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Gretta Ray
Solo artist Melbourne Australia Australian indie pop singer‐songwriter
Gretta Ray is an artist from Melbourne. Gretta Ray has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2016–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Drive”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #27. The station that charted Gretta Ray most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Gretta Ray, born in Melbourne in 1998, was still a teenager when "Drive" turned her year around: in 2016 the song won her the national Triple J Unearthed competition and the Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition in one go.
Her early EPs, Elsewhere in 2016 and Here and Now in 2018, drew on indie folk, spare and intimate, with that clear voice doing most of the heavy lifting. By her debut album, Begin to Look Around, in 2021, she had gone all in on pop, and Positive Spin followed in 2023. Critics keep landing on the same thing: she writes the way people talk, saying exactly what she means, and the plainness is where the power comes from. Bernard Zuel called it "quietly grand pop", which gets it about right. Rock radio also caught her version of Gang of Youths' "The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Gretta Ray on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drive | 1 | #27 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows (originally by Gang of Youths) | 1 | #84 | – | – |
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 84 | The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows (originally by Gang of Youths) | Triple J Hottest 100 of Like a Version (2023) |
| 2016 | 27 | Drive | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2016 |
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