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“With Arms Wide Open” by Creed

From the album Human Clay (1999)

“With Arms Wide Open” by Creed appears on 22 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 2000 and 2026. It was first released in 1999 on the album Human Clay. Its best result is #5 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #13 alternative song of 2000, #3,695 alternative song of all time and #231 of the '00s.

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Creed - With Arms Wide Open (Official HD Music Video)

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"With Arms Wide Open" is the power ballad from Creed's second album, Human Clay, released as its third single in April 2000, and it's Scott Stapp at his most earnest. He started the lyric in early 1998, on the road behind the debut My Own Prison, after learning that his then-wife Hillaree Burns was expecting his first child, Jagger. The song itself came together in about 15 minutes at a soundcheck, when Stapp heard Mark Tremonti noodling a melody and ran in telling him not to stop.

John Kurzweg produced, engineered and mixed it, with Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips swelling beneath Tremonti's chiming chords. It went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 2000, the band's only chart-topper, and won Stapp and Tremonti the Grammy for Best Rock Song in 2001.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Classic Rock

#2,398 of all time

Hard Rock & Metal

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2000	11	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2000	107
2000	29	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000	105
2000	5	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2000	101
2000	9	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2000	100
2000	22	K-Rock New York, NY	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2000	93
2000	25	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2000	100
2000	10	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 2000	107
2000	25	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2000	89
2000	77	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000	99
2000	17	The Edge Phoenix, AZ	KEDJ Millennium Meltdown Countdown 2001	50
2000	20	WBCN Boston, MA	WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K	102
2000	6	103.3 The Edge Buffalo, NY	103.3 The Edge Top 103 of 2000	103
2000	5	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2000	102
2000	9	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2000	100
2001	50	WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001	106

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2001	215	WBRU	WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001)	500
2002	508	KISW	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)	999
2005	510	99X	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)	1000
2010	38	WJRR	WJRR Top 101 Songs of the Decade	101
2010	345	97.9 The Loop	The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010)	500
2020	361	DC101	The DC101 Top 500	500
2026	265	KSHE 95	KSHE 95 U-Man 500 (2026)	499

Also listed as: With Arms With Open.

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