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“The Young and the Hopeless” by Good Charlotte
From the album The Young and the Hopeless (2002)
“The Young and the Hopeless” by Good Charlotte appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2003. It was first released in 2002 on the album The Young and the Hopeless. Its best result is #59 on the Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #418 alternative song of 2003.
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The title track of Good Charlotte's second album, "The Young and the Hopeless" comes from the record the band made with producer Eric Valentine at Barefoot Studios in Los Angeles between February and May 2002, and it arrived on Epic and Daylight that October. Brothers Benji and Joel Madden wrote it, as they wrote almost everything on the album, and Valentine produced and mixed it and engineered alongside Ken Allardyce.
The album blended pop-punk and emo in a way that called Blink-182, Green Day and MxPx to mind. Critics sneered at the lyrics as clichéd, and fans bought it by the truckload anyway, pushing it to triple platinum. The song itself finally went out as a single in January 2004, paired with "Hold On".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 90 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2003 | 92 |
| 2003 | 59 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003 | 100 |
| 2003 | 93 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003 | 99 |
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