Artist · chart history
By Divine Right
Band Toronto Canada Formed 1989
By Divine Right formed in 1989 in Toronto, Canada. By Divine Right has 3 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2004–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Soft Machine”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #81. The station that charted By Divine Right most often is Channel 104.9 (San Jose, CA), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2005.
By Divine Right began in 1989 as a high school band, friends at Thornlea Secondary School in Thornhill, Ontario: guitarist and singer José Miguel Contreras, drummer Mark Goldstein, bassist Liz Teear and guitarist Steve Berman. Contreras has led it ever since, through a string of lineups that reads like a map of Toronto's indie scene. After a pile of independent releases they signed to Squirtgun Records for All Hail Discordia in 1997.
In 1998 bassist Brendan Canning and guitarist Leslie Feist joined up ahead of Bless This Mess, released in 1999 and toured across Canada and the States in the opening slot for the Tragically Hip. Both later moved on and co-founded Broken Social Scene. Good Morning Beautiful followed in 2001, and in 2003 By Divine Right became one of the very few Canadian bands to tour China.
By then the band was Contreras with Colleen Hixenbaugh, Brian Borcherdt, John Hall and Dylan Hudecki, and 2004 shook it up again: Hall, Borcherdt and Hudecki all left. Sweet Confusion, released on Nettwerk that year, reached rock radio with "Soft Machine", a woozy, sun-warmed rocker with fuzzy guitars and a lazy, loping groove.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by By Divine Right on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soft Machine | 3 | #81 | – | 2005 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 81 | Soft Machine | Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2005 |
| 2005 | 348 | Soft Machine | ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 |
| 2004 | 98 | Soft Machine | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 |
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