Robbed hit of the week 4/22/24 - Simple Plan's "Addicted"...

 

 

"Addicted" - Simple Plan

from the album No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #45 

 

This week's 'robbed hit' comes from the Canadian pop-punk band Simple Plan, whose breakthrough hit in America, "I'd Do Anything", had stopped right under the halfway mark on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart in the spring of 2003. The next single from their debut album No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls was "Addicted", written by the band with producer Arnold Lanni. The lyrics have lead single Pierre Bouvier bitter over a breakup with him lamenting "I can't pretend I don't care when you don't think about me,do you think I deserve this?". There's no rehashing on what caused the split, though he beats himself up for being "a dick" though he "tried to make you happy". It's a deep wallow in anger through his nasal snarl that I can relate to that pervades the track through the wall of sound guitar noise.

While "Addicted" came only one notch from reaching the top ten on Billboard's Mainstream Top-40 radio airplay chart at #11, the single stopped a few notches below the top 40 on their complete sales & airplay Hot 100 in August of 2003. The single was big in Australia, reaching #10, while it was a minor hit in the United Kingdom at #63. 

The group didn't have much time to be depressed, as their next single from the album would be their biggest.

(7/10)

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Here's Simple Plan performing on the Craig Kilborn Show...

and lastly, live in concert...