Song · Dido
“Here With Me” by Dido
From the album No Angel (1999)
“Here With Me” by Dido appears on 9 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1999 and 2023. It was first released in 1999 on the album No Angel. Its best result is #16 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #104 alternative song of 1999 and #3,604 alternative song of all time.
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"Here With Me" was the first single Dido pulled from No Angel, her 1999 debut, reaching American shops that May while Britain had to wait until February 2001, when it became her first single at home. She wrote it with Pascal Gabriel and Paul Statham, about the boyfriend she had at the time, Bob Page, and produced it with Rick Nowels.
It's trip-hop turned down to a murmur: a slow, loping beat, keyboards from Nowels, Statham and Peter-John Vettese hanging in the air like fog, John Themis adding guitar and percussion, and Dido's voice close and unhurried in the middle, pleading without ever raising itself. American television grabbed it early as the theme for the sci-fi series Roswell, and when the UK release finally came it went to number four, her second top-five hit in a row after her turn on Eminem's "Stan".
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 92 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 40 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1999 | 91 |
| 1999 | 94 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999 | 103 |
| 1999 | 16 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1999 | 101 |
| 2000 | 85 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2000 | 107 |
| 2001 | 38 | WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ | G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 55 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2004 | 236 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2023 | 614 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
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