Artist · chart history
Delerium
Band Vancouver Canada Formed 1986 Canadian trance/electronic/ambient band
Delerium formed in 1986 in Vancouver, Canada. Delerium has 4 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1998–2007. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Silence”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #6. The station that charted Delerium most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1998.
Delerium started life in Vancouver as a side project of Front Line Assembly, the industrial outfit, and wound up with a worldwide hit that sounded nothing like a factory floor. "Silence" is the song the world knows them for, a shimmering, trance-lit slab of electronic pop that even a rock station's listeners pushed near the top of their countdown.
Bill Leeb has been at the controls from the start, with Michael Balch around briefly at the beginning. Rhys Fulber came aboard in 1989, stepped away in 2000 while Chris Peterson filled the gap, and returned in 2002. Over the years the duo has drifted from dark, ethereal ambient and wordless industrial soundscapes toward trance and full-on pop, and since Semantic Spaces in 1994 they have made a habit of bringing in female guest singers, which is where the ache in their best records comes from.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Delerium on radio countdowns
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 120 (tie) | The Way You Want It To Be | WBER Listener Countdown 2007 |
| 2001 | 63 (tie) | Daylight | WBER Listener Countdown 2001 |
| 1998 | 6 | Silence | WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 |
| 1998 | 41 | Silence | WBER Listener Countdown 1998 |
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