Robbed hit of the week 1/16/23 - U2's "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of"...
from the album All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #52 (two weeks)
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the Irish group U2, who returned to their anthemic rock glory with their Grammy-winning top-40 pop hit "Beautiful Day" in the beginning of 2001.
The second single from All That You Can't Leave Behind in America was "Walk On",
which was dedicated to Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Aung San Suu Kyi. The track got to #2 at Triple-A rock stations, #10 on
the Alternative Rock chart, #19 on Mainstream Rock radio, and #21 on the
Adult Top-40 format, but only "bubbled under" the pop Hot 100 at #118.
Nevertheless, it won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 2002, and was
nominated for Best Rock Song (losing to Train's "Drops Of Jupiter"). A
year later, the live performance of the song on the 9/11 charity gig America: A Tribute To The Heroes broadcast had it nominated for Best Rock Duo/Group Performance, which Coldplay took home for "In My Place".
In the late summer of 2001, U2 released in America they put as the second single from their album internationally at the start of the year. "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of", written by the band's Bono and the Edge, was inspired by the death of friend and fellow frontman (of INXS) Michael Hutchence. who had ended his life in 1997. In the song Bono creates a fictional conversation that has him trying to talk Hutchence out of it. The results is a gentle hymn that builds to a medium energy mantra. There were multiple music videos shot for the song. The international version, done by Kevin Godley of the Godley & Creme duo, has Bono continuously thrown from a van for some reason...
While "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" climbed to #27 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart, the single stalled under the halfway mark on the Hot 100 (which included sales) in October of 2001. The song also made it to #9 on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format, while getting to #35 on both the Mainstream and Alternative rock radio charts. Internationally, the single topped the chart in Canada, Ireland, and Italy, while reaching the top ten in the United Kingdom (#2), Spain (#2), Portugal (#2), Australia (#3), Norway (#4), Denmark (#9), and Finland (#10). It also hit the top-40 in the Netherlands (#12), New Zealand (#17), Sweden (#23), France (#31), Belgium (#31 Flanders/#33 Wallonia), Austria (#38), Switzerland (#38), and Germany (#40). At the Grammy Awards in 2002, "Stuck" was nominated for Song of the Year, losing to Alicia Keys' "Fallin'", but won Best Duo/Group Pop Vocal Performance.
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The American version of the music video aptly cast the song in a football setting ("American" football, that is..)...
A third performance video was shot in the south of France...
Here's a live television appearance of the song....
...and in concert on the tour behind the album in 2001 in Boston...
Lastly, from 2011, Bono and the Edge did an acoustic take...
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