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“Stay (Wasting Time)” by Dave Matthews Band
From the album Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
“Stay (Wasting Time)” by Dave Matthews Band appears on 12 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1998 and 2016. It was first released in 1998 on the album Before These Crowded Streets. Its best result is #34 on the DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #59 alternative song of 1998, #4,497 alternative song of all time and #411 of the '90s.
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"Stay (Wasting Time)" was the second single Dave Matthews Band pulled from Before These Crowded Streets, their third studio album, and RCA sent it out in 1998, between "Don't Drink the Water" and "Crush". Dave Matthews wrote it with Stefan Lessard and LeRoi Moore, Steve Lillywhite mixed it, and Tawatha Agee, Cindy Mizell and Brenda White King sing backup.
Adult alternative radio couldn't get enough of it: the song spent seven weeks on top of Billboard's Triple-A chart and got as high as number eight on Modern Rock Tracks. Years later, in 2005, the Virginia Tourism Corporation gave it a second life in a television commercial.
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 | 58 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 39 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 38 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 34 | DC101 Washington, D.C. | DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 40 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 | 103 |
| 1998 | 46 | 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 | 280 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 504 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 2001 | 490 | WBRU | WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) | 500 |
| 2005 | 727 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2009 | 667 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2016 | 218 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
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