Song · Alanis Morissette
“Thank U” by Alanis Morissette
From the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)
“Thank U” by Alanis Morissette appears on 8 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1998 and 2022. It was first released in 1998 on the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. Its best result is #50 on the WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #102 alternative song of 1998 and #4,818 alternative song of all time.
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Alanis Morissette came back from a trip to India and wrote "Thank U" with Glen Ballard, the same man who'd produced Jagged Little Pill, and it landed on her 1998 album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. It's the sound of someone exhaling: slow, glowing and almost prayerful, sung over a patient, rolling groove that never raises its voice.
Ballard and Morissette produced it together, with Chris Fogel recording and mixing. It gave her a fifth number-one single in Canada and her highest-charting single in the UK, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and came with a video that put her naked on city streets. On her 2005 hits collection The Collection it turned up spelled out in full as "Thank You".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 61 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 79 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 53 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 50 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
| 1998 | 88 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 579 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2001 | 383 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2022 | 878 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
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