Song · U2
“You're the Best Thing About Me” by U2
Released 2017
“You're the Best Thing About Me” by U2 appears on 11 radio countdowns from 11 stations in 2017. It was first released in 2017. Its best result is #17 on the WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2017. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #43 alternative song of 2017.
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"You're the Best Thing About Me" was the first taste of Songs of Experience, U2's fourteenth studio album, landing as its lead single on September 6, 2017, and it finds the band trying on a Motown strut: rhythmic and sunlit. The glow has a dark root, though: Bono wrote it for his wife, Ali, after a nightmare in which he'd wrecked everything between them.
The producer list is crowded (Jacknife Lee, Steve Lillywhite, Ryan Tedder and Brent Kutzle, with Davide Rossi on strings), but the version that went out came from a late change of heart: a week before release, U2 recut it while hunting for a way to play it live, and it swung back to the guitar-heavy shape of the original demo. It topped the US Adult Alternative Songs chart, and Norwegian DJ Kygo spun it into a dance remix.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 55 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2017 | 91 |
| 2017 | 81 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2017 | 99 |
| 2017 | 76 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2017 | 40 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2017 | 88 |
| 2017 | 24 | 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA | WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2017 | 25 |
| 2017 | 22 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2017 | 104 |
| 2017 | 53 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017 | 90 |
| 2017 | 17 | 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN | WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 190 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2017 | 200 |
| 2017 | 31 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2017 | 50 |
| 2017 | 34 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2017 | 104 |
Also listed as: You're The Best Thing About Me.
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