8 | Charity | 9 | #18 | – | 2018 | |
| 9 | Dead Fox | 5 | #36 | – | 2015 | |
| 10 | Rae Street | 6 | #32 | – | 2021 | |
| 11 | Pickles from the Jar | 4 | #51 | – | 2014 | |
| 12 | Three Packs A Day | 3 | #29 | – | 2016 | |
| 13 | Everybody Here Hates You | 5 | #42 | – | 2019 | |
| 14 | History Eraser | 3 | #72 | – | 2014 | |
| 15 | The Avant Gardener | 1 | #1 | 1 | 2014 | |
| 16 | Rae St. | 1 | #116 | – | – | |
| 17 | Elevator Operator | 3 | #75 | – | 2015 | |
| 18 | If I Don't Hear From You Tonight | 2 | #56 | – | 2022 | |
| 19 | New Speedway Boogie | 1 | #284 | – | – | |
| 20 | How to Boil an Egg | 1 | #60 | – | 2017 | |
| 21 | 3 Packs A Day | 2 | #771 | – | – | |
| 22 | David | 1 | #127 | – | 2014 | |
| 23 | City Looks Pretty | 1 | #68 | – | 2018 | |
| 24 | Anonymous Club | 1 | #155 | – | 2014 | |
| 25 | Need a Little Time | 1 | #82 | – | 2018 |
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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