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The Slip by Nine Inch Nails
The Slip is an album by Nine Inch Nails, released in 2008. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 16 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Discipline”, on 15 lists with a best position of #4.
The Slip, Nine Inch Nails' seventh album, dropped out of the sky on May 5, 2008, as a free download from the band's own website, just two months after Ghosts I-IV, with a CD on The Null Corporation following on July 22. Freed from Interscope, Trent Reznor gave it away under a Creative Commons license and let the numbers speak: nearly 2 million downloads, and still a climb to No. 13 on the Billboard 200 once the disc hit stores.
It started out as an EP and grew into a full album over just three weeks of recording, with Reznor producing alongside Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder. Reznor called it "garage electronics", and that's about right: lean, grimy, fast-moving industrial rock with the polish left off. "Discipline", the only single, went out to radio less than a day after Moulder mastered it, all taut, strutting funk-metal menace, while "1,000,000" hits like a jolt of static.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Slip on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Discipline | 15 | #4 | – | 2008–2011 | |
| 2 | 1,000,000 | 1 | #93 | – | 2008 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.