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“Wrong Number” by The Cure

Released 1997

“Wrong Number” by The Cure appears on 23 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 1997 and 2005. It was first released in 1997. Its best result is #20 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #30 alternative song of 1997, #3,711 alternative song of all time and #248 of the '90s.

23countdowns
14stations
#20best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1997–2005years charted

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Wrong Number (Single Mix)

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The Cure put "Wrong Number" out as a single on 17 November 1997, pulling it from Galore, the compilation album they released that year on Fiction. It's a restless, jittery thing by Cure standards, all nervous beats and guitars that buzz and grind, and the credits explain part of it: this was the first Cure release to feature Reeves Gabrels on guitar, before he was a full member. Robert Smith wrote it alone and covers nearly everything else himself, singing lead and playing guitar, bass and keyboards, with Jason Cooper on drums. Smith produced it with Mark Plati and Mark Saunders, and Plati mixed.

Tim Pope's video is a proper fever dream: the band playing amid clouds of powder, Smith getting married, faces floating through space and Smith hemmed in by a snake.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1997 32 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1997 107
1997 48 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1997 91
1997 20 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 105
1997 52 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1997 101
1997 29 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1997 100
1997 45 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 1997 107
1997 47 X103.9 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA X103.9 Top 103.9 Songs of 1997 104
1997 54 KNRK Portland, OR KNRK Top 94 Songs of 1997 94
1997 55 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105.7 of 1997 106
1997 80 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 1997 103
1997 45 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 100
1997 79 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 97 Songs of 1997 97
1998 101 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 102

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1999 452 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 937 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1824 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 1826 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1830 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1817 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 1796 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 959 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 1796 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1794 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994

Charting alongside it in 1997

Best songs of 1997 →
  1. 1Song 2Blur
  2. 2Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth
  3. 3TubthumpingChumbawamba
  4. 4FlySugar Ray
  5. 5The Impression That I GetThe Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  6. 6Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind

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