Artist · chart history
Gang of Youths
Band Sydney Formed 2013
Gang of Youths formed in 2013 in Sydney. Gang of Youths has 41 chart appearances on 29 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 2015–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Let Me Down Easy”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Gang of Youths most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2021.
Sydney's Gang of Youths are David Le'aupepe's band first and foremost: he founded it, writes the songs and sings them like each one might be his last, with Jung Kim on guitar and keys since the beginning, Donnie Borzestowski on drums since 2014 and Tom Hobden adding violin, rhythm guitar and keyboards since 2020. Their 2015 debut, The Positions, drew a clutch of ARIA nominations and climbed to 5 in Australia, and "Magnolia", the song that broke them, went platinum in 2018.
Go Farther in Lightness, in 2017, was the big swing, a sprawling, heart-on-sleeve rock record that entered the Australian chart at number one and won 4 ARIA Awards, among them Album of the Year, Best Group and Best Rock Album, with the band sharing Producer of the Year with Adrian Breakspear. "Let Me Down Easy", "The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows" and "What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out?" gave it anthems to spare, and the Say Yes to Life tour that followed in 2018 broke records across Australia.
angel in realtime. arrived in 2022, led by "The Angel of 8th Ave.", with "In the Wake of Your Leave" and "The Man Himself" among its high points. It went to number one at home and 10 in the UK and won Album of the Year at the J Awards, and an acoustic companion EP, Immolation Tape, came out that May.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Gang of Youths on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let Me Down Easy | 6 | #2 | – | 2017 | |
| 2 | The Angel of 8th Ave. | 6 | #6 | – | 2021 | |
| 3 | In The Wake Of Your Leave | 7 | #9 | – | 2022 | |
| 4 | The Heart Is A Muscle | 5 | #37 | – | 2018 | |
| 5 | Magnolia | 3 | #6 | – | 2015 | |
| 6 | The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows | 3 | #5 | – | 2017 | |
| 7 | Blood (originally by The Middle East) | 1 | #6 | – | – | |
| 8 | What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out? | 1 | #10 | – | 2017 | |
| 9 | The Angel of 8th Avenue | 2 | #70 | – | 2021 | |
| 10 | Why Does It Always Rain on Me? (originally by Travis) | 1 | #39 | – | – | |
| 11 | Blood (Like a Version) | 1 | #41 | – | 2017 | |
| 12 | Strange Diseases | 1 | #50 | – | 2016 | |
| 13 | angel of 8th ave. | 2 | #51 | – | 2021 | |
| 14 | The Man Himself | 1 | #57 | – | 2021 | |
| 15 | All My Friends (originally by LCD Soundsystem) | 1 | #75 | – | – |
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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