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“Hit or Miss” by New Found Glory

From the album Nothing Gold Can Stay (1999)

“Hit or Miss” by New Found Glory appears on 14 radio countdowns from 14 stations in 2001. It was first released in 1999 on the album Nothing Gold Can Stay. Its best result is #24 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #44 alternative song of 2001 and #487 of the '00s.

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"Hit or Miss" first showed up on Nothing Gold Can Stay, New Found Glory's 1999 debut, a fast, bright blast of pop-punk credited to Jordan Pundik, Chad Gilbert, Steve Klein, Ian Grushka and Cyrus Bolooki. Pundik aimed it at a romance going nowhere, the kind where you sit staring at a phone that stays dead.

The band cut it again for their self-titled second album and sent it out as the lead single, though not on the first try: a session with Jerry Finn got shelved when they didn't like how it came out. Neal Avron got it right by talking them into paring back the drum fills until the whole thing rolled along loose and easy, just right for modern rock radio. That take ended up in American Pie 2 and The Benchwarmers, and Alternative Press later ranked it at 26 among the best singles of the 2000s.

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
2001	47	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001	107
2001	87	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2001	91
2001	35	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001	106
2001	74	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001	101
2001	44	K-Rock New York, NY	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001	93
2001	73	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001	100
2001	62	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 2001	107
2001	27	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001	99
2001	87	99X Atlanta, GA	99X Top 99 Songs of 2001	99
2001	35	WBCN Boston, MA	WBCN Top 41 Songs of 2001	40
2001	24	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2001	191
2001	66	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001	103
2001	26	97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL	97X Top 97 Songs of 2001	97
2001	58	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001	100

Also listed as: Hit Or Miss; Hit Or Miss (Waited Too Long).

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