sorting archives by month

I want to pull information on 'archives' from a database - I need to show each month that content was added and how many posts there are.

E.g.
October, 05: 1 posts
September, 05: 5 posts
August, 05: 4 posts

..and so on. I thought KNOW I'd figured it out before and got it working but I must have changed something because (before I 'lost' the code) I got the months times by amount of posts:

# October, 05
# September, 05
# September, 05
# September, 05
# September, 05
# September, 05
# August, 05
# August, 05
# August, 05
# August, 05

..and so on.

The month is stored in a 'normal' date format (YYYY-MM-DD). Any help would be appreciated, ask if you need more info from me. I don't have the original code I was working on (I have to start from scratch) so please don't ask, sorry :(

SOLVED Thanks :D