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"How You Remind Me"
Song
B-side"Little Friend"

"How You Remind Me" is a single from rock band Nickelback's 2001 album, Silver Side Up. A "Gold Mix" was made for latter editions of the single with the heavier guitars edited out of the chorus. This single would be the last rock single to be #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 until Maroon 5's song "Makes Me Wonder" went to #1 six years later. Lead vocalist and guitarist Chad Kroeger wrote the song about his old girlfriend Jodi, with whom he had a dysfunctional relationship.[1] He refers to this song as the song that put Nickelback on the map as referred to their concert in Sturgis. It is often considered to be the band's signature song.

"How You Remind Me" was named the #1 most played song on U.S. radio of the decade by Nielsen Soundscan, being spun over 1.2 million times on U.S. airwaves since its release in 2001.[2] The song was named 4th on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade and 75th in the UK decade Chart.[3]

Chart performances and awards

The single was also released in that year, reaching the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for 4 weeks while it topped both the Mainstream and Modern Rock charts for 13 weeks. Outside the U.S., the song became a worldwide hit, it was #4 on the UK Singles Chart, and #1 on the Irish Singles Chart. Due to its high sales and massive airplay, it was ranked as the top single of 2002 by Billboard magazine. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2005, for sales of over 500,000 copies, and by late 2010 it had sold around 860,000 copies total.[4]

The song went on to rack up four Billboard Awards, four Juno awards, and countless radio accreditations. "How You Remind Me" was the #1 Most Played Song of 2002 in the United States, across all formats, according to Billboard Monitor. In 2002, the song was nominated for Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

"How You Remind Me" was the #1 song on the Billboard's 2002 Year-End Hot 100 Singles Chart,

VH1 ranked the song as the 16th Greatest Power Ballad.[5]

The song was listed at #36 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.[1]

The song also hit #1 on the Kerrang! feature, 21st Century's Official 100 Rock Best Sellers, beating its fellow Nickelback's hit, "Rockstar", to the number-one spot.

The song was the 75th best-selling single of the 2000s in the UK.[6]

In Germany, it's not just the band's best charting single by reaching No. 3 on the German Singles Chart, it's also Nickelback's longest-staying single on that chart, namely a total of 30 weeks.[7]

Music video

The successful music video for "How You Remind Me" featured Nickelback playing a small venue with focus on a female audience member. Chad Kroeger admitted to disliking the idea of a small venue performance at first, opting for a bigger scale arena concert; however, he found the outcome of the video satisfying.

In the music video, Chad Kroeger plays a man whose girlfriend (played by model Annie Henley) has left him and is still haunted by her memory. He still feels strongly for her, and sees her everywhere he goes. Whenever he imagines her touch, he feels a warm memory, indicated by the change in lighting in the video. As the music video progresses, he starts to get over her. At the end, she shows up and apparently asks him to forgive her. This is what he had wanted all along, but suddenly he realizes that it isn't really what he wanted, and pushes her away. She is left with a broken heart and haunted by memories, as he had been at the beginning of the video.

Another version of the video exists, and has been played on some UK and Australian music channels. The video simply features the footage of the band playing from the main video, added to footage of the band's live performances and tour movies.

Track listings

CD single
  1. "How You Remind Me" (Album version) - 3:45
  2. "How You Remind Me" (Acoustic) 3:30
  3. "Little Friend" - 3:48
CD maxi
  1. "How You Remind Me" (Gold Mix) — 3:45
  2. "How You Remind Me" (LP Version) — 3:30
  3. "Little Friend" - 3:48
  4. "How You Remind Me" (Video)

Release history

Country Release Date
United States August 21, 2001 (2001-08-21)
United Kingdom March 25, 2002 (2002-03-25)

Charts and sales

Chart successions

Order of precedence
Preceded by Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single
15 September – 8 December 2001 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
22 September 2001 – 15 December 2001 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard Top 40 Mainstream number-one single
22 December 2001 – 23 February 2002 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number one single
22 December 2001 – 12 January 2002 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"L'Amour toujours" by Gigi D'Agostino
 Danish number-one single
25 January 2002 – 1 February 2002 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Austrian number-one single
10 February 2002
24 February 2002
Preceded by Irish IRMA number-one single
13 April 2002 – 11 May 2002 		Succeeded by
"Here Come The Good Times"
by Ireland World Cup Squad
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 Number one single of the year
2002 		Succeeded by

Footnotes

  1. ^ How You Remind Me Songfacts
  2. ^ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1627833/20091208/eminem.jhtml
  3. ^ Hot 100 Decade Songs
  4. ^ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/71727/week-ending-dec-19-2010-michael-wouldnt-have-liked-this/;_ylt=Ao_5D5Bh3vZSb0zY0UgSYsoPwiUv?page=2#comments
  5. ^ http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/66390/episode_countdown.jhtml
  6. ^ Radio 1 Chart of the Decade, as presented by Nihal on Tuesday 29th December 2009
  7. ^ http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/NICKELBACK/single
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "How You Reming Me", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved 10 April 2008)
  9. ^ a b "Single top 100 over 2002" (pdf) (in Dutch). Top40. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  10. ^ "Nickelback singles, German Singles Chart" (in German). musicline. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  11. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved 10 April 2008)
  12. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved 10 April 2008)
  13. ^ a b c d Billboard allmusic.com (Retrieved 10 April 2008)
  14. ^ 2002 Australian Singles Chart aria.com (Retrieved August 8, 2008)
  15. ^ 2002 Austrian Singles Chart Austriancharts.at (Retrieved 8 Augus2008)
  16. ^ 2002 Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  17. ^ 2002 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  18. ^ 2002 French Singles Chart Ifop.com (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  19. ^ 2002 Irish Singles Chart Irma.ie (Retrieved December 11, 2008)
  20. ^ 2002 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  21. ^ 2002 UK Singles Chart ChartsPlus (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  22. ^ Australian certifications aria.com (Retrieved 1 August 2008)
  23. ^ Austrian certifications ifpi.at (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  24. ^ Belgian certifications Ultratop.be (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  25. ^ French certifications Disqueenfrance.com (Retrieved 1 August 2008)
  26. ^ Template:Cite gold platin
  27. ^ Swiss certifications Swisscharts.com (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  28. ^ UK certifications Bpi.co.uk (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
  29. ^ U.S. certifications riaa.com (Retrieved 8 August 2008)
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