Song · Nine Inch Nails
“The Day The World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails
From the album The Fragile (1999)
“The Day The World Went Away” by Nine Inch Nails appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1999. It was first released in 1999 on the album The Fragile. Its best result is #844 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,735 alternative song of all time.
Nine Inch Nails led off The Fragile, their third studio album, with "The Day the World Went Away", released on Nothing Records on July 20, 1999, and it doesn't have a single drum on it. Trent Reznor wrote, sang and produced it, and it runs on repetition and hush, one melody line circling over a sludge of guitar that wobbles like a record spinning off-center. Rolling Stone heard a buoyant, spacey menace, massed guitars with a Black Sabbath heft hung in echo, discreet electronics and an off-kilter acoustic part that turns out to be a ukulele. The Buddha Debutante Choir and Kim Prevost add guest voices, and a quiet version swaps the guitars for piano.
It also carried the band into the Hot 100's Top 40 for the first time, and its peak of 17 makes it their highest-charting single to this day.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 844 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
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