Song · Nine Inch Nails
“Wish” by Nine Inch Nails
From the EP Broken (1992)
“Wish” by Nine Inch Nails appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2005. It was first released in 1992 on the EP Broken. Its best result is #344 on The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,632 alternative song of all time.
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"Wish" came tearing out of Broken, the 1992 debut EP from Nine Inch Nails, and went out that year as a promotional single. Trent Reznor wrote it and sings it, and he produced it with Flood, while Martin Atkins handled the drums. It's a sheet-metal tantrum of a song, and it turned the industrial-rock scowl into hardware: "Wish" took the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 1993.
J. G. Thirlwell reworked it twice for Fixed, the companion disc to the EP, and its standing has only held up since. In 2020 Kerrang put it at the very top of its list of the greatest Nine Inch Nails songs, and Billboard ranked it fourth on its own.
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 | 344 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2004 | 451 | 107.7 The End | The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 386 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
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