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“The Dolphin's Cry” by Live

From the album The Distance to Here (1999)

“The Dolphin's Cry” by Live appears on 30 radio countdowns from 19 stations between 1999 and 2024. It was first released in 1999 on the album The Distance to Here. Its best result is #12 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #19 alternative song of 1999, #3,176 alternative song of all time and #165 of the '90s.

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19stations
#12best position
0#1 finishes
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1999–2024years charted

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"The Dolphin's Cry" led the way for The Distance to Here, Live's fifth album, in 1999, and it's Ed Kowalczyk doing what he does best: a slow-building, big-hearted rock hymn that starts in a hush and ends in a full-throated surge. He wrote it on his own, the band produced it with Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads, and Tom Lord-Alge mixed it for Radioactive.

Rock radio grabbed it: number two on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, number three on Modern Rock Tracks and top of Canada's RPM rock report. It went all the way to number one in Iceland, topped the UK Rock Chart and went gold in Australia.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

Hard Rock & Metal

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 25 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 107
1999 42 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1999 91
1999 23 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 106
1999 35 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999 101
1999 12 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 100
1999 47 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999 92
1999 49 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 99
1999 20 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 1999 107
1999 31 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 1999 89
1999 98 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1999 101
1999 15 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999 103
1999 30 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999 104
2000 39 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000 105
2000 37 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2000 93
2000 84 WBCN Boston, MA WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K 102
2000 49 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2000 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 220 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 379 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 666 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 719 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 977 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
1999 961 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
1999 53 Studio Brussel Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1999) 150
2000 492 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) 500
2000 93 Studio Brussel Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2000) 100
2001 487 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2001) 498
2001 98 Studio Brussel Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2001) 100
2005 561 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 358 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2024 1014 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years 1049

Also listed as: Dolphin's Cry; The Dolphins Cry; Dolphins Cry.

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