Artist · chart history
DMA's
Band Sydney Australia Formed 2013 Australian rock band
DMA's formed in 2013 in Sydney, Australia. DMA's has 19 chart appearances on 13 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Believe (Like a Version)”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #6. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted DMA's most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 16 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
DMA's came out of Sydney in 2014 with the debut single "Delete" and a self-titled EP, and it took about one chorus to work out what they were after: great big, slightly bleary guitar anthems, the kind you sing back at a stage with your arm around a stranger. Tommy O'Dell takes the lead vocal, Matt Mason plays lead guitar and Johnny Took handles rhythm guitar, and the trio play it wide open, all jangle and swagger with a soft heart hiding underneath.
The debut album Hills End followed in 2016, carrying "Step Up the Morphine", "Lay Down" and "Too Soon", and For Now arrived in 2018 with "In the Air" and "The End". The Glow, in 2020, pushed the sound somewhere shinier on "Silver", "Criminals" and the title track, and How Many Dreams? followed in 2023. Every one of those 4 albums reached the top 10 of the ARIA Albums Chart back home, and the last two went top five in the UK and Scotland, proof that the anthems travel.
Their cover of Cher's "Believe" is the curveball in the catalog, and it's the track countdown voters have held on to hardest.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by DMA's on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Believe (Like a Version) | 2 | #6 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | Delete | 3 | #21 | – | 2014 | |
| 3 | Believe (originally by Cher) | 1 | #1 | 1 | – | |
| 4 | Silver | 1 | #20 | – | 2019 | |
| 5 | Criminals | 1 | #32 | – | 2020 | |
| 6 | Laced | 1 | #33 | – | 2015 | |
| 7 | Step Up the Morphine | 1 | #39 | – | 2016 | |
| 8 | In the Air | 1 | #41 | – | 2018 | |
| 9 | The Glow | 1 | #52 | – | 2020 | |
| 10 | The End | 1 | #60 | – | 2018 | |
| 11 | Lay Down | 2 | #77 | – | 2015 | |
| 12 | Too Soon | 1 | #82 | – | 2016 | |
| 13 | Everybody's Saying Thursday's the Weekend | 1 | #85 | – | 2022 | |
| 14 | Dawning | 1 | #89 | – | 2017 | |
| 15 | Do I Need You Now? | 1 | #97 | – | 2018 |
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.
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