Artist · chart history
Wombats
Band Liverpool Formed 2003 UK indie rock band
Wombats formed in 2003 in Liverpool. Wombats has 60 chart appearances on 48 radio countdowns from 18 stations on RockLists, spanning 2007–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Jump Into The Fog”, which appears on 11 lists with a best position of #10. The station that charted Wombats most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 19 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
The Wombats formed in Liverpool in 2003, a trio with a knack for songs you can pogo to. Matthew Murphy sings and plays guitar and keyboards, Tord Øverland-Knudsen plays bass and Dan Haggis handles drums, and all three chip in on backing vocals and keyboards.
After a string of EPs and a first album, Girls, Boys and Marsupials, released only in Japan, they made their proper debut with A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation in 2007. "Let's Dance To Joy Division" is its high point, a wonderfully daft singalong, all scratchy guitars and yelped chorus.
This Modern Glitch arrived in 2011. "Jump Into The Fog", "Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)", "Techno Fan" and "1996" came from that era, some of them heard in stripped-down form on the This Acoustic Glitch EP. Glitterbug in 2015 kept the neon glow with "Give Me A Try" and "Greek Tragedy", and Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life in 2018 brought "Turn" and "Lemon to a Knife Fight". Then Fix Yourself, Not the World, in 2022, did what none of the others had managed and went straight to number one in the UK, with "If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming With You" leading the way.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Wombats on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jump Into The Fog | 11 | #10 | – | 2012 | |
| 2 | Let's Dance To Joy Division | 9 | #12 | – | 2008 | |
| 3 | Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) | 4 | #8 | – | 2011 | |
| 4 | Techno Fan | 3 | #12 | – | 2011 | |
| 5 | Your Body Is a Weapon | 4 | #25 | – | 2013 | |
| 6 | Turn | 4 | #12 | – | 2018 | |
| 7 | Give Me A Try | 6 | #56 | – | 2016 | |
| 8 | Greek Tragedy | 4 | #29 | – | 2015 | |
| 9 | Tokyo | 2 | #20 | – | 2011 | |
| 10 | If You Ever Leave, I'm Coming With You | 3 | #32 | – | 2021 | |
| 11 | Lemon to a Knife Fight | 1 | #22 | – | 2017 | |
| 12 | 1996 | 1 | #24 | – | 2011 | |
| 13 | Running Up That Hill (originally by Kate Bush) | 1 | #46 | – | – | |
| 14 | Moving to New York | 1 | #568 | – | – | |
| 15 | Cheetah Tongue | 1 | #69 | – | 2018 | |
| 16 | Bee-Sting | 1 | #83 | – | 2018 | |
| 17 | Is This What It Feels Like to Feel Like This? | 1 | #82 | – | 2022 | |
| 18 | Be Your Shadow | 1 | #91 | – | 2015 | |
| 19 | Our Perfect Disease | 1 | #94 | – | 2011 | |
| 20 | Kill The Director | 1 | #1993 | – | – |
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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