D:Ream was a Northern Irish pop rock / synthpop and dance band of the 1990s. They had one UK Number One hit with the re-release of "Things Can Only Get Better"; two Top 10 hits coupled with four Top 20 hits: the re-release of "U R The Best Thing", "Take Me Away", "Party Up the World", and the second re-release of "Things Can Only Get Better"; plus five other releases that all reached the UK Singles Chart.
Between 1992 and 1997, the period during which they were active, the band released two studio albums (D:Ream On Volume 1 and World), ten different singles (some of them re-released twice or three times, until totally reaching fourteen singles - but two tracks were featured together on a double A-side single), and an official greatest hits album (The Best of D:Ream). In 2006, a second collection was released, for The Platinum Collection series.
When D:Ream became famous the main members were Peter Cunnah (vocalist, songwriter), Al Mackenzie (musician) and Cian McCarthy (producer), although later the group would become a one man band, exclusively centred upon the singer. Another member, Brian Cox played keyboards for several years in D:Ream, while studying for his PhD. Drumtech trained Mark Roberts played drums. There were a number of vocalists who changed over time such as T.J. Davis, who is featured as co-lead vocalist on "The Power (Of All the Love in the World)", one of the singles taken from their second album, World as well as providing backing vocals on many other songs. Cox is currently working on the Large Hadron Collider project.
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