For anyone who doesn’t know how badass Scott Stapp (of Creed) is, Check this out.
That’s… wow.
I was gonna whine that I didn’t ask for any of that, and thought better of it. But then adaher says:
Which kind of shows just how grunge creed were, which is pretty much not at all.
Don’t get used to it - to date, it’s the last country song to make #1.
Heh. If it’s any consolation, I went back and listened to some of the better grunge when Creed got big, thinking maybe the sound had just grown on me. Nope, most of it still sucks.
Really? I thought someone like Carrie Underwood would have made it. I know that country is more likely to be in the top 10 now than before 2000.
Country makes it into the top ten just fine - Florida-Georgia Line peaked at #4 last year with “Cruise”, and Taylor Swift had a number of top ten hits before she went pop. (Billboard counts “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, which made #1 in 2012, as a country song, but I wouldn’t call it country by any stretch.) It just hasn’t clinched the number-one spot in recent years.
As for Carrie Underwood, she did have a #1 in 2005 with her American Idol single “Inside Your Heaven”, which did not get airplay on country music radio and which I would barely call country myself (it’s more Mariah Carey-ish soft-R&B with a wee bit of Faith Hill-ish twang to it). Other than that, the closest she came was “Before He Cheats” at #8.
(On the country chart, for comparison’s sake, Underwood has had twelve number-ones; “Before He Cheats”, “Jesus Take the Wheel”, “Wasted”, “So Small”, “All-American Girl”, “Last Name”, “Just a Dream”, “Cowboy Cassanova”, “Temporary Home”, “Undo It”, “Good Girl”, and “Something in the Water”, the current #1. I suspect that this is because the country music world in general is smaller than it used to be.)
For the people who abstain from voting because they don’t recognize the songs by name:
This guy does a medley of every year’s #1 songs. It’s an easy way to re-acquaint yourself with the songs, and (at least in my case) prove that you know a lot more of them than you think.
Seee! See! Creed didn’t fool anyone, not even the people who didn’t like grunge.
Creed isn’t grunge. Creed is crap. 1990s Alice in Chains, now *that *is some fine grunge.
Oh jeez…can I change my answer? This wasn’t the song I thought it was. I was confusing it with “Ray of Light”. This song sucks.
Hee. Music isn’t bad, but yeah, Ray of Light is a lot better.
Judging by the song listed above, a band named “Savage Garden” should neither sound nor look like that. 
Ah, another nice year. 
I voted for Vertical Horizon, but a lot of the choices are good.
We had Amazed by Lonestar as the first dance at our wedding - I had never even heard it before until my then-fiancee suggested it (principally I think because the band we wanted to hire did it rather well) - so I had to vote for that. And it is a good song. I had no idea it was considered “country” though!
I actually liked “With Arms Wide Open” and would have voted for that had Amazed not been an option. But then, I like soft-rock and don’t much like grunge, so that explains it.
Creed and Matchbox 20 are two parts of a three-way tie for first place. That is just not right.
I don’t care how uncool it makes me sound, I’m voting for Savage Garden, man!