Artist · chart history · #299 in alternative artist polls
The Vines
Band Sydney Australia Formed 1999 Australian alternative rock band
The Vines formed in 1999 in Sydney, Australia. The Vines has 74 chart appearances on 51 radio countdowns from 28 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Get Free”, which appears on 31 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted The Vines most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 17 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
The Vines came roaring out of Sydney with a sound that bolted '60s garage rock onto '90s alternative crunch, and at the center of it was Craig Nicholls, singer, guitarist and the one member who has been there through every lineup change. Over the years he has been joined by Patrick Matthews, Hamish Rosser, David Olliffe and Ryan Griffiths, among others.
Highly Evolved, the 2002 debut, lurches between sweet, Beatle-ish melody and scream-your-lungs-out thrash, sometimes inside a single song. "Get Free" is the explosion, a short, sharp rush of fuzz and howling that won the ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist for a single, and the album picked up five more ARIA nominations and went platinum at home. "Outtathaway" and the title track keep up the frenzy.
Winning Days in 2004 brought the stomping "Ride", and Vision Valley followed in 2006 with "Don't Listen to the Radio". The band went on to make seven studio albums in all.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Vines on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get Free | 31 | #5 | – | 2002 | |
| 2 | Ride | 23 | #43 | – | 2004 | |
| 3 | Outtathaway | 13 | #21 | – | 2002 | |
| 4 | Ms. Jackson | 2 | #30 | – | 2002 | |
| 5 | Highly Evolved | 1 | #19 | – | 2002 | |
| 6 | I'm Only Sleeping | 1 | #71 | – | 2002 | |
| 7 | Don't Listen to the Radio | 1 | #91 | – | 2006 | |
| 8 | Animal Machine | 1 | #227 | – | 2004 |
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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