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“Breakfast At Tiffany's” by Deep Blue Something
From the album 11th Song (1993)
“Breakfast At Tiffany's” by Deep Blue Something appears on 18 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1995 and 2024. It was first released in 1993 on the album 11th Song. Its best result is #6 on the Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #79 alternative song of 1995 and #2,819 alternative song of all time.
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"Breakfast at Tiffany's" first showed up on Deep Blue Something's 1993 album 11th Song, and the band thought enough of it to re-record it for their 1994 album Home. Todd Pipes wrote it and plays bass, Toby Pipes handles acoustic and electric guitars, both of them sing, and John Kirtland keeps time on drums and percussion. It's breezy, jangling alternative pop that sounds like a sunny afternoon.
Interscope sent it out as a single in 1995, and it became the band's only US hit, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and went all the way to number one in the UK. Follow-ups never came close, and the one-hit-wonder tag stuck. The title had one downside: radio stations kept booking them for breakfast shows, hauling them in to play at 6 a.m. after nights that ran till 3.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1995 | 50 |
| 1995 | 67 | Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT | WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
| 1995 | 99 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | The Buzz Top 103 Alternative Songs of '95 | 103 |
| 1995 | 75 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 95 Songs of 1995 | 95 |
| 1995 | 58 | WDRE Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA | WDRE Top 103.9 Songs of 1995 | 104 |
| 1996 | 6 | Virgin Radio United Kingdom | Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1996 | 10 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1411 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1411 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1413 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2001 | 386 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2002 | 1411 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1397 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2003 | 63 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003) | 100 |
| 2004 | 1397 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2004 | 403 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 1396 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2005 | 921 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2024 | 450 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
Also listed as: Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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