Artist · chart history
The Avalanches
Band Melbourne Australia Formed 1997 Australian electronic music group
The Avalanches formed in 1997 in Melbourne, Australia. The Avalanches has 46 chart appearances on 37 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Frontier Psychiatrist”, which appears on 21 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted The Avalanches most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 10 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
The Avalanches came out of Melbourne in 1997, a gang who treated other people's records as raw clay. Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi were there at the start alongside Darren Seltmann, Dexter and Gordon McQuilten, and their debut, Since I Left You, landed in 2000 sounding like nothing else that year: a seamless, sun-dazed collage of disco, hip-hop and dusty samples, stitched so tightly that you stop hunting for the joins and just drift. The title track is the gorgeous front door, and "Frontier Psychiatrist" is the wild card nobody could shake. Plenty of critics now rank the album as the most important record plunderphonics has produced.
Then came the long wait. Seltmann was gone by 2006, and it took until 2016 for Wildflower to surface, with "Frankie Sinatra", "Because I'm Me" and "Subways" proving the magpie instinct hadn't dulled. We Will Always Love You followed in 2020, bringing "Running Red Lights" and "Wherever You Go" with it. Along the way they picked up the Australian Music Prize.
These days the core is Chater and Di Blasi with multi-instrumentalist Andy Szekeres, playing a hybrid live show that is part band, part DJ set, and a fourth album, No Bad Memories, is lined up for 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Avalanches on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frontier Psychiatrist | 21 | #4 | – | 2002 | |
| 2 | Since I Left You | 9 | #8 | – | 2001 | |
| 3 | Frankie Sinatra | 5 | #14 | – | 2016 | |
| 4 | Wherever You Go | 3 | #24 | – | 2020 | |
| 5 | Running Red Lights | 2 | #35 | – | 2020 | |
| 6 | The Divine Chord | 1 | #75 | – | 2021 | |
| 7 | Interstellar Love | 1 | #50 | – | 2020 | |
| 8 | We Go On | 1 | #49 | – | 2021 | |
| 9 | Because I'm Me | 1 | #75 | – | 2016 | |
| 10 | Radio | 1 | #76 | – | 2001 | |
| 11 | Subways | 1 | #91 | – | 2016 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with The Avalanches as a guest.
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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