In October 2011 Kimbra received the New Zealand Critics' Choice Prize for up-and-coming acts, who the judges believe are destined for greatness the award comprised a NZ$10,000 recording and music video grant, and a NZ$2000 Rockshop gift voucher. The song was covered in the television programme Glee in early 2012. It ended 2011 at #5 on the top selling singles for the year in New Zealand. The song went on to reach #1 on the Austrian Top 75, Belgian Top 50, Bulgarian Top 40, Canadian Top 100, Danish Top 40, Dutch Top 40, Finnish Top 20, French Top 100, German Top 100, Irish Top 50, Portugese Top 50, Swedish Top 60, UK top 75, USA Singles Top 100, and has charted in Norway (peaking at #2), Spain (#3) and Switzerland (#2). The digital download-only single peaked at #1 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart and entered the New Zealand Charts at #4, moving up to #1 on 12 September 2011. In 2011, Kimbra also featured on the release Somebody That I Used to Know by Australian artist Gotye. Later in 2012, the album briefly entered the Polish (peak #23) and Dutch (peak #95) album charts. In May 2012 Vows was released in the United States, and entered the charts at #14, although it fell to #45 the following week, spending four weeks in the charts overall. Vows also went to #4 in the Australian charts. On the back of this release, her single Settle Down entered at #37 on the New Zealand singles chart, although left the chart the following week. Her debut album, Vows, was released on 29 August 2011, and entered the official New Zealand charts at #4 (peaking at #3) it ended the year as the 10th largest selling New Zealand album for 2011. In 2011 Kimbra signed to Warner Bros Records, and was named by Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton as "one to watch".
In that year she also featured on the Nesian Mystic song Mr Mista, which reached #3 and spent 17 weeks in the New Zealand charts. In 2008, she signed a contract with Australian company Freemantle Media, leaving Hamilton for Melbourne following a performance at the Hamilton Gardens summer festival. She also performed at the 2007 Hamilton Circle Jerk, covering songs by Amy Racecar and This Night Creeps. In 2007 Kimbra duetted with Gian Perrone on the Dynamo Go song Sad Again, which was released on the Affordable Pop Music EP. Ireland rubgy test match at Waikato Stadium. In June 2006 Kimbra sang in front of 30000 people at an All Blacks vs. In 2005 she placed in the 31st to 50th place bracket of the same competition with the song Reminisce.Įarly public performances by Kimbra included singing at the Waikato Times Gold Cup race meeting in 2000 as a ten year old, and at twelve singing the national anthem before 27000 people at the Auckland vs Waikato NPC rugby final. Kimbra entered the first Play it Strange National Secondary Schools Songwriting Competition in 2004, making the top 10 of over 300 entrants, and from this had the song It Takes Time included on the Play It Strange Top 20 Volume 1 compilation.
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