Vance Joy’s Riptide has been the top Australian song on the ARIA charts for much of this year. But its success signals a bigger issue in Australian music.
is currently sitting at number one on ARIA’s Australian singles chart, number 18 on the overall ARIA singles chart, and number 17 on Spotify’s Australian singles chart. It was released in 2013.
Alex Cameron, guitarist from Adelaide rock band Bad//Dreems and founder of indie label Endless Recordings, suggests that the dominance of music streaming – often as background noise – likely contributes to Vance Joy’s ongoing success.“This isn’t a personal criticism,” says Cameron.
“A lot of Australia likes very safe, very non-challenging, very conservative things,” he says, drawing a comparison between Australia’s most popular songs and the recent results of the Voice referendum. “There’s definitely good art and good music being made in this country, but how much of that is legitimately getting across to the mainstream and affecting our cultural dialogue? That’s what would concern me about the fact that a 10-year-old song is still charting.
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