Artist · chart history
Something Corporate
Band Santa Monica United States Formed 1998
Something Corporate formed in 1998 in Santa Monica, United States. Something Corporate has 24 chart appearances on 22 radio countdowns from 17 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2022. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Space”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #54. The station that charted Something Corporate most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Something Corporate came together in California in 1998 around Andrew McMahon, a singer who played piano instead of guitar and made that the whole point of the band. With Josh Partington and William Tell on guitars, Kevin Page on bass and Brian Ireland on drums, they mixed pop-punk urgency with power-pop hooks and a big, rolling keyboard sound that set them apart from the rest of the Drive-Thru Records crowd.
Their demos became an independent album, Ready... Break, and then MCA signed them, putting the Audioboxer EP out under the Drive-Thru banner. "If You C Jordan" was the song that broke them, a snarling, piano-pounding rocker that climbed to number 29 on the Alternative Songs chart. Leaving Through the Window followed in 2002 with "I Woke Up in a Car", all breathless piano runs and wide-eyed emo yearning, and it topped the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. North in 2003 got moodier and more grown-up, with "Space" and "Ruthless".
They went on hiatus in 2004, and McMahon found success with his side project, Jack's Mannequin. The band reunited to tour in 2010, played a surprise show for McMahon's 40th birthday in 2022, and turned up at the When We Were Young Festival in 2023. By McMahon's count they'd sold over 1 million records in their first ten years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Something Corporate on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Space | 9 | #54 | – | 2003 | |
| 2 | I Woke Up in a Car | 4 | #20 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Ruthless | 4 | #27 | – | 2004 | |
| 4 | If U C Jordan | 2 | #40 | – | 2002 | |
| 5 | If You C Jordan | 4 | #82 | – | 2002 | |
| 6 | I Stand Alone | 1 | #73 | – | 2002 |
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.
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