Song · Dido
“Thank You” by Dido
From the album No Angel (1999)
“Thank You” by Dido appears on 11 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2000 and 2025. It was first released in 2001 on the album No Angel. Its best result is #6 on the G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #124 alternative song of 2001 and #3,977 alternative song of all time.
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Dido's "Thank You" took the long way round. She wrote it with Paul Herman, and it first surfaced in 1998 on the soundtrack to Sliding Doors before landing on No Angel, her 1999 debut album. Then a sample changed everything: Eminem built "Stan" on it, and the attention hauled both the song and the album into the mainstream.
By April 2001 it had climbed to number three on the Billboard Hot 100, her first and only US top-10 single. It also reached number three in the UK, topped Canada's airplay charts and went to number one in Croatia and Portugal, and at least 15 countries put it inside their top 40. Not bad for a song that started life on a movie soundtrack.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 12 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 | 100 |
| 2000 | 35 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2000 | 102 |
| 2001 | 64 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001 | 103 |
| 2001 | 6 | WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ | G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 35 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 180 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2001 | 1792 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2004 | 272 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2021 | 904 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2024 | 518 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 207 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
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