Artist · chart history
Missy Higgins
Solo artist Melbourne Australia
Missy Higgins is an artist from Melbourne. Missy Higgins has 15 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Scar”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Missy Higgins most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 13 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Missy Higgins came out of Melbourne in 2003 with a piano, a guitar and a voice that could go from a whisper to a wail inside a single line. The Missy Higgins EP that year brought "The Special Two" and "Greed for Your Love", and the Scar EP in 2004 carried "Scar" and "Casualty". "Scar" won her the ARIA for Best Pop Release, one of 5 nominations she picked up that year.
Her debut album, The Sound of White, landed in 2004 and went to number one in Australia, all confessional, finely drawn songs like "Ten Days" and the title track, where heartbreak sounds more like clear-eyed reckoning than self-pity. The next year the ARIAs nominated her 7 more times and she took home 5. On a Clear Night followed in 2007, again a number-one album, with the sweeping "Steer" and the sunny "Peachy".
She has never been shy about other people's songs either, taking on Gotye's "Hearts a Mess" among others. Away from the music she campaigns for animal rights and the environment and tries to keep her tours carbon neutral, and in 2009 she stepped in front of the cameras for the first time in the musical film Bran Nue Dae, singing on its soundtrack too.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Missy Higgins on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scar | 2 | #2 | – | 2004 | |
| 2 | The Special Two | 2 | #31 | – | 2005 | |
| 3 | Ten Days | 1 | #6 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | Hearts a Mess (originally by Gotye) | 1 | #43 | – | – | |
| 5 | Stuff and Nonsense | 1 | #47 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | Casualty | 1 | #49 | – | 2004 | |
| 7 | Peachy | 1 | #51 | – | 2007 | |
| 8 | Steer | 1 | #53 | – | 2007 | |
| 9 | Greed For Your Love | 1 | #55 | – | 2003 | |
| 10 | One of Your Girls (Like a Version) | 1 | #66 | – | 2024 | |
| 11 | Hello Hello | 1 | #73 | – | 2012 | |
| 12 | The Sound of White | 1 | #74 | – | 2005 | |
| 13 | Where I Stood | 1 | #1025 | – | – |
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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