Red (Treble Charger song)

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"Red"
Treble Charger - Red single cover.jpg
Single by Treble Charger
from the album Maybe It's Me
Released1994 (nc17 version)
November 1997 (Maybe It's Me version)
Recorded Fort Apache Studios, Boston
Genre Alternative rock
Length5:10
Label Sonic Unyon (1997)
RCA
Songwriter(s) Treble Charger
Producer(s) Lou Giordano
Treble Charger singles chronology
"How She Died"
(1997)
"Red"
(1994)
"American Psycho"
(2000)

"Red" is a song by Canadian rock band Treble Charger. The song was originally released on their 1994 album, nc17 , and was released as a single. It was re-recorded and re-released in 1997 as the third and final single from their album Maybe It's Me .

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"Red" placed at number eight on the greatest Canadian songs of all time in a 1996 poll by music magazine Chart . [1]

Commercial performance

The song received heavy play on university and college radio and on Much Music. [2] [3]

The single debuted at No. 25 on the Canadian RPM Alternative 30 on 1 December 1997. [4] The single was on the chart for six weeks, [5] reaching its highest rank of No. 20 for the week of 15 December 1997.

The re-recorded version of "Red" also received significant airplay in the United States, peaking at No. 47 on the Radio & Records Rock chart in 1998. [6]

Charts

Chart (1997-1998)Peak
position
Canadian RPM Alternative 30 [7] 20
US Rock ( Radio & Records ) [6] 47

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References

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