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“I'm Just a Kid” by Simple Plan
From the album No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls (2002)
“I'm Just a Kid” by Simple Plan appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2002. It was first released in 2002 on the album No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls. Its best result is #17 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #127 alternative song of 2002.
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"I'm Just a Kid" was the first single Simple Plan ever put out, pulled from their 2002 debut album No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls on Atlantic, and it wasn't the band's own pick: they wanted "Addicted" to lead, but a movie came calling, and this one landed on the soundtrack to The New Guy instead. Singer Pierre Bouvier and drummer Chuck Comeau wrote it about how high school felt, when every bad day seemed like the end of the world, and producer Arnold Lanni, who shares the writing credit with them, Sebastien Lefebvre and Jeff Stinco, serves it up as pop-punk sulk with a grin.
The Canadian band's ode to teenage misery got a second life in April 2020, when TikTok turned it into the soundtrack for families re-creating old childhood photos, and on May 26, 2020 the RIAA certified it platinum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 40 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2002 | 99 |
| 2002 | 82 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2002 | 224 |
| 2002 | 17 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002 | 40 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 93 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) | 144 |
Also listed as: I'm Just A Kid.
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