Robbed hit of the week 8/12/19 - The Offspring's "Self-Esteem"...

"Self-Esteem" - The Offspring
from the album Smash (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #45

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the pop-punk band The Offspring, who had broken through to mainstream radio with their song "Come Out And Play (Keep 'Em Separated)", which reached the top-40 on Billboard magazine's pop airplay chart, but was unable to appear on the official Hot 100 because it wasn't released as a commercially available "single". The same was true for their next offering to American radio, "Self-Esteem". Written by lead singer Dexter Holland and produced by Thom Wilson, the grunge-style guitar shredder again proved to be a big hit on the airwaves, and impetus to buy their album...

Since "Self-Esteem" had no American single release, it only was able to appear on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart, just missing the Top-40 there in December of 1994. The song did reach the top ten on both the Mainstream (#7) and Alternative (#4) rock radio charts here, however. Internationally, where the song did get a physical release, it became one of their biggest hits, going to #1 in Sweden and Norway, and reaching the top ten in Finland (#3), Germany (#4), the Netherlands (#4), Austria (#4), Australia (#6), and Belgium (#7). "Self Esteem" also made the top-40 in France (#20), Ireland (#27), Canada (#34), the UK (#37), and New Zealand (#39).

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Here's the band at Glastonbury in 1995...