Youngest Daughter (song)

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"Youngest Daughter"
Song by Superheaven
from the album Jar
ReleasedApril 30, 2013
RecordedDecember 2012
Studio Studio 4 Recording Studios, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Genre
Length4:09
Label Run for Cover
Songwriter(s)
  • Taylor Madison
  • Jake Clarke
  • Joe Kane
  • Zack Robbins
Producer(s) Will Yip

"Youngest Daughter" is a song by American rock band Superheaven, appearing on the band's debut studio album Jar . Despite not being released as a single, the song has become the band's most popular, reaching over 100 million streams on Spotify. [2]

Contents

Lyrics and music

Written collectively by the band, the lyrics to "Youngest Daughter" focus on Taylor Madison's sister and her struggles with heroin addiction. [1]

Fred Thomas of AllMusic described the song's sound as "somewhere between Sunny Day Real Estate and Alice in Chains." [3]

Popularity

"Youngest Daughter" gained widespread popularity in the early 2020s after it was featured in several TikTok videos, with Jake Clarke commenting that it "was really exciting to see that there was still interest in the band." [4] The song would gain further popularity after it was sampled by American rappers Yeat and Bnyx in their song "Go Again." [2] [5]

Thanks to its viral popularity, "Youngest Daughter" would reach 100 million streams on Spotify and chart 10 years after its initial release.

Charts

Chart performance for "Youngest Daughter"
Chart (2023)Peak
position
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 22
US Hot Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 17
US Hot Rock Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 14

Personnel

Superheaven

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