Higher
1999
Stapp built it from a recurring dream he learned to control, and it sat atop Mainstream Rock for seventeen weeks.
★ 1.4
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The Reason
2004
Estrin mailed Robb an instrumental demo; the lyrics came from scraps in a journal, the strings from Capitol.
★ 1.7
Wherever You Will Go
2001
Kamin wrote it after a funeral, imagining the widower left behind; it then held Adult Top 40 for twenty-three weeks.
★ 2.0
Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
2000
Twelve weeks at number one on Alternative Airplay, with Brett Scallions selling every syllable of Carl Bell's chorus.
★ 2.4
Outside
2001
Lewis finished the words onstage in Biloxi with Fred Durst singing along, and that live take became the hit.
★ 2.4
Blurry
2001
Alone in a Hollywood hotel room missing his son, Scantlin turned the ache into ten weeks atop Mainstream Rock.
★ 2.5
When I'm Gone
2002
Brad Arnold and the band shot the video aboard the USS George Washington, then held Mainstream Rock seventeen weeks.
★ 2.6
Everything You Want
1999
Scannell wrote it about a friendship he wanted to be more, and it became Billboard's most-played single of 2000.
★ 2.7
How You Remind Me
2001
Forty-five minutes to an hour, by Kroeger's account, then more US radio plays than any song of the decade.
★ 3.0
It's Been Awhile
2001
Written in 1996 for an acoustic side project and shelved, it returned to spend twenty weeks atop Mainstream Rock.
★ 3.3
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Hanging by a Moment
2001
Wade wrote it in about five minutes, and it never hit number one yet finished 2001 as America's biggest single.
★ 3.3
Wish You Were Here (Incubus)
2001
Written late in the Malibu sessions on the street that gave the album its name, Boyd making stillness sound enormous.
★ 4.4
Shine
1993
A basement demo meant only for publishers, until an Atlanta college station put it into rotation and Atlantic came calling.
★ 4.6
Kryptonite
2000
Fifteen years old and stuck in a math class when Arnold wrote it; he sang it from the drum stool.
★ 5.1
You Oughta Know
1995
Flea on bass and Dave Navarro on guitar, recorded in Glen Ballard's home studio, behind the nineties' fiercest kiss-off.
★ 7.4
Everlong
1997
Drums by Grohl, Hawkins not yet in the band, and Louise Post's backing vocals sung down a phone from Chicago.
★ 7.7