Artist · chart history
Kittie
Band London Canada Formed 1996 Canadian heavy metal band
Kittie formed in 1996 in London, Canada. Kittie has 13 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2007. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Brackish”, which appears on 4 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted Kittie most often is WCCC The Rock (Hartford, CT), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
Kittie came roaring out of London, Ontario, a band started in 1996 by guitarist Fallon Bowman and drummer Mercedes Lander, with Morgan Lander on guitar and lead vocals and Tanya Candler on bass soon joining them. They picked the name because it seemed contradictory, and the joke landed: nobody expecting a cute name was ready for the sound they made.
Spit, their 1999 debut on Ng Records, got a wider release from Artemis the following year and went gold, selling at least 600,000 copies in America. It's nu metal with teeth, riffs like girders being dropped down a stairwell, with "Brackish" and "Charlotte" hitting like a pair of slammed doors. Oracle in 2001 and Until the End in 2004 got heavier and more vicious while holding on to melody, with shades of groove and death metal, though neither matched the success of the first album.
The lineup has turned over again and again around Morgan and Mercedes Lander, the band's only constants. After leaving Artemis in 2005 they launched their own label, X of Infamy, for Funeral for Yesterday in 2007, made two more albums for eOne, then went on hiatus after I've Failed You in 2011. A documentary and a one-off reunion show in 2018 stirred things up again, festival dates followed in 2022, and in June 2024 Fire became their first album in 13 years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Kittie on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brackish | 4 | #9 | – | 2000 | |
| 2 | Run Like Hell | 2 | #57 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Charlotte | 4 | #66 | – | 2000 | |
| 4 | What I Always Wanted | 2 | #77 | – | 2001 | |
| 5 | Funeral for Yesterday | 1 | #59 | – | 2007 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 59 | Funeral for Yesterday | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2007 |
| 2002 | 57 | Run Like Hell | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2002 |
| 2002 | 81 (tie) | Run Like Hell | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 |
| 2001 | 77 | What I Always Wanted | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 112 (tie) | What I Always Wanted | WBER Listener Countdown 2001 |
| 2000 | 68 | Brackish | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2000 |
| 2000 | 94 | Charlotte | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2000 |
| 2000 | 75 | Charlotte | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000 |
| 2000 | 21 | Brackish | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2000 |
| 2000 | 66 | Charlotte | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2000 |
| 2000 | 9 | Brackish | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 |
| 2000 | 67 | Brackish | WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K |
| 2000 | 75 | Charlotte | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 |
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