Artist · chart history
Kev Carmody
Solo artist Cairns
Kev Carmody is an artist from Cairns. Kev Carmody has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2018. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “From Little Things Big Things Grow”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #70. The station that charted Kev Carmody most often is Triple M (Australia (national network)), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1993.
Kev Carmody, born in 1946, is an Aboriginal Australian singer-songwriter, a Murri man from northern Queensland, known as much for his activism for Aboriginal rights as for his songs. His music is acoustic and plainspoken, closer to a campfire than a stadium, and it carries more weight for it.
His best-known song is "From Little Things Big Things Grow", which he wrote with Paul Kelly; the two recorded it together for a 1993 single, and it sat on Bloodlines, his 1993 album, alongside "Freedom". The song kept growing: in 2008 a cover by the Get Up Mob, with both Carmody and Kelly guesting, reached number four on the ARIA singles chart.
The honors have followed. In 2009 he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and named one of the Queensland Greats, and in 2019 he received the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kev Carmody on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From Little Things Big Things Grow | 1 | #70 | – | – | |
| 2 | Freedom | 1 | #98 | – | 1993 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 70 | From Little Things Big Things Grow | Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018) |
| 1993 | 98 | Freedom | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1993 |
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