Song · Five for Fighting
“100 Years” by Five for Fighting
From the album This Is Love... Too (2004)
“100 Years” by Five for Fighting appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2009 and 2024. It was first released in 2004 on the album This Is Love... Too. Its best result is #289 on the WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,758 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"100 Years" arrived in late 2003 as the lead single from the third studio album by Five for Fighting, and it's a piano ballad that tries to fit a whole life into a few minutes. Each stretch of the song checks in at a different age along a century-long lifespan, which makes it a greeting card with genuine nerve.
This is soft rock with no apologies, cut for Columbia, and it found its audience fast: the song topped Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, crept into the Hot 100, and went platinum in 2007. Critics were mostly kind.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 455 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2013 | 289 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2020 | 913 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2024 | 336 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
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