Artist · chart history
OMC
Band New Zealand Active 1993–2010
OMC formed in 1993 in New Zealand and was active until 2010. OMC has 12 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 1996–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “How Bizarre”, which appears on 12 lists with a best position of #23. The station that charted OMC most often is Q101 (Chicago, IL), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1997.
OMC stands for Otara Millionaires Club, a wry joke about Otara's standing as one of the poorest suburbs of Auckland, and the New Zealand group started out in 1993 as a crew that included Pauly Fuemana, Phillip Fuemana and Alan Jansson. It shrank to a duo and eventually to Pauly alone.
"How Bizarre", from 1996, is the song that made them. It's a sunny, loose-limbed pop-rock shuffle with the easy charm of a campfire singalong, and it wears its oddness lightly. The Australasian Performing Right Association later named it one of the greatest songs New Zealand has ever produced.
OMC came to an end in 2010.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by OMC on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How Bizarre | 12 | #23 | – | 1997 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 343 | How Bizarre | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2025 | 514 | How Bizarre | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs |
| 2024 | 793 | How Bizarre | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years |
| 2023 | 366 | How Bizarre | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s |
| 2022 | 637 | How Bizarre | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s |
| 1999 | 885 | How Bizarre | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) |
| 1997 | 106.7 | How Bizarre | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997 |
| 1997 | 93 | How Bizarre | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 |
| 1997 | 23 | How Bizarre | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1997 |
| 1997 | 39 | How Bizarre | KNRK Top 94 Songs of 1997 |
| 1997 | 69 | How Bizarre | X103.9 Top 103.9 Songs of 1997 |
| 1996 | 78 | How Bizarre | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 |
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