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“Dare You To Move” by Switchfoot

From the album The Beautiful Letdown (2003)

“Dare You To Move” by Switchfoot appears on 15 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 2004 and 2022. It was first released in 2003 on the album The Beautiful Letdown. Its best result is #13 on the G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #61 alternative song of 2004, #7,571 alternative song of all time and #472 of the '00s.

15countdowns

14stations

#13best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

2004–2022years charted

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"Dare You To Move" is a song Switchfoot loved too much to leave alone. Jon Foreman wrote it, and it first appeared as "I Dare You to Move" on the band's 2000 album Learning to Breathe, and they rebuilt it for their fourth album, The Beautiful Letdown, in 2003, giving it a slow-building surge of guitars and a chorus pitched at the rafters.

Charlie Peacock, the man who found the band and signed them to their first deal, co-produced it with John Fields, and Tom Lord-Alge gave it its radio-ready mix. It worked: the new version climbed to 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, outrunning "Meant to Live" to become their biggest single, went gold, and Rhapsody later ranked it 73rd among the top tracks of the decade.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Hard Rock & Metal

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2004	67	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004	107
2004	29	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2004	91
2004	71	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004	100
2004	19	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2004	89
2004	91	Y100 Philadelphia, PA	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004	99
2004	85	The Bear Ottawa, ON	The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2004	107
2004	48	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004	99
2004	15	Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA	Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2004	105
2004	74	99X Atlanta, GA	99X Essential 99 of 2004	99
2004	86	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004	88
2004	13	WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2004	106
2004	32	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2004	50
2004	43	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004	100
2004	26	WIRS 107.9 College station	WIRS Top 107 Songs of 2004	107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2022	489	X96	X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time	500

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