Artist · chart history
The Beautiful Girls
Band Sydney Australia Formed 2001
The Beautiful Girls formed in 2001 in Sydney, Australia. The Beautiful Girls has 6 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2008. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Thought About You”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #38. The station that charted The Beautiful Girls most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.
The Beautiful Girls started in Sydney in 2001, when Mat McHugh, Clay MacDonald and Mitchell Connelly got together to play roots music with plenty of sunshine in it and a laid-back, beach-town sway. McHugh is the songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist at the center, and MacDonald and Connelly are a rhythm section good enough that Angus & Julia Stone borrowed them for their first two EPs and first two albums, and took them on the road from 2007 to 2009.
A clutch of early EPs led to Learn Yourself in 2003, home of "Black Bird" and "Music", and then We're Already Gone in 2005 with the easy, rolling "Let's Take the Long Way Home". Ziggurats followed in 2007, carrying "I Thought About You", which made number 60 on the ARIA singles chart. Spooks and Dancehall Days came after, and every album from We're Already Gone onward made the ARIA top 20, with the last two getting noticed on the American reggae charts too.
By 2014 they had toured the world several times over, from Japan and Brazil to Canada and the United States, and sold 350,000 albums without ever sounding like they were in a hurry.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Beautiful Girls on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Thought About You | 2 | #38 | – | 2007 | |
| 2 | Black Bird | 1 | #41 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Music | 1 | #62 | – | 2003 | |
| 4 | Ashes | 1 | #68 | – | 2005 | |
| 5 | Let's Take the Long Way Home | 1 | #81 | – | 2005 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 74 | I Thought About You | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2008 |
| 2007 | 38 | I Thought About You | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007 |
| 2005 | 68 | Ashes | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2005 |
| 2005 | 81 | Let's Take the Long Way Home | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2005 |
| 2003 | 41 | Black Bird | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003 |
| 2003 | 62 | Music | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003 |
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