Poets (song)

"Poets" is the first single by The Tragically Hip from their sixth studio album, Phantom Power. The song reached #1 on Canada's Alternative chart, and stayed #1 for 12 weeks straight,^[1] longer than any song in the history of that chart. The song has become a live staple for the band, and has been performed at several of the band's biggest concerts, including their performance at Woodstock 1999 and at the Live 8 concert in 2005, with Dan Aykroyd playing harmonica.

Charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart^[2]	4
Canadian RPM Alternative 30^[3]	1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Chart^[4]	28
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks^[5]	39

Preceded by "Heroes" by The Wallflowers	*Canadian RPM* Rock/Alternative 30 number-one single** July 13 - September 28, 1998	Succeeded by "The Scene" by Big Sugar

References

↑ "The Tragically Hip - Poets Rock/Alternative positions". RPM.
↑ "Top Singles - Volume 67, No. 18, July 27, 1998". Retrieved 2010-05-06.
↑ "Rock/Alternative - Volume 67, No. 15a, July 13, 1998". RPM. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
↑ "Adult Contemporary - Volume 67, No. 20, August 10 1998". RPM. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
↑ "The Tragically Hip - Billboard Singles". allmusic. Retrieved 2010-09-07.

External links

"Poets" Official music video on YouTube

v t e The Tragically Hip

Gordon Downie Rob Baker Johnny Fay Paul Langlois Gord Sinclair Davis Manning

Studio albums	Up to Here Road Apples Fully Completely Day for Night Trouble at the Henhouse Phantom Power Music @ Work In Violet Light In Between Evolution World Container We Are the Same Now for Plan A

Live albums	Live Between Us

EPs	The Tragically Hip

Compilations	Hipeponymous Yer Favourites

DVDs	Heksenketel That Night in Toronto

Singles	"Small Town Bring-Down" "Highway Girl" "Blow at High Dough" "New Orleans Is Sinking" "Boots or Hearts" "38 Years Old" "Trickle Down" "Little Bones" "Three Pistols" "Twist My Arm" "Long Time Running" "On the Verge" "Locked in the Trunk of a Car" "Fifty Mission Cap" "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)" "At the Hundredth Meridian" "Looking for a Place to Happen" "Fully Completely" "Grace, Too" "Greasy Jungle" "Nautical Disaster" "So Hard Done By" "Scared" "Thugs" "Ahead by a Century" "Gift Shop" "700 Ft. Ceiling" "Flamenco" "Springtime in Vienna" "Poets" "Something On" "Fireworks" "Thompson Girl" "Bobcaygeon" "My Music at Work" "Lake Fever" "The Completists" "Freak Turbulence" "It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken" "Silver Jet" "The Darkest One" "Vaccination Scar" "Summer's Killing Us" "It Can't Be Nashville Every Night" "In View" "The Lonely End of the Rink" "Yer Not the Ocean" "Family Band" "Love Is a First" "Morning Moon" "Speed River" "Land" "At Transformation" "Streets Ahead"

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