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The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile is an album by Nine Inch Nails, released in 1999. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 39 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “We're In This Together”, on 18 lists with a best position of #17.
The Fragile, Nine Inch Nails' third studio album, was released as a triple album on Nothing and Interscope on September 21, 1999, five years after The Downward Spiral. Trent Reznor produced it with his longtime ally Alan Moulder, working in New Orleans from 1997 into 1999, and it sounds like it: a huge, obsessive, detail-crammed record.
The bleak themes of The Downward Spiral still hang over it, with depression and drug abuse circling the lyrics, but the palette has drifted toward ambient and electronic textures, with long instrumental passages and whole tracks without a word sung. "The Day the World Went Away", "We're in This Together" and "Into the Void" were the singles, with "Starfuckers, Inc." as a promotional one. Some critics grumbled about the length, but it debuted at number one in the US, the band's first chart-topper, and many now rank it among Reznor's finest work.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Fragile on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We're In This Together | 18 | #17 | – | 1999–2007 | |
| 2 | Into the Void | 19 | #22 | – | 1999–2002 | |
| 3 | Starfuckers, Inc. | 1 | #64 | – | 2000 | |
| 4 | The Day The World Went Away | 1 | #844 | – | 1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.