Ironic (song)

"Ironic" is a song written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard.  It was produced by Glen Ballard for Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill.  It was released as the album's fourth single in 1996.  The song received a Grammy nomination in 1997 for Record of the Year.

 Success 
"Ironic" became Morissette's second number-one hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States.  It stayed there for three weeks.  The song became Morissette's highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number four.  It is one of only two songs by Morissette to crack the top-ten on that chart, the other being "You Learn", backed with a live version of "You Oughta Know", which reached number six. Both songs were from Jagged Little Pill.  In other countries, "Ironic" wasn't as successful.  It was still a moderate Top 20 hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 11.  It is considered to be one of Morissette's biggest hits.  The song also received critical praise at the time of its release.  Ironic is still popular today, mainly because there are still debates surrounding the lyrics of the song, and whether the examples mentioned in the song actually qualify as being ironic.

Covers
The pop-punk band Four Year Strong covered the song in their 90's cover album "Explains It All."

Charts

Chart (1996)"Ironic", in Swiss, French, Dutch, Belgian (Flanders and Wallonia), Swedish, Norwegian, Australian and New Zealander Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved January 28, 2008)PeakpositionAustralian Singles Chart3Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart6Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart9Canadian Singles Chart1Canadian RPM Rock/Alternative Chart1Dutch Singles Chart6French Singles Chart16German Singles Chart8New Zealand Singles Chart3Norwegian Singles Chart4Swedish Singles Chart24

Chart (1996)PeakpositionSwiss Singles Chart9UK Singles Chart11U.S. Billboard Hot 1004U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks1U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks18U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary28U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream1U.S. Billboard Adult Top 405U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 4011

Chart procession and succession

References

Category:1996 songs
Category:Alanis Morissette songs
Category:Rock songs