Song · Gavin DeGraw
“I Don't Want To Be” by Gavin DeGraw
From the album Chariot (2003)
“I Don't Want To Be” by Gavin DeGraw appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2005. It was first released in 2003 on the album Chariot. Its best result is #381 on the ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #819 alternative song of 2005.
Gavin DeGraw wrote "I Don't Want to Be" by himself for Chariot, his 2003 debut album on J Records, with Mark Endert producing, and it's a pop-rock stand for being yourself. Television made it: the chorus became the opening theme of the teen drama One Tree Hill, and that exposure carried it to radio as the album's second single in 2004 and up to 10 in the US in January 2005, with top-20 showings in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland and Sweden.
The video spells out the lyric's point, following a girl who snoops on her high school classmates while they stand frozen in time, until she settles on being herself. The show kept the song alive: when One Tree Hill wrapped its ninth and final season in 2012, with DeGraw in the finale, it climbed to 27 in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 381 | ModernRock.com Online | ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 | 400 |
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