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Kill Hannah

Band Chicago United States Active 1995–2015

Kill Hannah formed in 1995 in Chicago, United States and was active until 2015. Kill Hannah has 22 chart appearances on 16 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2003–2014. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Kennedy”, which appears on 13 lists with a best position of #27. The station that charted Kill Hannah most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 18 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2003.

22appearances

16countdowns

2songs charted

5stations

0#1 finishes

2003–2014years

Kill Hannah got its name the petty way. Mat Devine, at the time the singer and guitarist of an outfit named In a Jar UK, fell out with his girlfriend Hannah and slapped stickers reading "Kill Hannah" on that band's 7-inch records. The name stuck to the new band he built around his own songs, with Jonathan Radtke and drummer Garrett Hammond, there from 1997 to 2006, among its members. For years the records ran on a patron's money: entertainment lawyer Jack Daulton paid for everything they made between 1996 and 2000.

Atlantic signed them late in 2002, and For Never and Ever was cut in Los Angeles in the winter of 2003 with producer Sean Beavan and mixer Tim Palmer, mostly fresh recordings of songs they had been playing for a while. "Kennedy" is the one that carried them onto rock radio: glossy guitars, a sheen of synth and a chorus pitched somewhere between the dancefloor and the bedroom mirror. Until There's Nothing Left of Us followed in 2006 with "Lips Like Morphine", a slow-burning, velvet-lined seduction.

All told, Kill Hannah put out six studio albums, seven EPs and a pile of odds and ends before winding down in 2015, with Elias Mallin behind the kit at the end.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Kill Hannah on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Kennedy	318	13	#27	–	2003
2	Lips Like Morphine	216	9	#63	–	2006

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.

03 06

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2014	1818	Lips Like Morphine	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)
2013	1755	Lips Like Morphine	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2013	1943	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)
2011	1683	Lips Like Morphine	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2011	1874	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)
2010	1617	Lips Like Morphine	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2010	1798	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)
2009	1582	Lips Like Morphine	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2009	1757	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)
2008	1565	Lips Like Morphine	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2008	1801	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)
2007	1304	Lips Like Morphine	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2007	1815	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2006	63	Lips Like Morphine	The End Top 107 Songs of 2006
2006	65	Lips Like Morphine	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2006
2005	1922	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)
2004	1939	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)
2003	73	Kennedy	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2003
2003	32	Kennedy	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003
2003	27	Kennedy	KDGE Top 102 Songs of 2003
2003	38 (tie)	Kennedy	WBER Listener Countdown 2003
2003	1938	Kennedy	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)

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