Song · Genesis Owusu
“Gold Chains” by Genesis Owusu
From the album Smiling with No Teeth (2021)
“Gold Chains” by Genesis Owusu appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2021 and 2025. It was first released in 2021 on the album Smiling with No Teeth. Its best result is #75 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #380 alternative song of 2021.
"Gold Chains" came out in early 2021 as the fourth single from Smiling with No Teeth, the debut album by Ghanaian-Australian artist Genesis Owusu, and it goes right back to the start of the project: Owusu said it was among the first songs written for the record and that its words set the tone for everything that followed. The Fader's David Renshall pegged it as crunchy funk-rap in the debt of Prince and André 3000, a party on the surface with a hollow middle, where the good life of success and adoration turns out to be empty.
The song took first place in the 2021 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition, and in January 2022 Owusu brought it to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 75 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2021 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 829 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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