Artist · chart history
Operator Please
Band Gold Coast Australia Active 2005–2011
Operator Please formed in 2005 in Gold Coast, Australia and was active until 2011. Operator Please has 2 chart appearances on 1 radio countdown from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2007. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Just a Song About Ping Pong”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #27. The station that charted Operator Please most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2007.
Operator Please formed on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 2005, and they played new wave pop like a bunch of kids who'd raided their older siblings' record collection and then drunk all the red cordial. The final lineup had Amandah Wilkinson singing and playing guitar, Tim Commandeur on drums, Chris Holland on keyboards, Ashley McConnell on bass and Taylor Henderson on violin, which gives you some idea of how gleefully overstuffed the sound got.
"Just a Song About Ping Pong", from the On the Prowl EP, is the one that made their name: a frantic sugar rush of a song that brought home an ARIA Music Award in 2007. Virgin Records put out their album Yes Yes Vindictive in 2007, and "Get What You Want" kept the spiky energy rolling. By 2011 the band had wound up, but the ping pong song still bounces.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Operator Please on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just a Song About Ping Pong | 1 | #27 | – | 2007 | |
| 2 | Get What You Want | 1 | #77 | – | 2007 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 27 | Just a Song About Ping Pong | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007 |
| 2007 | 77 | Get What You Want | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007 |
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