Cover of Riot Act by Pearl Jam
Cover: Riot Act

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“I Am Mine” by Pearl Jam

From the album Riot Act (2002)

“I Am Mine” by Pearl Jam appears on 27 radio countdowns from 21 stations between 2002 and 2013. It was first released in 2002 on the album Riot Act. Its best result is #7 on The End Top 107 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 2002, #6,695 alternative song of all time and #327 of the '00s.

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"I Am Mine" led the way for Riot Act, Pearl Jam's seventh album, arriving as its first single on October 8, 2002, and climbing to number six on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. Eddie Vedder wrote it alone in a hotel room near Virginia Beach, on the eve of the band's first show after the Roskilde tragedy of 2000, as a way of convincing himself things would be all right.

That shaken calm is all over it. It's a sturdy folk-rock hymn about the inner self nobody else can own, with Vedder, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready on guitars, Jeff Ament on bass and Matt Cameron keeping a steady, unshowy pulse. Adam Kasper produced with the band and Brendan O'Brien mixed. Cameron reckoned it had everything the band was known for, which made it the natural starting point for the record. It later landed on rearviewmirror.

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

RockLists rankings

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2002 95 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2002 107
2002 45 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2002 91
2002 87 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002 106
2002 54 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 101
2002 63 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2002 100
2002 64 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2002 92
2002 62 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2002 100
2002 7 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 2002 107
2002 61 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2002 89
2002 14 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 101
2002 53 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2002 100
2002 27 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002 99
2002 59 WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2002 106
2002 69 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002 105
2002 48 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2002 224
2002 21 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002 103
2002 76 Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002 104
2002 28 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 2002 100
2002 69 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002 99
2003 14 The Bear Ottawa, ON The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2003 107

All-time and decade countdowns

Charting alongside it in 2002

Best songs of 2002 →
  1. 1By the WayRed Hot Chili Peppers
  2. 2AerialsSystem of a Down
  3. 3ToxicitySystem of a Down
  4. 4You Know You're RightNirvana
  5. 5All My LifeFoo Fighters
  6. 6SweetnessJimmy Eat World

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