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Something For Kate

Band Melbourne Australia Formed 1994

Something For Kate formed in 1994 in Melbourne, Australia. Something For Kate has 17 chart appearances on 11 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1997–2023. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Monsters”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Something For Kate most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 17 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.

17appearances

11countdowns

16songs charted

1stations

0#1 finishes

1997–2023years

Something for Kate got going in Melbourne in 1994 around Paul Dempsey, singing and playing guitar, and Clint Hyndman on drums. The bass spot changed hands a couple of times before Stephanie Ashworth took it over in 1998, adding backing vocals, and that trio has been the band ever since.

Their songs brood and then bloom, the guitars shimmering one moment and slamming the next, and the records climbed accordingly. Beautiful Sharks in 1999 and Echolalia in 2001 both went top 10 on the ARIA albums chart, Echolalia bringing "Monsters", the churning "Three Dimensions" and "Twenty Years". The Official Fiction in 2003, home of "Déjà Vu" and "Song for a Sleepwalker", went all the way to number one on that chart, and Desert Lights, with "Cigarettes and Suitcases", did the same in 2006. Leave Your Soul to Science made the top 10 in 2012, and all told there are seven studio albums on the shelf.

The ARIA Awards nominated them 11 times across 1999, 2001 and 2003. And they know their way around somebody else's song: they've taken on Taylor Swift's "Cardigan" and Calvin Harris and Florence Welch's "Sweet Nothing".

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

Songs by Something For Kate on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Monsters	112	2	#2	–	2001
2	Déjà Vu	90	1	#11	–	2003
3	Three Dimensions	88	1	#13	–	2001
4	Twenty Years	64	1	#37	–	2001
5	Captain (Million Miles)	62	1	#39	–	1997
6	Electricity	57	1	#44	–	1999
7	Sweet Nothing (originally by Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch)	56	1	#45	–	–
8	Cigarettes and Suitcases	50	1	#51	–	2006
9	Beautiful Sharks	42	1	#59	–	2000
10	Say Something	38	1	#63	–	2002
11	Song For A Sleepwalker	38	1	#63	–	2003
12	Cardigan (originally by Taylor Swift)	35	1	#66	–	–
13	Sweet Nothing (Like a Version)	33	1	#68	–	2013
14	Whatever You Want	31	1	#70	–	1999
15	Hallways	29	1	#72	–	1999
16	Harpoon	16	1	#85	–	1998

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.

97 98 99 00 01 02 03 06 13

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2023	45	Sweet Nothing (originally by Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch)	Triple J Hottest 100 of Like a Version (2023)
2023	66	Cardigan (originally by Taylor Swift)	Triple J Hottest 100 of Like a Version (2023)
2013	68	Sweet Nothing (Like a Version)	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2013
2013	88	Monsters	Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013)
2006	51	Cigarettes and Suitcases	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2006
2003	11	Déjà Vu	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003
2003	63	Song For A Sleepwalker	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2003
2002	63	Say Something	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2002
2001	2	Monsters	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001
2001	13	Three Dimensions	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001
2001	37	Twenty Years	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001
2000	59	Beautiful Sharks	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000
1999	44	Electricity	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999
1999	70	Whatever You Want	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999
1999	72	Hallways	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999
1998	85	Harpoon	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1998
1997	39	Captain (Million Miles)	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997

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