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“Whatever” by Godsmack

From the album Godsmack (1998)

“Whatever” by Godsmack appears on 35 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 1999 and 2026. It was first released in 1998 on the album Godsmack. Its best result is #12 on the K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #30 alternative song of 1999, #1,228 alternative song of all time and #247 of the '90s.

35countdowns
18stations
#12best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1999–2026years charted

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"Whatever" came off Godsmack's self-titled debut in 1998, and it's the sound of a band with no time for anybody's feelings: a thick, churning riff, a stomping beat and Sully Erna snarling the one-word brush-off of the title. Erna wrote it with guitarist Tony Rombola, who has said it was Erna's answer to his girlfriend back when the band rehearsed five nights a week, played weekends and still held down day jobs, leaving about 10 minutes a day for anyone else.

Erna produced it himself, with Mudrock co-producing, engineering and recording. It first turned up on a promotional bonus CD packed with some copies of All Wound Up, and once radio got hold of it, it spent 33 weeks in the Active Rock top 10, a record. In 2019 Spin put it at number 55 on its list of the 69 best alternative rock songs of 1999.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 53 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 107
1999 19 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 106
1999 26 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999 101
1999 35 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 100
1999 12 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999 92
1999 32 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 99
1999 45 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999 89
1999 23 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1999 101
1999 34 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999 104
2000 79 103.3 The Edge Buffalo, NY 103.3 The Edge Top 103 of 2000 103
2001 37 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Top 99 Songs of 2001 99

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 458 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 1005 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 564 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
2000 31 103.3 The Edge 103.3 The Edge Top 103 New Rock Songs of the Millennium 103
2001 94 WBRU WBRU Modern Rock Top 500 (2001) 500
2002 234 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2004 125 Q101 Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2005 172 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 473 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2014 66 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) 500
2015 51 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) 500
2019 163 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2019 429 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2019) 499
2020 193 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) 420
2021 199 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) 420
2021 393 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2021) 500
2022 431 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2022 211 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) 420
2023 177 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500
2023 209 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420
2023 62 94.1 WJJO WJJO Frequent Rocker Top 100 Songs of 2023 100
2024 281 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2024) 400
2025 118 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2025) 400
2026 485 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500

Also listed as: Whateveer.

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