Robbed hit of the week 11/23/20 - Oasis' "D'You Know What I Mean"...

 

 

"D'You Know What I Mean?" -  Oasis

from the album Be Here Now (1997)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart

Billboard Hot 100 Airplay Peak: #49

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the British rock band Oasis, whose second album (What's The Story) Morning Glory? had granted them a top ten pop hit in America with "Wonderwall", along with the top-20 radio hit "Champagne Supernova".  In 1997 the band, fronted by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, returned with their third record Be Here Now. The lead single, "D'You Know What I Mean", written by Noel, who produced the track with Owen Morris, was meant to be a sort of grand statement in the pattern of their heroes, the Beatles, but the result seems quite a bit muddled, hindered by his jet-setting lifestyle clouding his vision...

The British public still was rabid for the band's Britpop sound, making it their third #1 hit in the UK, but in America, where the song wasn't released as a a commercially-available single and as such wasn't able to place on Billboard magazine's official Hot 100 pop chart, only managed to barely make the top half of the airplay portion of the tally in August of 1997. The track got a better reception on rock radio in the States, peaking at #4 on Billboard's Alternative Rock radio chart, and #36 on their Mainstream Rock format list. Internationally, besides topping the British chart, the single went to #1 in Spain, Ireland, and Finland, and reached the top ten in Sweden (#2), Italy (#3), Norway (#3), New Zealand (#4), Denmark (#6), and Iceland (#9). It also got to #27 in Germany, #28 in Canada, and #37 in France. The Be Here Now album, released in August as the song was peaking on radio, actually became their highing ranking album in the U.S. at #2, going on to sell over a million copies (though their last set sold a lot more). (Another track from the record will be an upcoming Song of the Day.)

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Here's the band performing the song live in concert in 1997...

and again for a show carried by MTV in 2002...

In 2016, Liam Gallagher, unhappy with the original result, remixed the song for the album's re-release that year. The video was also adjusted by the original directors, with added footage...