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“They Stood Up for Love” by Live
From the album The Distance to Here (1999)
“They Stood Up for Love” by Live appears on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2000 and 2002. It was first released in 1999 on the album The Distance to Here. Its best result is #29 on the Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2000). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #449 alternative song of 2000 and #3,794 alternative song of all time.
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Live squeezed one more single out of The Distance to Here, their 1999 album, with "They Stood Up for Love", which went to American radio in 2000 as the record's third and last single. Ed Kowalczyk wrote the words, and the music came from Kowalczyk, Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Taylor; Jerry Harrison produced with the band and Tom Lord-Alge mixed, giving it a big, earnest sweep.
It got to number 24 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart and 31 on Modern Rock Tracks, but its real triumph came overseas. An acoustic take, cut at Jet Studios in Brussels in April 2000 for the European singles, spent two weeks at number one in Flanders and ended up as the region's fourth-best-selling single of the year, and it also reached 19 in the Netherlands.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 96 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 29 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2000) | 100 |
| 2001 | 53 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2001) | 100 |
| 2002 | 96 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (2002) | 100 |
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