Sometimes – just sometimes – the universe operates smoothly and correctly, and this week was one of those times, with Bad//Dreems absolutely brilliant new track ‘Jack’ running the table on the best Australian new music playlists.
🥇Bad//Dreems
🥈Babe Rainbow
🥉Kinder, Ocean Alley, Press Club, Royel Otis
What’s of note here too is more precisely who doled out all that support – not only did both Spotify and Triple J lists give them the nod (that doesn’t always happen) but an absolutely load of the independent playlists piled on with adds. The Baddies are the real deal, beloved by the grassroots and the corporates both. It’s also a powerful, deeply angry track and should be heard by everyone, everywhere – thank you universe for working out like you should this week.
Elsewhere, tracks from Babe Rainbow’s LP got liberally scattered across the playlists, with Ocean Alley and Royel Otis also doing well. It was also great to see Press Club’s excellent ‘Endless Motion’ LP also getting heavily backed.
Story Of The Week though goes to Kinder, whose new track ‘Keep Up’ not only kept pace but outran some more established artists this week. This duo may originally hail from a small town, but they’re pulling some pretty big moves.
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📸 Bad//Dreems by me, a hundred years ago at The Captain Cook
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The image above is a screenshot of the top end of the full lists. You can see this week’s lists here – those are updated on Mondays and allow you to scroll down the whole list. That page also details a bit more about how the whole thing works and what the charts mean.
You can also listen to the most playlisted tracks on, er, a playlist that I keep updated here. This has got the latest 50-ish most playlisted tracks from the last month or so on it, and it’s a decent spin through recent tracks that Australian new music playlisters are adding. The playlists that I track are the same as the ones listed in the Playlist Guide.