Brother (Matt Corby song)

"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"
Single by Matt Corby
from the album Into the Flame
Released11 November 2011
Genre
Length4:14
LabelUniversal Australia
Songwriter(s)Matt Corby
Matt Corby singles chronology
"Made of Stone"
(2010)		 "Brother"
(2011)		 "Resolution"
(2013)

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

Certification
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[7] 6× Platinum 420,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Other versions

Thundamentals performed a version of "Brother" on triple j's Like a Version in 2012.[8]

Austin P. McKenzie performed a version of "Brother" on August 30, 2015 live at the Spring Awakening Cabaret.[9]

References
  1. "2012 Winners Announced". ARIA Awards. Archived from the original on 30 November 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  2. "Song of the Year - 2012". APRA Awards. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  3. "Australian-charts.com – Matt Corby – Into the Flame %5BEP%5D". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  4. "Nederlandse Top 40 – Matt Corby" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  5. "Dutchcharts.nl – Matt Corby – Brother" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  6. "2019 ARIA End of Decade Singles Chart". ARIA. January 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  7. "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2013 Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association. 31 October 2013. Archived from the original on 15 September 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By80vyAJk-0
  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfvz32mKi_0
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