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“The Space Between” by Dave Matthews Band

From the album Everyday (2001)

“The Space Between” by Dave Matthews Band appears on 28 radio countdowns from 20 stations between 2001 and 2025. It was first released in 2001 on the album Everyday. Its best result is #4 on the G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #31 alternative song of 2001, #5,669 alternative song of all time and #365 of the '00s.

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The Space Between

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"The Space Between" came off Everyday, the Dave Matthews Band's 2001 album, and hit as a single that April, the band's first top-40 hit at home, peaking at 22 on the Hot 100, and their only top-40 showing in the UK, where it reached 36. Matthews wrote it with Glen Ballard, who also produced, and the result trades the band's usual jam-session sprawl for a slow, sturdy ache with a chorus built to carry.

Ballard heard the words as an apology, the singer promising someone close that time apart will always end with them back together. Chris Lord-Alge mixed it and Karl Derfler recorded it. Dave Meyers filmed the video on Lake Pickett near Orlando, the band playing on a dock while computer-made factories and power plants loom behind them, and the camera wanders off to an elderly man out in a boat, a young mother wading with her infant, and a young couple lounging in the bed of a pickup.

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

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Indie & Adult Alternative

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2001 37 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001 107
2001 35 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2001 91
2001 49 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 101
2001 39 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001 100
2001 91 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001 93
2001 54 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 89
2001 12 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 101
2001 58 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001 99
2001 5 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Top 99 Songs of 2001 99
2001 15 93XRT Chicago, IL WXRT Listener Poll: Top 30 Songs of 2001 30
2001 34 WBCN Boston, MA WBCN Top 41 Songs of 2001 40
2001 18 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001 103
2001 4 WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001 106
2001 32 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 Songs of 2001 97
2001 36 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2001 1973 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1956 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 41 The Buzz The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) 144
2003 1888 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1888 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1878 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 814 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 637 WTMD WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time 897
2009 515 WYEP WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade 913
2013 648 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2024 721 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 511 WXPN WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) 885
2025 821 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909

Charting alongside it in 2001

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  2. 2SchismTool
  3. 3How You Remind MeNickelback
  4. 4Smooth CriminalAlien Ant Farm
  5. 5It's Been AwhileStaind
  6. 6Fat LipSum 41

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