Album · Crazytown
The Gift of Game by Crazytown
The Gift of Game is an album by Crazytown, released in 1999. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 36 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Butterfly”, on 35 lists with a best position of #10.
The Gift of Game, Crazy Town's debut, came out on Columbia on November 9, 1999, from the Los Angeles rap-rock crew that Bret "Epic" Mazur and Shifty Shellshock had started in 1995. Josh Abraham produced it, and the lineup stacked Adam Goldstein's turntables, samples and keyboards alongside Anthony Valli's guitar and Doug Miller's bass, a hip-hop crew with a rock band bolted on.
It took its time. "Butterfly", a laid-back, sun-bleached single, climbed all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2001, well over a year after the album appeared, and pulled the record past 1.6 million copies in the US and 2.5 million worldwide. The follow-up, Darkhorse, couldn't repeat the trick.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Gift of Game on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Butterfly | 35 | #10 | – | 2000–2025 | |
| 2 | Revolving Door | 1 | #107 | – | 2001 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.