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Rock radio countdowns from Australia

RockLists has 43 countdowns from 2 stations in Australia. Combining all of them, the song Australia listeners voted for most is “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division, which appears on 5 countdowns.

Stations in Australia

Top 50 songs voted by Australia listeners

Combined points across every countdown from Australia that counts toward the rankings, all formats together.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Year
1	Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division	481	5	#1	2	2005
2	Throw Your Arms Around Me Hunters And Collectors	472	5	#2	–	–
3	Blue Monday New Order	423	5	#5	–	1983
4	How Soon is Now? The Smiths	390	5	#3	–	1984
5	Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin	368	5	#6	–	–
6	Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes	330	5	#9	–	–
7	Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd	322	5	#16	–	–
8	A Forest The Cure	301	4	#8	–	–
9	Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana	300	3	#1	3	1991
10	Uncertain Smile The The	283	3	#3	–	–
11	Creep Radiohead	283	3	#2	–	1993
12	Last Goodbye Jeff Buckley	278	3	#4	–	1995
13	Paranoid Android Radiohead	278	3	#5	–	1997
14	Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine	278	3	#2	–	1993
15	Fools Gold The Stone Roses	276	4	#6	–	1990
16	Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols	275	4	#17	–	–
17	That's Entertainment The Jam	266	3	#4	–	–
18	It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) R.E.M.	260	3	#9	–	1987
19	Holiday In Cambodia Dead Kennedys	259	3	#6	–	1980
20	This Charming Man The Smiths	254	3	#7	–	1983
21	The Ship Song Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	241	3	#14	–	1990
22	Bohemian Rhapsody Queen	240	3	#6	–	–
23	Stinkfist Tool	240	3	#2	–	1996
24	Prisoner of Society The Living End	236	3	#15	–	1999
25	Bizarre Love Triangle New Order	232	4	#21	–	1986
26	Primary The Cure	230	3	#19	–	1982
27	She Sells Sanctuary The Cult	230	3	#16	–	1985
28	Closer Nine Inch Nails	225	3	#2	–	1994
29	Karma Police Radiohead	225	3	#9	–	1998
30	Wuthering Heights Kate Bush	224	3	#17	–	–
31	Talking to a Stranger Hunters And Collectors	218	3	#8	–	–
32	Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins	217	3	#2	–	1995
33	All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix	212	5	#30	–	–
34	Boys Don't Cry The Cure	211	4	#23	–	1986
35	Dammit blink-182	209	3	#6	–	1997
36	Troy Sinéad O'Connor	207	3	#13	–	1988
37	Song to the Siren This Mortal Coil	207	3	#15	–	1983
38	Tomorrow Silverchair	206	3	#5	–	1995
39	Rock Lobster The B-52's	204	3	#8	–	2005
40	Enter Sandman Metallica	203	3	#9	–	1991
41	Somebody That I Used To Know Gotye	199	2	#1	1	2012
42	Better Man Pearl Jam	198	3	#22	–	1995
43	The Less I Know the Better Tame Impala	197	2	#1	1	2016
44	Sabotage Beastie Boys	195	3	#16	–	1994
45	Do I Wanna Know Arctic Monkeys	195	2	#3	–	2013
46	Imagine John Lennon	195	3	#11	–	–
47	Song 2 Blur	194	3	#2	–	1997
48	Never Be like You Flume	193	2	#1	1	2016
49	Big Jet Plane Angus and Julia Stone	192	2	#1	1	2010
50	Brick Ben Folds Five	192	3	#12	–	1998

Artists from Australia

382 charting artists in the archive come from Australia (per MusicBrainz). The biggest, by countdown results everywhere:

1AC/DCSydney83 songs
2INXSSydney42 songs
3Midnight OilSydney27 songs
4Crowded HouseMelbourne19 songs
5Tame ImpalaSydney30 songs
6The ChurchCanberra16 songs
7Courtney BarnettSydney25 songs
8SilverchairNewcastle21 songs
9Vance JoyMelbourne13 songs
10Sick Puppies12 songs
11GotyeBrugge8 songs
12Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsMelbourne25 songs
13WolfmotherSydney13 songs
14Hoodoo GurusSydney17 songs
15The Temper TrapMelbourne6 songs
16Men At WorkMelbourne7 songs
17Atlas GeniusAdelaide6 songs
18The DivinylsSydney5 songs
19The VinesSydney8 songs
20The Living EndMelbourne17 songs
21PowderfingerBrisbane22 songs
22Hilltop HoodsAdelaide27 songs
23Boy & BearSydney13 songs
24The AvalanchesMelbourne11 songs
25John Butler TrioFremantle20 songs
26Genesis OwusuGhana9 songs
27Empire of the SunSydney6 songs
28SiaAdelaide10 songs
29Rüfüs Du SolSydney19 songs
30Chet FakerMelbourne9 songs