Artist · chart history
Cub Sport
Band Brisbane Australia Formed 2010 Australian pop, previously "Cub Scouts"
Cub Sport formed in 2010 in Brisbane, Australia. Cub Sport has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2016–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Come On Mess Me Up”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #24. The station that charted Cub Sport most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 6 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2016.
Cub Sport formed in Brisbane in early 2010, and four mainstays have been there from the start: Tim Nelson on lead vocals and keyboards, Zoe Davis on keyboards, bass, lead guitar and vocals, Sam "Bolan" Netterfield on keyboards and vocals, and Dan Puusaari on drums. What they make is pop, but tender and fragile pop, full of hushed falsettos and soft-focus synths that feel like a secret whispered at the end of a party.
This Is Our Vice, their 2016 debut on Nettwerk, carried "Come On Mess Me Up", a swoony, heart-on-sleeve slow-burn. Bats followed in 2017 with the glowing "Chasin'", and in August 2018 Nelson and Netterfield married. The self-titled Cub Sport in 2019 opened up even further, with "Sometimes" and "Party Pill" floating along on dreamy, shimmering textures, and it reached number twelve on the ARIA Albums Chart. They also turned in a delicate, spectral take on Billie Eilish's "when the party's over".
Like Nirvana followed in 2020 and reached number two, and Jesus at the Gay Bar went all the way to number one in 2023.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cub Sport on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come On Mess Me Up | 2 | #24 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | Sometimes | 1 | #30 | – | 2018 | |
| 3 | when the party's over (originally by Billie Eilish) | 1 | #36 | – | – | |
| 4 | Party Pill | 1 | #73 | – | 2019 | |
| 5 | Chasin' | 1 | #96 | – | 2017 |
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.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 36 | when the party's over (originally by Billie Eilish) | Triple J Hottest 100 of Like a Version (2023) |
| 2020 | 81 | Come On Mess Me Up | Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s (2020) |
| 2019 | 73 | Party Pill | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019 |
| 2018 | 30 | Sometimes | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018 |
| 2017 | 96 | Chasin' | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017 |
| 2016 | 24 | Come On Mess Me Up | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2016 |
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