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Nine Lives by Aerosmith
Nine Lives is an album by Aerosmith, released in 1997. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 18 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Pink”, on 15 lists with a best position of #3.
Nine Lives, Aerosmith's twelfth studio album, found the Boston warhorses back on Columbia for the first time since Rock in a Hard Place in 1982, with Kevin Shirley sharing the production credit with the band. After the multi-platinum runs of Pump and Get a Grip, the classic five of Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer had nothing left to prove and played like it: blues-soaked hard rock with the pop gloss turned up, Tyler yowling and Perry slashing away.
"Pink" is the cheekiest thing here, a strutting rocker that won them a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, while "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" and "Hole in My Soul" split the difference between swagger and heartache. America took it all the way to the top of the Billboard 200, and more than two million copies found homes there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Nine Lives on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pink | 15 | #3 | – | 1997–2022 | |
| 2 | Falling in Love (is Hard on the Knees) | 1 | #25 | – | 1997 | |
| 3 | Hole in My Soul | 2 | #49 | – | 1997 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.