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“The Ground Beneath Her Feet” by U2
From the album All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)
“The Ground Beneath Her Feet” by U2 appears on 10 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2000 and 2005. It was first released in 2000 on the album All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Its best result is #46 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2000. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #147 alternative song of 2000 and #6,689 alternative song of all time.
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U2 wrote the music for "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" during the sessions for All That You Can't Leave Behind, but the words came from somewhere else entirely: Salman Rushdie gets the lyric credit, since they're taken from his 1999 book of the same name. The song landed in The Million Dollar Hotel, the 2000 film Bono produced, and on its soundtrack, with a different mix used in the film itself.
Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois produced, Lanois plays pedal steel, the Edge adds organ, Craig Armstrong brings in strings and Tim Palmer mixed it, and the result is a slow, wide-screen ballad with a literary soul. Sent out as a promotional single in 2000, it reached number two on Billboard's Adult Alternative chart and number one in Iceland.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 89 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2000 | 91 |
| 2000 | 46 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2000 | 101 |
| 2000 | 52 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000 | 99 |
| 2000 | 94 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1992 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 2001 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1997 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1903 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1903 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1896 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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