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“If It Makes You Happy” by Sheryl Crow

From the album Sheryl Crow (1996)

“If It Makes You Happy” by Sheryl Crow appears on 25 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1996 and 2025. It was first released in 1996 on the album Sheryl Crow. Its best result is #40 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #83 alternative song of 1996 and #2,568 alternative song of all time.

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Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy (Official Music Video)

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Sheryl Crow opened the campaign for her self-titled 1996 album with "If It Makes You Happy", a song she wrote with Jeff Trott, who also plays guitar on it, and produced herself. It's a scruffy, bruised rocker: Trott's guitar grinding, Dan Rothchild's bass and Michael Urbano's drums rolling in low and loose, Crow adding keyboards and singing like she's worn out and defiant at the same time.

Tchad Blake mixed it and was among those who recorded it. It went to number one in Canada, 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 9 in the UK, and won Crow the Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1997. Keir McFarlane directed its videos, and Q later ranked it 663rd on its list of the 1001 best songs ever.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1996 90 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996 107
1996 59 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1996 101
1996 40 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996 99
1996 106 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 1996 107
1996 48 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996 96

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 453 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 653 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 463 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1552 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1552 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1552 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1548 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 1552 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1552 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1550 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1751 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1740 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1768 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1811 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1886 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1961 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2022 106 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900
2023 154 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893
2024 634 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years 1049
2025 50 WFPK WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s 500

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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