"How You Remind Me" is the first single from rock band Nickelback's 2001 album, Silver Side Up. A "Gold Mix" was made for latter editions of the single with the heavier guitars edited out of the chorus. This single would be the last rock single to be #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 until Maroon 5's song "Makes Me Wonder" went to #1 six years later.

Critical reception

The band has been criticized for using a very similar sound for their later single Someday. The song also has the same "yeah, yeah" section as Miserable by Lit. Lit has been known to combine the two songs live in concert.

Chart performances and awards

The single was also released in that year, reaching the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for 4 weeks (the last rock band to do so for the next six years, until Maroon 5's Makes Me Wonder topped the chart) while it topped both the Mainstream and Modern Rock charts for 13 weeks. Outside the U.S., the song became a worldwide hit, it was #4 on the UK Singles Chart, and #1 on the Irish Singles Chart. Due to the high sales, it was ranked as the top single of 2002 by Billboard magazine. In the UK, although not reaching the dizzy heights of #1 in the charts, "How You Remind Me" stayed in the singles chart top 20 for 3 months. Although two other singles followed from Silver Side Up, ("Too Bad", "Never Again"), they were very minor hits. This shows how successful a single "How You Remind Me" was, since the 6 million copies of Silver Side Up sold in the U.S., as well as around 10 million copies sold worldwide can be nearly single handedly credited to "How You Remind Me".

The song went on to rack up four Grammy Award nominations, four Billboard Awards, four Juno awards, and countless radio accreditations. "How You Remind Me" was the #1 Most Played Song of 2002 in the United States, across all formats, according to Billboard Monitor.

"How You Remind Me" was the #1 song on the Billboard's 2002 Year-End Hot 100 Singles Chart, Hot 100 Airplay Track Chart and Hot Top 40 Track.

VH1 ranked the song as the 16th Greatest Power Ballad.

The song was listed at #36 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.

Music video

The successful music video for "How You Remind Me" featured Nickelback playing a small venue with focus on a female audience member. Chad Kroeger admitted to disliking the idea of a small venue performance at first, opting for a bigger scale arena concert; however, he found the outcome of the video satisfying.

In the music video, Chad Kroeger plays a man whose girlfriend (played by model Annie Henley) has left him and is still haunted by her memory. He still feels strongly for her, and sees her everywhere he goes. Whenever he imagines her touch, he feels a warm memory, indicated by the change in lighting in the video. As the music video progresses, he starts to get over her. At the end, she shows up and apparently asks him to forgive her. This is what he had wanted all along, but suddenly he realizes that it isn't really what he wanted, and pushes her away. She is left with a broken heart and haunted by memories, as he had been at the beginning of the video.

Cover versions

• The song was covered by Sum 41 at the MTV New Year's Eve party.
• It has also been covered by Maria Doyle Kennedy on the album Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1.
• American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis covered the song in the final six of the fourth season. He was voted off following his performance.
• A mashup of the song with a-ha's 'Take on Me' exists.
• The song was featured as a cover for the video game Karaoke Revolution.

Track listings

CD single

1. "How You Remind Me"
2. "How You Remind Me" (acoustic) CD maxi
3. "How You Remind Me" (gold mix) — 3:43
4. "How You Remind Me" (album version) — 3:43
5. "How You Remind Me" (acoustic version) — 3:28

Certifications

Country	Certification	Date	Sales certified
Australia	2 x Platinum	2001	140,000
Austria	Gold	September 27, 2002	15,000
Belgium	Gold	February 23, 2002	20,000
France	Silver	January 15, 2003	125,000
Germany	Gold	2002	150,000
Switzerland	Gold	2002	15,000
UK	Gold	May 24, 2002	400,000
U.S.	Gold	November 18, 2005	500,000

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks	1
1
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	2
Austrian Top 75 Singles Chart	1
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart	2
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart	4
Canadian Airplay Chart	1
Danish Singles Chart	1
Dutch Top 40	17
Finnish Singles Chart	18
French SNEP Singles Chart	11
German Singles Chart	3
Irish Singles Chart	1
Italian Singles Chart	14
Lithuanian Airplay Chart	1
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	4
Norwegian Singles Chart	4
Swedish Top 60	4
Swiss Singles Chart	3
UK Singles Chart	4
United World Chart	3

End of year chart (2002)	Position
Australian Singles Chart	48
Austrian Singles Chart	6
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart	17
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart	56
French Singles Chart	98
Swiss Singles Chart	13

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