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Flume
Solo artist Sydney Australia Australian DJ and producer
Flume is an artist from Sydney. Flume has 22 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Never Be like You”, which appears on 3 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 2 countdowns. The station that charted Flume most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 21 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Flume is Harley Edward Streten, a Sydney producer and DJ born in 1991 who builds his tracks in Ableton Live, and the future bass he helped push into the mainstream sounds like a pop song fed through a woodchipper and glued back together in slow motion: warped synths, stuttering vocals and drops that hit like a sinking lift. His self-titled debut in 2012 topped the Australian albums chart and went double platinum there, with "Holdin On", "Sleepless" and "On Top" doing the damage.
Remixes for Lorde, Sam Smith, Arcade Fire, Hermitude and Disclosure spread the word, and Skin (2016) cashed in: another chart-topper at home, a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album, and in "Never Be like You" a lead single that carried him around the world and picked up a nomination for Best Dance Recording. "Say It" and "Smoke & Retribution" showed the album had range, and 2 Skin Companion EPs followed.
He has since gone looser and stranger, with the Hi This Is Flume mixtape in 2019, the Quits EP and its track "Friends", and his third album Palaces in 2022, home to "Say Nothing". A run of mixtapes followed in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Flume on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never Be like You | 3 | #1 | 1 | 2016 | |
| 2 | Holdin On | 2 | #4 | – | 2012 | |
| 3 | Say Nothing | 2 | #1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| 4 | Rushing Back | 1 | #2 | – | 2019 | |
| 5 | Sleepless | 2 | #12 | – | 2012 | |
| 6 | Say It | 1 | #8 | – | 2016 | |
| 7 | Some Minds | 1 | #24 | – | 2015 | |
| 8 | Friends | 1 | #30 | – | 2019 | |
| 9 | Shooting Stars (Like a Version) | 1 | #30 | – | 2022 | |
| 10 | Smoke & Retribution | 1 | #37 | – | 2016 | |
| 11 | On Top | 2 | #67 | – | 2012 | |
| 12 | Slugger 1.4 (2014 Export.WAV) | 1 | #50 | – | 2022 | |
| 13 | My Boo (originally by Ghost Town DJ's) | 1 | #61 | – | – | |
| 14 | Let You Know | 1 | #81 | – | 2019 | |
| 15 | Hyperreal | 1 | #90 | – | 2017 | |
| 16 | Lose It | 1 | #95 | – | 2016 |
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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