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Vance Joy
Solo artist Melbourne Australia Australian singer-songwriter
Vance Joy is an artist from Melbourne. Vance Joy has 122 chart appearances on 102 radio countdowns from 31 stations on RockLists, spanning 2013–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Riptide”, which appears on 40 lists and was voted number one three times. In total the artist has topped 3 countdowns. The station that charted Vance Joy most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 14 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Vance Joy is the stage name of James Keogh, a Melbourne singer and songwriter who played Australian rules football before he picked music, and whose weapon of choice is a ukulele. Atlantic signed him up for five albums in 2013, and he put out his debut EP, God Loves You When You're Dancing, that March.
"Riptide" is the song that changed everything, a breezy, strummed-in-a-rush tune with a hook so sticky it seemed to follow you around all year, and it topped Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 for 2013. His debut album, Dream Your Life Away, arrived in September 2014 with "Mess Is Mine", "First Time" and "Georgia", warm, wide-open indie folk built for singing along, and in 2015 the ARIA Awards named him Best Male Artist.
Nation of Two followed in 2018, bringing "Lay It On Me" and "Saturday Sun" and a fuller, sunnier sound, and In Our Own Sweet Time, released in June 2022, gave him "Missing Piece" and "Clarity", both of them fresh proof that the easygoing charm still works.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Vance Joy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riptide | 40 | #1 | 3 | 2014 | |
| 2 | Mess Is Mine | 18 | #6 | – | 2015 | |
| 3 | Lay it On Me | 14 | #9 | – | 2017 | |
| 4 | Missing Piece | 10 | #2 | – | 2021 | |
| 5 | Saturday Sun | 11 | #20 | – | 2018 | |
| 6 | Fire and the Flood | 13 | #11 | – | 2015 | |
| 7 | Clarity | 8 | #13 | – | 2022 | |
| 8 | Fascination in the Dark | 3 | #41 | – | 2025 | |
| 9 | First Time | 1 | #50 | – | 2014 | |
| 10 | We're Going Home | 1 | #53 | – | 2018 | |
| 11 | Divine Feelings | 1 | #75 | – | 2025 | |
| 12 | Georgia | 1 | #93 | – | 2014 | |
| 13 | Play with Fire | 1 | #95 | – | 2013 |
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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