Robbed hit of the week 2/12/24 - Good Charlotte's "The Anthem"...

 

 

"The Anthem" - Good Charlotte

from the album The Young and the Hopeless (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #43 (two weeks)

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the pop-punk band Good Charlotte, who broke through to the mainstream in American in the beginning of 2003 with their top-20 pop hit "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".  The second single from their Young and the Hopeless album was "The Anthem". Written by Benji and Joel Madden from the band along with John Feldmann, the lyrics are aimed at the slackers in their 20s, mocking the those towing the line. It's nothing too inciting though, just the snarky pop-punk fare that's been around. But it stuck, and while it wasn't as big of a pop success as its predecessor, it had legs, and is now their biggest-streaming song of their entire catalog...

While "The Anthem" almost made the top ten on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart at #11, and hit #10 on their Alternative Rock radio list, the song stalled right under the top-40 on the all-encompassing Hot 100 in April of 2003. Internationally, the single reached #10 in the United Kingdom, and made the top-40 in Australia (#14), New Zealand (#27), Sweden (#28), and Ireland (#34).

 

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Good Charlotte performed "The Anthem" on the Tonight Show in 2003..

Next up, in concert in Florida that same year...

 

 and lastly, at a music festival in 2011..