Lightning Crashes

"Lightning Crashes"
Artwork for European retail releases
Single by Live
from the album Throwing Copper
ReleasedSeptember 24, 1994
Genre
Length
  • 5:25 (album version)
  • 4:24 (edit)
LabelRadioactive
Songwriter(s)Live
Producer(s)
Live singles chronology
"I Alone"
(1994) 		"Lightning Crashes"
(1994) 		"All Over You"
(1994)

"Lightning Crashes" is a song by American rock band Live. It was released in September 1994 as the third single from their second studio album, Throwing Copper. Although the track was not released as a single in the United States, it received enough radio airplay to peak at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart in 1995. The song also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for 10 weeks and the Modern Rock Tracks chart for nine weeks. Internationally, the song reached No. 3 in Canada, No. 8 in Iceland, and No. 13 in Australia.

In 2021, Billboard ranked "Lightning Crashes" as the 70th-biggest hit in the history of the Mainstream Rock chart;[4][5] the same publication ranked the song as the 22nd-biggest hit in the history of Alternative Airplay two years later.[6][7]

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  3. ^ Waldman, Scott (April 3, 2020). "10 Best Pop-Rock Songs of the '90s". Loudwire. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  4. ^ Johnson, Josh (June 3, 2021). "Shinedown named number-one artist on 'Billboard's' 40th anniversary Mainstream Rock chart". ABC Audio. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
  5. ^ "Greatest of All Time Mainstream Rock Songs". Billboard. Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
  6. ^ Rutherford, Kevin (September 7, 2023). "Alternative Airplay Chart's 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, 'Monsters' New Top Song". Billboard. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
  7. ^ "Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs". Billboard. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved November 11, 2023.