Artist · chart history
Powderfinger
Band Brisbane Australia Active 1989–2010 Australian rock band
Powderfinger formed in 1989 in Brisbane, Australia and was active until 2010. Powderfinger has 42 chart appearances on 23 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 1996–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “My Happiness”, which appears on 13 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 2 countdowns. The station that charted Powderfinger most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 29 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
Powderfinger formed in Brisbane in 1989 and spent the next two decades as one of the biggest rock bands Australia ever produced. From 1992 on the lineup never changed: Bernard Fanning singing, Darren Middleton and Ian Haug on guitars, John Collins on bass and Jon Coghill on drums.
Double Allergic, with "Pick You Up" and "DAF", had the grit, but Internationalist in 1998 was where they found their stride and their first number-one album at home. Then came an absurd run: Odyssey Number Five, Vulture Street, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence and Golden Rule all went to number one too. Odyssey Number Five is the big one, shipping eight times platinum on the strength of "My Happiness" and "These Days", songs where Fanning's warm, aching voice rides over guitars that know when to roar and when to hang back. Vulture Street brought the rock back with "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind" and "Sunsets". Only Silverchair has won more ARIA Awards.
They took a break in 2005, toured the country with Silverchair in 2007, and lent their shows to causes, from tsunami relief to Reconciliation Australia. In 2010 they decided they had nothing left to say, played the Sunsets Farewell Tour and bowed out that November. They came back just once, for a charity livestream in 2020.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Powderfinger on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Happiness | 13 | #1 | 1 | 2001 | |
| 2 | These Days | 5 | #1 | 1 | 1999 | |
| 3 | On My Mind | 5 | #4 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | Not My Kinda Scene | 1 | #3 | – | 2000 | |
| 5 | Pick You Up | 1 | #6 | – | 1996 | |
| 6 | Sunsets | 1 | #7 | – | 2003 | |
| 7 | The Day You Come | 1 | #8 | – | 1998 | |
| 8 | Bless My Soul | 1 | #9 | – | 2004 | |
| 9 | Love Your Way | 1 | #10 | – | 2003 | |
| 10 | Lost and Running | 1 | #15 | – | 2007 | |
| 11 | DAF | 1 | #18 | – | 1996 | |
| 12 | Already Gone | 1 | #25 | – | 1999 | |
| 13 | Living Type | 1 | #32 | – | 1996 | |
| 14 | Don't Wanna Be Left Out | 1 | #46 | – | 1998 | |
| 15 | All of the Dreamers | 1 | #49 | – | 2009 | |
| 16 | I Don't Remember | 1 | #66 | – | 2007 | |
| 17 | JC | 1 | #66 | – | 1997 | |
| 18 | Good-Day Ray | 1 | #68 | – | 1999 | |
| 19 | Process This | 1 | #68 | – | 2004 | |
| 20 | Rockin' Rocks | 1 | #76 | – | 2003 | |
| 21 | Stumblin' | 1 | #77 | – | 2003 | |
| 22 | Passenger | 1 | #100 | – | 1999 |
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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