Continuing their annual tradition, everyone’s favourite 3am TV program, Rage have dropped their annual list of the year’s most popular videos, as voted by the public and not entirely surprisingly Sia’s Chandelier has nabbed the top spot.
Chet Faker caps off a hugely successful year with his ode to roller-skating video for Gold being voted into second place. Impressively, two of his other clips for Built on Glass tracks Talk Is Cheap and 1998 also feature in the top 50.
Gold was followed respectively in the countdown by Queens Of The Stone Age’s Smooth Sailing, Slipknot’s The Devil In I and Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off. Other notable mentions include Alt-j who scored two entries in the top 50 with Hunger Of The Pine and Every Other Freckle, as did Violent Soho with Saramona Said and Fur Eyes.
Many homegrown acts made the 2014 list including, Amity Affliction, Courtney Barnett, Hilltop Hoods, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Northlane, The Veronicas, Client Liaison, DZ Deathrays, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Flight Facilities, San Cisco, Russell Morris, Twelve Foot Ninja and Magic Hands.
See the top fifty below.
Watch: Sia – Chandelier (Official Video)
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