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Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
Year Zero is an album by Nine Inch Nails, released in 2007. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 32 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Survivalism”, on 18 lists with a best position of #23.
Year Zero, the fifth Nine Inch Nails album, hit on Interscope on April 17, 2007, and Trent Reznor used it to point the camera outward. Instead of the inward-looking songs of earlier records, it's a concept album set in a dystopian 2022, a grim sci-fi broadside at the policies of the US government of the day. Reznor dreamed it up on the road behind With Teeth, cut it in late 2006 and produced it with Atticus Ross, the first NIN studio set since The Downward Spiral without Alan Moulder co-producing.
The sound is dense and corroded, beats glitching and sputtering, noise curling around the edges of the hooks, and "Survivalism" and "Capital G" were the singles. The story spilled off the disc into an alternate reality game of websites, phone messages and murals. It was also Reznor's last album for Interscope before he walked away from the label over a fight about overseas pricing.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Year Zero on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Survivalism | 18 | #23 | – | 2007–2014 | |
| 2 | Capital G | 12 | #23 | – | 2007 | |
| 3 | My Violent Heart | 1 | #41 | – | 2007 | |
| 4 | The Beginning of the End | 1 | #101 | – | 2007 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.