Straight Lines (song)

"Straight Lines"
"Straight Lines"
Single by Silverchair
from the album Young Modern
B-side	"All Across the World"; "Sleep All Day" (demo); "Don't Wanna Be the One" (live);
Released	12 March 2007
Studio	Seedy Underbelly (Los Angeles, California, US)
Length	4:18
Label	Eleven
Composer(s)	Daniel Johns; Julian Hamilton;
Lyricist(s)	Daniel Johns
Producer(s)	Daniel Johns; Nick Launay;
Silverchair singles chronology
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"Straight Lines" is a song by Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released on 12 March 2007 and debuted at number one on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the band's first number-one single since 1997's "Freak". The single was shortly followed by the release of the band's fifth studio album Young Modern on 31 March 2007. Unlike the songs written during Diorama, when Daniel Johns wrote all the tracks himself, "Straight Lines" was co-written by the Presets' Julian Hamilton.

"Straight Lines" was awarded a double-platinum certification by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) on 2 September 2007, indicating combined digital and physical single sales of 140,000 units in Australia. On 28 October 2007, "Straight Lines" won "Best Selling Australian Single" at the ARIA Music Awards of 2007, as well as "Single of the Year". The song was the most played song on Australian radio in 2007.^[2] It charted at number two on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2007 and missed out on the number-one spot by only 13 votes.

In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Straight Lines" was ranked number 74.^[3]

^ "The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 12th March 2007" (PDF). ARIA. 12 March 2007. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
^ "Silverchair's Straight Lines rules radio". The West Australian. 18 January 2008. Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2008.
^ "Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'". Musicfeeds. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

[1] "The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles – Week Commencing 12th March 2007" (PDF). ARIA. 12 March 2007. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

[2] "Silverchair's Straight Lines rules radio". The West Australian. 18 January 2008. Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2008.

[3] "Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'". Musicfeeds. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

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