How You Remind Me

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"How You Remind Me"
File:Nickelback - How You Remind Me - CD cover.jpg
Single by Nickelback
from the album Silver Side Up
B-side "Little Friend"
Released August 21, 2001 (2001-08-21)
(See release history)
Format CD single, CD maxi
Recorded June 2001 at Greenhouse Studios, Burnaby, British Columbia
Genre
Length 3:43
Label Roadrunner
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
Nickelback singles chronology
"Worthy to Say"
(2000)		 "How You Remind Me"
(2001)		 "Too Bad"
(2002)
Music video
"How You Remind Me" on YouTube

"How You Remind Me" is a song by Canadian alternative rock band Nickelback. It was released on August 28, 2001 as the lead single from their third studio album Silver Side Up (2001). A "Gold Mix" was made for latter editions of the single with the heavier guitars edited out of the chorus. Lead vocalist and guitarist Chad Kroeger wrote the song about his old girlfriend Jodi, with whom he had a dysfunctional relationship.[2] He refers to this song as the song that put Nickelback on the map when played at their concert in Sturgis, South Dakota. It is often considered to be their signature song.

"How You Remind Me" was named the No. 1 most played song on U.S. radio of the 2000s decade by Nielsen Soundscan, being spun over 1.2 million times on U.S. airwaves since its release in 2001 to the end of 2009.[3] The song was named 4th on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade and 75th in the UK decade-end chart.[4] It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. "How You Remind Me" was also rated the No. 1 rock song and No. 4 alternative song of the decade of the 2000s by Billboard. The song was featured in the music video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

Music video

The music video for "How You Remind Me" featured Nickelback playing a small venue with focus on a female audience member. Chad Kroeger admitted to disliking the idea of a small venue performance at first, opting for a bigger scale arena concert; however, he found the outcome of the video satisfying.

In the video, Kroeger plays a man whose girlfriend (played by model Annie Henley) has left him and is still haunted by her memory. He still feels strongly for her, and sees her everywhere he goes. Whenever he imagines her touch, he feels a warm memory, indicated by the change in lighting in the video. As the music video progresses, he starts to get over her. At the end, she shows up and apparently asks him to forgive her. This is what he thought he had wanted all along, but suddenly he realizes that it isn't really what he wanted, and pushes her away. She is left with a broken heart and haunted by memories, as he had been at the beginning of the video.

Another version of the video exists, and has been played on some UK and Australian music channels. The video simply features the footage of the band playing from the main video, added to footage of the band's live performances and tour movies.

Chart performances and awards

Due to its high sales and massive airplay, it was ranked as the top single of 2002 by Billboard magazine. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2005, for sales of over 500,000 copies, and by late 2010 it had sold around 860,000 copies total.[5]

The song went on to rack up four Billboard Awards, four Juno awards. "How You Remind Me" was the No. 1 Most Played Song of 2002 in the United States, across all formats, according to Billboard Monitor. In 2003, the song was nominated for Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

"How You Remind Me" was the No. 1 song on the Billboard's 2002 Year-End Hot 100 Singles Chart, and VH1 ranked the song as the 16th Greatest Power Ballad.[6]

The song was listed at No. 36 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.[7]

The song also hit No. 1 on the Kerrang! feature, 21st Century's Official 100 Rock Best Sellers.

The song was the 75th best-selling single of the 2000s in the UK.[8]

In Germany, it's not just the band's best charting single by reaching No. 3 on the German Singles Chart, it's also Nickelback's longest-staying single on that chart, namely a total of 30 weeks.[9]

In 2011, Fuse TV named it the No. 1 song of the decade.

It was listed as No. 9 at the Billboard Hot 100 top 100 Rock Songs of the last 50 years.

Loudwire listed the song as number 30 on its list "Top 21st Century Hard Rock Songs."[1]

Track listings

CD single
  1. "How You Remind Me" (Album version) - 3:45
  2. "How You Remind Me" (Acoustic) 3:39
  3. "Little Friend" - 3:48
CD maxi
  1. "How You Remind Me" (Gold Mix) — 3:45
  2. "How You Remind Me" (LP Version) — 3:30
  3. "Little Friend" - 3:48
  4. "How You Remind Me" (Video)

Release history

Country Release Date
United States August 21, 2001 (2001-08-21)
United Kingdom March 25, 2002 (2002-03-25)

Charts

Chart successions

Preceded by Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single
15 September – 8 December 2001		 Succeeded by
"My Sacrifice" by Creed
Preceded by Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
22 September – 15 December 2001		 Succeeded by
"In the End" by Linkin Park
Preceded by Billboard Top 40 Mainstream number-one single
22 December 2001 – 23 February 2002		 Succeeded by
"Hey Baby" by No Doubt featuring Bounty Killer
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
22 December 2001 – 12 January 2002		 Succeeded by
"Always on Time" by Ja Rule featuring Ashanti
Preceded by
"L'Amour toujours" by Gigi D'Agostino
 Danish number-one single
25 January 2002 – 1 February 2002		 Succeeded by
"Whenever, Wherever" by Shakira
Preceded by Austrian Singles Chart number-one single
10 February 2002
24 February 2002
Preceded by Irish IRMA number-one single
13 April 2002 – 11 May 2002		 Succeeded by
"Here Come The Good Times"
by Ireland World Cup Squad

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia[41] 2× Platinum 140,000
Austria[42] Gold 15,000
Belgium[43] Gold 20,000
France[44] Silver 125,000
Germany[45] Gold 150,000
Switzerland[46] Gold 15,000
United Kingdom[47] Gold 400,000
United States[48] Platinum 1,000,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Avril Lavigne version

"How You Remind Me"
Song

"How You Remind Me" was recorded by Kroeger's wife Avril Lavigne for the anime film One Piece Film: Z. It was reported on 17 October 2012 that Lavigne would be contributing two cover songs to the film, the latter track and a cover of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation".[49] Lavigne later confirmed the new recording on 5 November 2012.[50] It was released on 11 December 2012, as a digital download on the One Piece Film: Z Original Soundtrack.[51] The 2-track promotional CD single was released on the next day. It was only released in Japan.[52]

The song was re-released on 19 December 2013, via iTunes Stores, as a digital download single as a promotional tool for her self-titled fifth album.[53] Later, it was included in the Japan, Taiwan, China Tour Edition of the album as one of the bonus tracks.[54]

Background

Lavigne was in the studio with Kroeger working on her fifth studio album when she was asked to contribute a song to the film, but didn't have time to write another during the studio sessions they had left. Kroeger later commented that "Avril jokingly suggested to cover a Nickelback song, but then we both figured it'd actually be a good idea to do "How You Remind Me". We recorded a version more similar to the original, but we both were not happy with it, thinking it needs its own spin. Avril then rearranged the song and we all liked it."[55]

An audio-only video was put on Lavigne's official VEVO on 8 January 2013.[56]

Track listing

CD single[52]
  1. "How You Remind Me" – 4:05
  2. "Bad Reputation" – 2:42
Digital download[53]
  1. "How You Remind Me" – 4:05

Release history

Country Date Format Label Ref.
Japan December 12, 2012 (2012-12-12) CD Sony Music Japan [52]
United States December 19, 2013 (2013-12-19) Digital download Epic Records [53]
Canada [57]

References

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External links

Preceded by Juno Award for Best Single
2002		 Succeeded by
"Complicated" by Avril Lavigne
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