# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-barnes
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:51:18.224Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-barnes"
name: "Jimmy Barnes"
slug: "jimmy-barnes"
description: "James Dixon Barnes is an Australian rock singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. By 2022 he had achieved 15 solo number-one albums in Australia, more than any other artist. He has won many awards, and been nominated for many more. In 2005 he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame as a solo artist, after also having been an inductee in 1992 as a member of Cold Chisel. His music has covered many genres, including hard rock, blues rock, soul, R&B, country, country rock, and electronic. Some of his albums were recorded at his own recording studio, Freight Train Studios."
tagline: "Australian singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Barnes_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1956-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           74.21
  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.52767866666667
  currentAttention:     60
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  40
  category: null
totalFollowers: 132000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jimmybarnes"
    handle:    "jimmybarnes"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jimmybarnesofficial/"
    handle:    "jimmybarnesofficial"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/jimmybarnesofficial"
    handle:    "jimmybarnesofficial"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1k5aZWIOUbUfKcnMxtEivJ"
    handle:    "1k5aZWIOUbUfKcnMxtEivJ"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jimmybarnes.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjTB7lYBnhLFaDwxQ-FK6ZQ"
    handle:    "@officialjimmybarnes"
    followers: 132000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جيمي بارنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جيمى بارنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جیمی بارنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes"
    title: "Jimmy Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes"
    title: "Jimmy Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes"
    title: "Jimmy Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes"
    title: "Jimmy Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes"
    title: "Jimmy Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%80%EB%AF%B8_%EB%B0%98%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "지미 반스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes"
    title: "Jimmy Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes"
    title: "Jimmy Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Барнс, Джимми"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Barnes"
    title: "Jimmy Barnes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/acaacdc4-194e-45ae-9959-c8e83e3120b2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689312"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump