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Brother (Matt Corby song)

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"Brother"

SinglebyMatt Corby

from the album Into the Flame

Released

11 November 2011

Genre

Soul

blues

Pop rock

Length

4:14

Label

Universal Australia

Songwriter(s)

Matt Corby

Matt Corby singles chronology

"Made of Stone"
(2010)

"Brother"
(2011)

"Resolution"
(2013)

"Brother" is the first single released from Australian singer Matt Corby's extended play (EP), Into the Flame. The song peaked at number 3 on the ARIA Charts as the Into the Flame EP, as songs' sales are counted towards their parent EPs on the singles chart. The song won Song of the Year at the 2012 ARIA Awards^[1] and was nominated for the same category at the 2012 APRA Awards.^[2] It also came in at #3 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2011, behind "Somebody That I Used to Know" and "Lonely Boy".

"Brother" (2011)

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Charts[edit]

Chart (2011–12)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)^[3] Into the Flame EP	3
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^[4]	29
Netherlands (Single Top 100)^[5]	32

Decade-end charts[edit]

Chart (2010–2019)	Position
Australia (ARIA)^[6]	68
Australian Artist Singles (ARIA)^[6]	8

Other versions[edit]

Thundamentals performed a version of "Brother" on triple j's Like a Version in 2012.^[7]

Austin P. McKenzie performed a version of "Brother" on 30 August 2015, live at the Spring Awakening Cabaret.^[8]

References[edit]

^ "2012 Winners Announced". ARIA Awards. Archived from the original on 3 December 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2013.

^ "Song of the Year - 2012". APRA Awards. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2013.

^ "Matt Corby – Into the Flame %5BEP%5D". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 13 October 2016.

^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Matt Corby" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 31 May 2020.

^ "Matt Corby – Brother" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 13 October 2016.

^ ^a ^b "2019 ARIA End of Decade Singles Chart". Australian Recording Industry Association. January 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2020.

^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Thundamentals cover Matt Corby 'Brother' for Like A Version" – via YouTube.

^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Austin McKenzie – "Brother" (Matt Corby)" – via YouTube.

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Discography
Studio albums	Telluric Rainbow Valley Everything's Fine
EPs	Transition to Colour Into the Flame iTunes Session Resolution Live on the Resolution Tour
Singles	"Brother" "Resolution" "Monday" "All Fired Up" "Miracle Love" "Talk It Out" "Problems" "Reelin'"
Related articles	Australian Idol season 5

v t e ARIA Award for Single of the Year
1980s	"You're the Voice" by John Farnham (1987) "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil (1988) "Under the Milky Way" by The Church (1989)
1990s	"Crying in the Chapel" by Peter Blakeley (1990) "I Don't Wanna Be with Nobody But You" by Absent Friends (1991) "Treaty (Filthy Lucre Remix)" by Yothu Yindi (1992) "The Day You Went Away" by Wendy Matthews (1993) "The Honeymoon Is Over" by The Cruel Sea (1994) "Tomorrow" by Silverchair (1995) "Where the Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue (1996) "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden (1997) "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia (1998) "The Day You Come" by Powderfinger (1999)
2000s	"Don't Call Me Baby" by Madison Avenue (2000) "My Happiness" by Powderfinger (2001) "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue (2002) "Born to Try" by Delta Goodrem (2003) "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet (2004) "Catch My Disease" by Ben Lee (2005) "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" by Eskimo Joe (2006) "Straight Lines" by Silverchair (2007) "Sweet About Me" by Gabriella Cilmi (2008) "Walking on a Dream" by Empire of the Sun (2009)
2010s	"Big Jet Plane" by Angus & Julia Stone (2010) "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye featuring Kimbra (2011) "Brother" by Matt Corby (2012) "Resolution" by Matt Corby (2013) "She Looks So Perfect" by 5 Seconds of Summer (2014) "Start Again" by Conrad Sewell (2015) "Youth" by Troye Sivan (2016) "Stranger" by Peking Duk (2017) "Youngblood" by 5 Seconds of Summer (2018) "Choir" by Guy Sebastian (2019)
2020s	"Teeth" by 5 Seconds of Summer (2020) "Booster Seat" by Spacey Jane (2021) "Cloudy Day" by Tones and I (2022) "Rush" by Troye Sivan (2023)

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