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№4 by Stone Temple Pilots
№4 is an album by Stone Temple Pilots, released in 1999. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 54 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sour Girl”, on 32 lists with a best position of #6.
No. 4, Stone Temple Pilots' fourth studio album, came out on Atlantic on October 26, 1999, and after the detours of Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop it's a hard rock homecoming. Brendan O'Brien produced it across a stack of studios, and the DeLeo brothers, Dean on guitar and Robert on bass, and drummer Eric Kretz lock back into the heavy stuff, with streaks of metal and psychedelia running through the grind.
"Down" is the bruiser, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. "Sour Girl" is the curveball, a woozy, bittersweet pop song that became one of their biggest hits and their only entry on the Hot 100. The band had little chance to promote it, thanks to Scott Weiland's one-year jail sentence, which landed just before it came out, but it went platinum all the same.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from №4 on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sour Girl | 32 | #6 | – | 1999–2023 | |
| 2 | Down | 20 | #31 | – | 1999–2023 | |
| 3 | No Way Out | 2 | #68 | – | 2000 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.