Artist · chart history
Savage Garden
Band Brisbane Australia Active 1994–2001
Savage Garden formed in 1994 in Brisbane, Australia and was active until 2001. Savage Garden has 5 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2018–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Truly Madly Deeply”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #513. The station that charted Savage Garden most often is Triple M (Australia (national network)), with 1 appearance.
Savage Garden were Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals, a Brisbane duo who took glossy, big-hearted pop rock around the world. Signed to John Woodruff's talent agency, they built their sound on lush synths, clean guitars and Hayes's sighing, swooping voice, pitched somewhere between heartbreak and a crush.
Their self-titled debut arrived in March 1997 and did everything a pop record can do: number one in Australia and Sweden, the top 10 in Britain and America, and a record ten ARIA Music Awards in 1997 for the album and its singles. "I Want You" and "To the Moon and Back" came first, then the slow, swooning "Truly Madly Deeply", all of them number-one hits. Affirmation followed in November 1999, the year "I Knew I Loved You" became another number one, and the two albums have sold twenty-three million copies between them. Columbia Records and Village Roadshow were the labels behind them.
They called it quits at the end of 2001. Hayes went solo, and Jones moved into record production and later became a real estate agent.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Savage Garden on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Truly Madly Deeply | 2 | #513 | – | – | |
| 2 | I Want You | 2 | #97 | – | – | |
| 3 | I Want You (Album Version) | 1 | #87 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 388 | I Want You | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2025 | 97 | I Want You | Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs (2025) |
| 2023 | 513 | Truly Madly Deeply | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s |
| 2022 | 528 | Truly Madly Deeply | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s |
| 2018 | 87 | I Want You (Album Version) | Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018) |
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