“How You Remind Me” by Nickelback

"How You Remind Me" was the lead single from Nickelback's third album, Silver Side Up, in 2001, and it's the song the Canadian band is best known for. Chad Kroeger wrote the words and sings lead, and the music is credited to the whole band: Kroeger and Ryan Peake on guitars, Mike Kroeger on bass and Ryan Vikedal on drums. The four of them produced it with Rick Parashar, and Randy Staub mixed it for Roadrunner.

It's post-grunge built to fill arenas: a brooding, quiet verse, Kroeger's gravel-throated growl, then a chorus that crashes down like a wave of distorted guitars. There's nothing subtle about it, and that's the point. It's a heavy, bruised power ballad engineered to hit hard on car stereos everywhere.

It climbed to number one on the Hot 100 and by 2010 no song of the decade had been played more on American radio. Billboard ranked it fourth on its Hot 100 songs of the decade and named it the top rock song of the 2000s, and it earned a Kerrang! Award nomination for Best Single.

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