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“My Name Is Human” by Highly Suspect
From the album The Boy Who Died Wolf (2016)
“My Name Is Human” by Highly Suspect appears on 12 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2016 and 2021. It was first released in 2016 on the album The Boy Who Died Wolf. Its best result is #1 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #93 alternative song of 2016.
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"My Name Is Human" was the lead single from Highly Suspect's second album, The Boy Who Died Wolf, released in 2016 on 300 Entertainment, and it put the band on top of rock radio. It went all the way to number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and parked there for eight weeks, their first chart-topper, and it went higher than anything they had done on the Alternative Songs, Hot Rock Songs and Rock Airplay charts, reaching 20, 12 and 7.
Johnny Stevens has said that people take the song to be about being human, when his own view is that some of us are not entirely human at all, still carrying the name. The song earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, and the video premiered through Vanity Fair on February 23, 2017.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 66 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2016 | 99 |
| 2016 | 1 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2016 | 30 |
| 2016 | 34 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2016 | 88 |
| 2016 | 88 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2016 | 103 |
| 2016 | 83 | 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS | 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2016 | 96 |
| 2017 | 38 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
| 2017 | 2 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 14 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
| 2019 | 19 | 101 WRIF | WRIF Top 20 Songs of the Last 20 Years (2000-2019) | 21 |
| 2020 | 86 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade | 99 |
| 2021 | 20 | KISW | KISW 25 Greatest Rock Songs from the '10s | 25 |
Also listed as: My Name is Human; My Names Is Human.
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