Australian late-night weekend staple Rage have revealed their top 50 videos of the past 12 months. Coming as a surprise to very few, Sia’s clip for ‘Chandelier’, which has garnered over 411 million views on YouTube and was one of the most talked-about videos of the year, has taken the top spot.
Meanwhile, Chet Faker’s popular ‘Gold’ clip just missed out, taking the number two spot, with his ‘1998’ and ‘Talk Is Cheap’ videos also making it into the top 25. The bronze went to Queens of the Stone Age for their ‘Smooth Sailing’ video, with the top five rounded out by Slipknot’s ‘The Devil In I’ and Taylor Swift ‘Shake It Off’.
Last year’s publicly-voted poll was also topped by an Aussie act, with Birds Of Tokyo coming out on top for the video to their ubiquitous hit ‘Lanterns’. Meanwhile, K-pop sensation Psy took 2012 with ‘Gangnam Style’, taking over the the throne from Gotye who ruled 2011 with ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’.
Aussies pretty much dominated this year’s poll, with Chet Faker and fellow Aussies Violent Soho standing as the only two artists to have more than one clip on the list, and a raft of Aussies making the cut, including Hilltop Hoods, Nick Cave, Northlane, King Gizzard, I Killed The Prom Queen, and Flight Facilities.
Rage’s Top 50 Videos Of 2014
1) Sia – Chandelier
2) Chet Faker – Gold
3) Queens Of The Stone Age – Smooth Sailing
4) Slipknot – The Devil In I
5) Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
6) Fka Twigs – Two Weeks
7) Nicki Minaj – Anaconda
8) Hits – Loose Cannons
9) Amity Affliction, The – Pittsburgh
10) Courtney Barnett – Anonymous Club
11) Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
12) Hilltop Hoods – Cosby Sweater
13) Violent Soho – Saramona Said
14) Chet Faker – 1998
15) DJ Snake And Lil Jon – Turn Down For What
16) Mac Demarco – Passing Out Pieces
17) Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues
18) Northlane – Rot
19) Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli Xcx – Fancy
20) HAIM – If I Could Change Your Mind
21) Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders – Come On Back This Way
22) Chet Faker – Talk Is Cheap
23) The Veronicas – You Ruin Me
24) Arctic Monkeys – Arabella
25) Childish Gambino – Sweatpants
26) Alt-j – Hunger Of The Pine
27) Client Liaison – Feed The Rhythm
28) Mastodon – High Road
29) Flying Lotus Featuring Kendrick Lamar – Never Catch Me
30) Weird Al Yankovic – Tacky
31) Violent Soho – Fur Eyes
32) Die Antwoord – Ugly Boy
33) DZ Deathrays – Gina Works At Hearts
34) Kiesza – Hideaway
35) Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass
36) Pharrell Williams – Happy
37) St Vincent – Digital Witness
38) Behemoth – Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel
39) King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – Hot Wax
40) Fascinator – Showin’ Off
41) Tiga – Bugatti
42) Alt-j – Every Other Freckle
43) Arcade Fire – Afterlife
44) Flight Facilities – Two Bodies
45) I Killed The Prom Queen – Thirty One And Sevens
46) Jack White – Lazaretto
47) San Cisco – Run
48) Russell Morris – Van Diemens Land
49) Twelve Foot Ninja – Ain’t That A Bitch
50) Magic Hands – Limousine
