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“Open Letter To NYC” by Beastie Boys
“Open Letter To NYC” by Beastie Boys appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2004. Its best result is #39 on the K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #394 alternative song of 2004.
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The Beastie Boys wrote "An Open Letter to NYC" as a love note to their hometown, and Capitol sent it out in November 2004, the fourth and last single pulled from To the 5 Boroughs, their sixth studio album. It's part hometown toast, part civics lesson: the song nods to the 9/11 attacks, but it also points at deeper flaws in the system, the kind people have to own up to and face together as a community or else all suffer for.
They played it live at the 2004 MTV Europe Music Awards in Rome on November 18, and the single went straight in at number 38 in the UK, which was as high as it got. HBO used it to open an episode of Taxicab Confessions, and it turned up in the video game NBA Street V3.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 39 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004 | 93 |
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