Song · Semisonic
“If I Run” by Semisonic
From the album Great Divide (1996)
“If I Run” by Semisonic appears on 5 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2023. It was first released in 1996 on the album Great Divide. Its best result is #810 on The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,662 alternative song of all time.
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"If I Run" comes from Great Divide, the debut album Semisonic released on MCA on April 9, 1996, and Dan Wilson wrote it with Jacob Slichter. Paul Fox produced, Ed Thacker recorded and mixed it, and Jim Labinski, Patrick Thrasher and Matt Westfield assisted on the engineering.
The album nearly came out somewhere else. Semisonic had signed with Elektra to make it, but in the middle of the recording the label's president, Bob Krasnow, quit, and in the shuffle that followed Elektra dropped the band. MCA picked them up, and they finished the record there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1633 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1853 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1860 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1846 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2023 | 810 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
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