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“We're In This Together” by Nine Inch Nails

From the album The Fragile (1999)

“We're In This Together” by Nine Inch Nails appears on 18 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 1999 and 2007. It was first released in 1999 on the album The Fragile. Its best result is #17 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #29 alternative song of 1999, #4,960 alternative song of all time and #218 of the '90s.

18countdowns

14stations

#17best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1999–2007years charted

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"We're in This Together" was a 1999 single from Nine Inch Nails' sprawling The Fragile, issued as a three-disc set and counted as the band's 15th official release. According to collaborator Keith Hillebrandt, it sprouted from a bit Trent Reznor played at the tail end of another track, which he then built into a song of its own.

What he built runs past seven minutes: a lumbering hip-hop drag of a beat, walls of distorted guitar and a creepy insect chirp in the background, with Reznor for once sounding something close to hopeful. The lyrics echo David Bowie's "'Heroes'", two people standing together against some huge, crushing force. Reznor produced it with Alan Moulder, who also engineered and mixed, and Jerome Dillon plays the drums.

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
1999	57	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999	107
1999	66	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 1999	91
1999	44	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999	106
1999	79	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999	101
1999	50	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999	100
1999	29	K-Rock New York, NY	K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999	92
1999	17	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999	99
1999	28	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 1999	107
1999	49	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 1999	89
1999	54	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999	103
1999	17	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 1999	101
1999	83	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999	104
2000	48	K-Rock New York, NY	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2000	93
2000	66	103.3 The Edge Buffalo, NY	103.3 The Edge Top 103 of 2000	103

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	303	WHFS	WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)	500
1999	1003	Q101	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1017
1999	389	CFNY 102.1 The Edge	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999)	1002
2007	314	KROQ	KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007)	500

Also listed as: We're in This Together; We're in this Together; We're In this Together.

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