Artist · chart history
Cut Copy
Band Melbourne Australia Formed 2001
Cut Copy formed in 2001 in Melbourne, Australia. Cut Copy has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Lights and Music”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #15. The station that charted Cut Copy most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2008.
Cut Copy began in Melbourne in 2001 as Dan Whitford's home-recording project, a way to make synth-pop at home, before growing into a full band with Tim Hoey on guitar, Mitchell Scott on drums and Ben Browning on bass. Whitford still sings and plays guitar and keyboards, and the sound he built is a bright, glittering mix of electropop, alternative dance and indietronica.
Their second album, In Ghost Colours, released in 2008, was the breakthrough, and it's easy to hear why. "Lights and Music" is a rush of shimmering synths and chopping guitar, a dance-floor anthem that feels built for strobe lights, and "Hearts on Fire" is sleek, euphoric disco with a big, yearning heart.
Zonoscope followed in 2011, and "Need You Now" is a slow-building epic, all layered synths and a pulse that keeps swelling until it takes over the whole room.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cut Copy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lights and Music | 3 | #15 | – | 2008 | |
| 2 | Hearts on Fire | 1 | #39 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | Need You Now | 1 | #533 | – | – | |
| 4 | Where I'm Going | 1 | #98 | – | 2010 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 533 | Need You Now | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time |
| 2022 | 498 | Lights and Music | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s |
| 2019 | 506 | Lights and Music | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time |
| 2010 | 98 | Where I'm Going | WFPK Top 100 Songs of 2010 |
| 2008 | 15 | Lights and Music | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2008 |
| 2007 | 39 | Hearts on Fire | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007 |
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