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Sia
Solo artist Adelaide Australia Australian singer‐songwriter
Sia is an artist from Adelaide. Sia has 38 chart appearances on 34 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Breathe Me”, which appears on 20 lists with a best position of #3. The station that charted Sia most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
Sia Furler, born in Adelaide in 1975, has been drifting between the spotlight and the shadows for a long time. Her first gig of note was fronting Crisp, an acid jazz outfit, back in the mid-'90s; she put out her debut OnlySee in Australia after they split, then moved to London, where she lent her voice to the duo Zero 7, and released Healing Is Difficult in 2001.
Colour the Small One, in 2004, is the one that shows what she can really do: a hushed, fragile record that saves its biggest ache for "Breathe Me", a song that starts as a whisper and swells into something close to a sob. She moved to New York the following year, and Some People Have Real Problems and We Are Born brought her a wider audience.
Then, uneasy with fame, she stepped back and wrote hits for other people: "Titanium" with David Guetta, "Diamonds" for Rihanna, "Pretty Hurts" for Beyoncé. When she returned, it was on her own terms. 1000 Forms of Fear topped the Billboard 200 and gave her "Chandelier", with videos starring the child dancer Maddie Ziegler, This Is Acting brought "Cheap Thrills", and in public she started hiding her face behind a wig to keep her privacy.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sia on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breathe Me | 20 | #3 | – | 2005 | |
| 2 | Chandelier | 4 | #9 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Breathe Me (Live) | 7 | #1424 | – | – | |
| 4 | Breathe Me (Mylo Remix) | 1 | #7 | – | 2006 | |
| 5 | Clap Your Hands | 1 | #13 | – | 2010 | |
| 6 | Buttons (CSS Remix) | 1 | #50 | – | 2009 | |
| 7 | Alive | 1 | #56 | – | 2015 | |
| 8 | Bring Night | 1 | #56 | – | 2010 | |
| 9 | Day Too Soon | 1 | #637 | – | – | |
| 10 | You've Changed | 1 | #72 | – | 2009 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Sia as a guest.
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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