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@Ant5476

Another song Fine Line by Mabel was her breakout hit, top 5 in the UK, but got completely ignored in Australia. IMO it actually is one of her best songs. If Australian radio picked this song up it probably would have done well here too.

At the time she had yet to break the Australian market but later did so with “Don’t Call Me Up” which you mentioned. It’s her only charting song here; peaking at 14 on the ARIA charts in the first half of 2019.

A recent song of hers (“I Wish” with Joel Corry) also got some decent airplay on radio in Australia but never charted.

But that’s what I like about Nova - is that they play certain songs and artists others don’t, and also play some of the best charting songs from overseas.

@Avatar5991

In June 2009 The Script released a song called “Before the Worst”, which tanked in the UK and Ireland charts.

However, it became a top ten hit in Australia, partially because they performed it at that year’s NRL Grand Final during their visit to the country at the time that it started to play on the radio.

And here’s a case of reverse psychology. This song did quite well in Australia but not so in its native Ireland.

Still on The Script - their latest song “Dare You to Doubt Me” has not yet been played on Australian radio but I will try to make sure of it when I ring up during Smallzy’s Surgery at some point!