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“Love Hurts” by Incubus
From the album Light Grenades (2006)
“Love Hurts” by Incubus appears on 25 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 2008 and 2022. It was first released in 2006 on the album Light Grenades. Its best result is #1 on the Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #30 alternative song of 2008, #5,707 alternative song of all time and #161 of the '00s.
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"Love Hurts" came off Light Grenades, the sixth Incubus album, which Epic put out in 2006, and it had to wait its turn. Europe got it as the third single; America got it fourth, nearly two years after the album landed. Then it turned into a surprise, climbing all the way to number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, the band's fourth song to get there.
Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger, Ben Kenney, Chris Kilmore and José Pasillas share the writing credit, and this is the band at its most earnest. Boyd himself admitted the idea flirts with cliché: love in its purest form, freed from the expectations and misreadings people pile onto it and lifted above everyday concerns. No official video was ever made; fans got a live clip with the studio track laid over it instead.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 357 | Live 105 | Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) | 500 |
| 2022 | 446 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
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