Artist · chart history
The Bird And The Bee
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 2006
The Bird And The Bee formed in 2006 in Los Angeles, United States. The Bird And The Bee has 6 chart appearances on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations on RockLists, spanning 2009–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Polite Dance Song”, which appears on 2 lists with a best position of #240. The station that charted The Bird And The Bee most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Los Angeles has always been good at making sunshine sound a little sly, and the Bird and the Bee do it with a wink. Inara George is the bird and Greg Kurstin is the bee; the pair met while they were working on George's debut album and decided their chemistry deserved a project of its own. What they cooked up in 2006 was electropop with a jazz habit: cooing, featherlight vocals over candy-colored keyboards and grooves that could pass for lounge music from some shiny future.
Their first EP, Again and Again and Again and Again, landed on Halloween 2006, and the self-titled album followed on January 23, 2007, with Blue Note, of all labels, behind them. The 2007 EP Please Clap Your Hands brought "Polite Dance Song", every bit as prim and perky as the title promises, and 2009's Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future pushed the retro-futurist gloss further on "My Love".
Kurstin, meanwhile, has built a second life behind the desk: he's a nine-time Grammy winner as a producer and multi-instrumentalist, with credits for Adele, Sia, Beck, Kendrick Lamar and the Foo Fighters.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Bird And The Bee on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polite Dance Song | 2 | #240 | – | – | |
| 2 | Again And Again | 1 | #373 | – | – | |
| 3 | Kiss On My List | 1 | #45 | – | 2010 | |
| 4 | La La La | 1 | #696 | – | – | |
| 5 | My Love | 1 | #77 | – | 2009 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 852 | Polite Dance Song | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now |
| 2022 | 240 | Polite Dance Song | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s |
| 2022 | 696 | La La La | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s |
| 2018 | 373 | Again And Again | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 |
| 2010 | 45 | Kiss On My List | Impact 89FM Top 89 of 2010 |
| 2009 | 77 | My Love | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2009 |
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