Song · Incubus
“Dig” by Incubus
From the album Light Grenades (2006)
“Dig” by Incubus appears on 21 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 2006 and 2023. It was first released in 2006 on the album Light Grenades. Its best result is #3 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #16 alternative song of 2007, #2,767 alternative song of all time and #309 of the '00s.
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"Dig" followed "Anna Molly" off Incubus's sixth album, Light Grenades, in 2006, and it's the record's big exhale: a slow-rolling, open-hearted rocker with a warm, swaying chorus. All five of them, Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger, Ben Kenney, Chris Kilmore and José Pasillas, share the writing credit.
Boyd has said it's a love song of the platonic kind, written when things in his life looked bleak and his bandmates became a safety net, the friends who reminded him who he was and that he was more than his ego. Alternative stations across the US hammered it, pushing it to number four on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The band even let fans make the video, running a contest called "I Dig Incubus", and the song later landed in Lego Rock Band.
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
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 364 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) | 500 |
| 2009 | 109 | Live 105 | Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) | 500 |
| 2010 | 141 | 94.1 The Zone | 94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade | 210 |
| 2014 | 231 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) | 500 |
| 2015 | 259 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) | 500 |
| 2019 | 332 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2023 | 366 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
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