Songoftheday 11/22/20 - You've got your ball you got your chain, tied to me tight tie me up again...
"Crash Into Me" - Dave Matthews Band
from the album Crash (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #19 (one week)
Weeks in the Airplay Top-40: 39
Today's song of the day comes from the Dave Matthews Band, whose second studio album, Crash, had its lead promo single "Too Much" reach the pop airplay top-40, while a second, "So Much To Say", won a Grammy Award for Best Group/Duo Rock Vocal Performance. The third song pushed to radio from the set was the ballad "Crash Into Me". Written by Matthews and produced by Steve Lilywhite, the song details unrequited (and almost stalkerish) love. Nevertheless, it became the band's biggest radio hit...
Since "Crash Into Me" wasn't released as a commercially-available single, it wasn't able to place on Billboard magazine's official Hot 100 pop chart. However the song got so much radio love that it spent a full year on the airplay component of the list, making the top-20 in August of 1997. The track climbed to #7 on Billboard's Alternative Rock radio chart, #2 on the Triple-A (Adult Album Alternative) tally, and also went to #9 on their Adult Top-40 format list. Internationally, the single went to #30 in Canada. At the Grammy Awards in 1998, "Crash Into Me" was nominated in two categories, for Best Rock Song and Best Duo/Group Rock Vocal Performance, both of which went to the Wallflowers for "One Headlight".
Two more songs from Crash reached the American rock radio charts, with "Two Step" getting to #11 on the Triple-A format, and "Tripping Billies" peaking at #6 there, and #18 on the Alternative Rock list. The latter also was a minor hit in Canada at #76.
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Here's the band performing "Crash Into Me" at Farm Aid in 1997...
and next in concert on their Listener Supported show in 1999...
and finally at Folsom Field in Colorado in 2002...
up tomorrow: The lasses do some long division.
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