Song · Mallrat
“Charlie” by Mallrat
From the album Driving Music (2019)
“Charlie” by Mallrat appears on 7 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2019 and 2026. It was first released in 2019 on the album Driving Music. Its best result is #3 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #309 alternative song of 2020.
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Mallrat named "Charlie" after her family's dog, which is about as disarming as a title gets, but the song she built around it reaches further: by her own account it's mostly about loving people with everything you've got, whether or not that love ever comes back. The Australian artist wrote it with Big Taste and put it out in August 2019 as the lead single from Driving Music, her third EP.
Triple J's listeners took it to heart in the station's Hottest 100 for 2019, and that push carried it onto the ARIA chart at 50 the following February. It even crossed over into video games: that November, Mallrat revealed she'd been asked to record a version in Simlish for The Sims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019 | 100 |
| 2020 | 79 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2020 | 103 |
| 2020 | 93 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2020 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 79 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020) | 100 |
| 2022 | 194 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2024 | 410 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2026 | 74 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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