Artist · chart history

The Divinyls

Band Sydney Australia Active 1981–1996 Australian rock band

The Divinyls formed in 1981 in Sydney, Australia and was active until 1996. The Divinyls has 63 chart appearances on 41 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 1985–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “I Touch Myself”, which appears on 36 lists with a best position of #12. The station that charted The Divinyls most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 28 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1991.

63appearances

41countdowns

5songs charted

18stations

0#1 finishes

1985–2026years

Divinyls came out of Sydney as a five-piece, but the story was always about 2 people: guitarist Mark McEntee and singer Chrissy Amphlett, the only constants through years of lineup changes. Amphlett was a live wire in every sense. She performed dressed in a schoolgirl's uniform with fishnets and would brandish a glowing neon tube at her bandmates and the audience alike, and the music had the same snarl, tough new wave rock with a sneer and a sway.

"Boys In Town" arrived in 1982, and What a Life!, in 1985, delivered "Pleasure And Pain", a brooding, heat-stroked number that showed there was more going on than attitude. Temperamental followed in 1988 with "Back to the Wall". Then came diVINYLS in 1990 and "I Touch Myself", a slinky, breathless pop song that needed no explaining and became their biggest-selling single, with "Make Out Alright" riding along behind it.

The band broke up in 1996 and went into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006. Amphlett and McEntee got back together in late 2007 to record a new single and play a handful of shows before calling it off for good in 2009. Amphlett died in 2013.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by The Divinyls on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	I Touch Myself	2,071	36	#12	–	1991
2	Pleasure And Pain	919	22	#43	–	1985
3	Make Out Alright	21	3	#105	–	1991
4	Back to the Wall	19	1	#87	–	1988
5	Boys In Town	18	1	#83	–	–

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.

85 86 88 91

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2026	614	I Touch Myself	KXT 917 Song Countdown
2025	54	I Touch Myself	Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs (2025)
2023	545	I Touch Myself	The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s
2021	466	I Touch Myself	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2018	43	Pleasure And Pain	Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018)
2018	60	I Touch Myself	Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018)
2018	83	Boys In Town	Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018)
2014	686	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2014	1617	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	663	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013	1559	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	642	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2011	1496	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	623	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2010	1433	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	603	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009	1402	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	591	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2008	1381	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	609	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007	1417	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2005	366	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2005	858	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	364	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2004	857	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	364	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	857	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)
2003	444	I Touch Myself	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003	1338	Pleasure And Pain	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2003	1890	Make Out Alright	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)
2002	364	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	859	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)
2002	1072	I Touch Myself	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002	1785	Make Out Alright	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2002	1983	Pleasure And Pain	Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002)
2001	364	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	859	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)
2001	754	I Touch Myself	WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time
2001	418	I Touch Myself	WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001)
2000	364	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
2000	857	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)
1999	327	I Touch Myself	91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999)
1999	757	I Touch Myself	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	240	I Touch Myself	WLIR Top 300 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	414	Pleasure And Pain	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	727	I Touch Myself	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	364	I Touch Myself	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	806	Pleasure And Pain	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	743	I Touch Myself	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)
1999	410	I Touch Myself	WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)
1996	153	I Touch Myself	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996)
1995	237	I Touch Myself	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1995)
1994	218	I Touch Myself	Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994)
1991	25	I Touch Myself	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991
1991	105	Make Out Alright	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1991
1991	19	I Touch Myself	91X Top 91 Songs of 1991
1991	12	I Touch Myself	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991
1991	397	I Touch Myself	WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991)
1989	302	Pleasure And Pain	KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989)
1988	87	Back to the Wall	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988
1988	153	Pleasure And Pain	Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988)
1986	76	Pleasure And Pain	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986
1985	62	Pleasure And Pain	91X Top 91 Songs of 1985

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