100 Years (song)

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"100 Years"
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Single by Five for Fighting
from the album The Battle for Everything
Released November 17, 2003 (2003-11-17)
Genre Soft rock[1]
Length 4:05
Label
Songwriter(s) John Ondrasik
Producer(s) Gregg Wattenberg
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"Something About You"
(2003)		 "100 Years"
(2003)		 "The Devil in the Wishing Well"
(2004)

"100 Years" is a song by American singer Five for Fighting. It was released on November 17, 2003, as the first single from his third studio album, The Battle for Everything (2004). The single reached number one on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2007, the song earned a Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for more than 1,000,000 copies sold. It also charted in Australia and New Zealand, peaking at number 32 in both countries.

Chart performance

"100 Years" peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles charts at number 28, for the week ending May 24, 2004.[2] In December 2004, on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2004 chart, "100 Years" was ranked at number 77 overall for the year.[3]

"100 Years" peaked at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for the week ending May 7, 2004.[4] It went on to be the longest-running number-one single of 2004 on the Adult Contemporary chart, staying at number one for 12 non-consecutive weeks.[5] The song spent a total of 52 weeks on the Adult Contemporary chart.[4]

Music video

The music video was directed by Trey Fanjoy and premiered on January 10, 2004. It placed at number 30 on VH1's Top 40 Music Video Countdown of 2004, spending 18 weeks on VH1's weekly Top 20 countdown. In the video, images of Ondrasik singing and playing the song at the piano are intercut with fictional, idealized versions of himself as a 15-year-old boy, a man in his middle 40s, and a 99-year-old man, reflecting the song's lyrics. At the end of the song, Ondrasik meets his older self.

Track listings

US promo CD[6]

  1. "100 Years" – 4:05

Australian CD single[7]

  1. "100 Years"
  2. "Sister Sunshine"
  3. "Maybe I" (acoustic version)
  4. "100 Years" (acoustic version)

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[15] Platinum 1,000,000

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

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States November 17, 2003 (2003-11-17)
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January 12, 2004 (2004-01-12) Adult contemporary radio [17]
February 2, 2004 (2004-02-02) Contemporary hit radio [18]
Australia May 10, 2004 (2004-05-10) CD [19]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Five for Fighting – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Five for Fighting. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
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  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Five for Fighting – Chart history" Billboard Adult Contemporary for Five for Fighting. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  5. ↑ Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart info Billboard.com. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
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  8. ↑ "Australian-charts.com – Five for Fighting – 100 Years". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  9. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Five for Fighting – 100 Years". Top 40 Singles.
  10. ↑ "Five for Fighting – Chart history" Billboard Adult Alternative Songs for Five for Fighting. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Five for Fighting – Chart history" Billboard Adult Pop Songs for Five for Fighting. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Five for Fighting – Chart history" Billboard Pop Songs for Five for Fighting. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
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