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“Who You Are” by Pearl Jam

From the album No Code (1996)

“Who You Are” by Pearl Jam appears on 23 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1996 and 2014. It was first released in 1996 on the album No Code. Its best result is #50 on The End Top 107 Songs of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #84 alternative song of 1996 and #1,392 alternative song of all time.

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Pearl Jam - Who You Are (Official Audio)

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"Who You Are" led Pearl Jam's fourth studio album, No Code, out the door in the summer of 1996, and it's the moment the band's roar turned into a hum. Jack Irons and Stone Gossard wrote the music, and Irons' loping, hypnotic drum pattern carries the song, with Eddie Vedder's lyric floating on top, a little mystical and a lot calmer than the band's earlier hits.

Vedder also plays guitar and harmonica alongside Gossard, Mike McCready and Jeff Ament, and Brendan O'Brien sits in on piano besides co-producing with the band and mixing with Nick DiDia. The gamble paid: it topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and reached number two in Finland, the band's best showing there. A slightly rewritten lyric turned up on the 2004 greatest hits set Rearviewmirror.

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

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1996 79 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996 107
1996 85 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1996 101
1996 50 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 1996 107
1996 68 WBCN Boston, MA WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996 104
1996 61 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996 96

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 611 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 804 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1631 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1631 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1631 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1623 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 559 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2003 1614 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1614 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1613 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 53 107.7 The End The End Top 77 Pearl Jam Songs of All-Time (September 2005) 77
2007 588 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 599 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 620 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 640 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 662 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 690 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 722 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Charting alongside it in 1996

Best songs of 1996 →
  1. 1Down311
  2. 2PepperButthole Surfers
  3. 3Where It's AtBeck
  4. 4SpiderwebsNo Doubt
  5. 5What I GotSublime
  6. 6MachineheadBush

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