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“Singing In My Sleep” by Semisonic

From the album Feeling Strangely Fine (1998)

“Singing In My Sleep” by Semisonic appears on 12 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 1998 and 2025. It was first released in 1998 on the album Feeling Strangely Fine. Its best result is #59 on the DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #67 alternative song of 1998.

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"Singing in My Sleep" was the follow-up to "Closing Time" off Semisonic's second album, Feeling Strangely Fine (1998), and it's a love letter to the mixtape. Dan Wilson got the idea from a tape someone sent him that he couldn't stop playing, and he built the words from what was in front of him: the Sony logo spinning in the middle of the cassette, a song title from the tracklist. Once he let himself use those details, he said, the lyrics came easily.

Wilson sings and plays guitar, with John Munson on bass and Jacob Slichter on drums and Wurlitzer, both adding harmonies. Nick Launay produced and recorded it and Bob Clearmountain mixed. It reached number 11 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, and in March 2000 it finally charted in the UK at number 39.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#387 of the '90s

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1998	94	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998	107
1998	73	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998	106
1998	82	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998	101
1998	61	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998	102
1998	66	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 1998	107
1998	64	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998	100
1998	59	DC101 Washington, D.C.	DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998	101
1998	60	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998	103
1998	60	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998	102

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2021	615	90.9 The Bridge	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s	908
2023	186	The Current	The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s	893
2025	391	WFPK	WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s	500

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