Higher (Creed song)

"Higher"
Single by Creed
from the album Human Clay
Released	August 31, 1999 (1999-08-31)
Genre	Post-grunge hard rock[1] alternative rock[2]
Length	5:16 (album version) 4:44 (radio edit)
Label	Wind-up
Songwriter(s)	Scott Stapp Mark Tremonti
Producer(s)	John Kurzweg
Creed singles chronology
"One" (1998) "Higher" (1999) "What If" (2000)
Music video
"Higher" on YouTube

"Higher" is a song by American rock band Creed. It was released on August 31, 1999, as the lead single from their second studio album, Human Clay. The song became the band's breakthrough hit as it was their first song to reach the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100 where it peaked at number seven in July 2000. It spent a total of 57 weeks upon the survey, the longest stay for any Creed song on the Hot 100. "Higher" also became the band's second chart-topping hit on rock radio as it topped both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts, for a then-record of 17 weeks.