Song · Tori Amos
“Jackie's Strength” by Tori Amos
From the album From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998)
“Jackie's Strength” by Tori Amos appears on 8 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1998 and 2005. It was first released in 1998 on the album From the Choirgirl Hotel. Its best result is #79 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #376 alternative song of 1998 and #5,531 alternative song of all time.
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"Jackie's Strength" followed "Spark" as the second single from From the Choirgirl Hotel, Tori Amos's fourth studio album, out on Atlantic in 1998. She wrote it alone and produced it herself, singing lead and backing vocals over her own piano, with Steve Caton on guitar, Matt Chamberlain on drums and Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass; Mark Hawley and Marcel van Limbeek recorded and mixed it. On its face it's a song about Jackie Onassis, with a fleeting glance at the Kennedy assassination, but Amos said it was also about her own misgivings about marriage, and she said it again to Rolling Stone's Steven Daly that June.
It stalled at 54 on the Hot 100, but the dance floor had other ideas: a remix single, out in February 1999, went all the way to number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 79 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1998 | 98 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1903 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1903 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1903 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1888 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1852 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1854 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1843 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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