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Matt Corby
Solo artist Sydney Australia
Matt Corby is an artist from Sydney. Matt Corby has 11 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2011–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Brother”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Matt Corby most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Matt Corby grew up a Sydney kid with a guitar, a piano and a voice that could go from a hush to a roar in a single breath, and in 2011 he stopped being a secret. Into the Flame, his fourth EP, was the breakthrough: it climbed to No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart and piled up platinum certifications, 6 of them by April 2012.
The engine was "Brother", a slow-building, stomp-and-holler folk-soul number that starts as a lament and ends up as a gospel shout, and it won the ARIA Award for Song of the Year. He did it again with "Resolution" in 2013, which took the same award. In between, his covers of the Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" and Tina Arena's "Chains" showed how far he could pull a song into his own warm, cavernous corner.
The albums came later and slower. Telluric arrived in 2016 with "Monday", then Rainbow Valley in 2018, Everything's Fine in 2023 and Tragic Magic in 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Matt Corby on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brother | 4 | #3 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Resolution | 2 | #8 | – | 2013 | |
| 3 | Lonely Boy (originally by The Black Keys) | 1 | #48 | – | – | |
| 4 | Monday | 1 | #53 | – | 2015 | |
| 5 | Chains (originally by Tina Arena) | 1 | #60 | – | – | |
| 6 | Lonely Boy (Like a Version) | 1 | #69 | – | 2012 | |
| 7 | Big Smoke | 1 | #187 | – | 2023 |
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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