Artist · chart history
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Band United Kingdom Active 1984–2016
Curiosity Killed the Cat formed in 1984 in the United Kingdom and was active until 2016. Curiosity Killed the Cat has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1987–1988. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Down To Earth”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #44. The station that charted Curiosity Killed the Cat most often is Live 105 (San Francisco, CA), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1987.
Curiosity Killed the Cat were London pop with a smooth finish: singer Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot out front, Julian Godfrey Brookhouse on guitar, Nick Thorpe on bass and Migi Drummond on drums, playing smooth, jazzy, funk-flecked pop with a lightness of touch that made it all sound effortless.
Keep Your Distance, their debut on Mercury Records, went to number one in the UK in 1987 and threw off three top 20 hits, the breezy "Down to Earth", "Misfit" and "Ordinary Day". Getahead followed in 1989 with another top 20 single in "Name and Number".
Thorpe left in 1991, and the other three carried on as plain Curiosity, making one last album, Back to Front, in 1994. It gave them a top 5 hit with "Hang On in There Baby", and since then they have got back together now and then.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Curiosity Killed the Cat on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down To Earth | 1 | #44 | – | 1987 | |
| 2 | Down the Earth | 1 | #433 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 433 | Down the Earth | Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) |
| 1987 | 44 | Down To Earth | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1987 |
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