Song · Aerosmith
“Pink” by Aerosmith
From the album Nine Lives (1997)
“Pink” by Aerosmith appears on 15 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1997 and 2022. It was first released in 1997 on the album Nine Lives. Its best result is #3 on the KEGL The Eagle's Top 97 Songs of 1997.
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Steven Tyler wrote "Pink" with the hired pens Richie Supa and Glen Ballard, and Aerosmith made it the third single pulled from Nine Lives, their 12th studio album, in 1997. Kevin Shirley produced, recorded and mixed it, and Tyler blows harmonica on top of his own lead and backing vocals while Joe Perry and Brad Whitford work the guitars over Tom Hamilton's bass and Joey Kramer's drums.
It handed the band an eighth trip to number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and got to 27 on the Hot 100, and a 1999 reissue took it to 13 in the UK. Doug Nichol's video went wild with the computer morphing tricks, pasting faces onto other bodies as a parade of oddballs marches toward the lens: Perry becomes a centaur, Whitford shrinks into a little boy and Tyler ends up a skeleton.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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Alternative & Modern Rock
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 97.1 The Eagle Dallas-Fort Worth, TX | KEGL The Eagle's Top 97 Songs of 1997 | 97 |
| 1997 | 17 | KISW Seattle-Tacoma, WA | KISW Top 25 Songs from 1997 | 25 |
| 1997 | 42 | WRCX Rock 103.5 Chicago, IL | WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997 | 103 |
| 1998 | 52 | DC101 Washington, D.C. | DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 712 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 716 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 800 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2010 | 457 | 97.9 The Loop | The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) | 500 |
| 2011 | 745 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2012 | 769 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 481 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 729 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 481 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2016 | 762 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 | 1007 |
| 2022 | 68 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2022) | 500 |
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