Higher (Creed song)

"Higher"
Single by Creed
from the album Human Clay
Released	August 24, 1999 (1999-08-24)
Format	CD
Recorded	1999
Genre	Hard rock, post-grunge
Length	5:16 (album version) 4:44 (radio edit)
Label	Wind-up
Writer(s)	Scott Stapp, Steven Harang, Mark Tremonti
Producer(s)	John Kurzweg
Creed singles chronology
"One" (1999) "Higher" (1999) "What If" (2000)

"Higher" is a song by American post-grunge band Creed. It was released in August 1999 as the lead single from their second studio album, Human Clay. Vocalist Scott Stapp and long-time friend Steven Harang wrote the song about the power of lucid dreaming.^[1] "Higher" was Creed's major breakthrough hit which helped to place them firmly in the American mainstream music scene. It peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue dated July 22, 2000, and spent 57 weeks upon the survey, which is the longest stay for any Creed song on the Hot 100. Furthermore, it topped both the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock tallies in the process, setting a then-record of 17 weeks for longest stay at the top of the Mainstream Rock chart. It also charted in the top five on the Adult Top 40 chart.

Legacy

"Higher" placed at #95 on VH1's "100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs" in 2009.^[2]

In popular culture

• "Higher" is featured in many of the theatrical trailers for the 2000 film, Titan A.E. However, the song itself does not appear either in the actual film or its accompanying soundtrack.
• "Higher" is featured in the films The Skulls and 22 Jump Street..
• "Higher" is mentioned in the book, The Ishbane Conspiracy, written in 2001 by Randy Alcorn, Angela Alcorn, and Karina Alcorn.
• "Higher" was released as downloadable content for the musical video game, Rock Band 2, in July 2010.
• In the film Neighbors, the boys of Delta Psi briefly sang the chorus in their meeting.

Chart performance

Peak positions

Year-end charts

See also

• List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1990s
• List of Billboard number-one alternative singles of the 1990s

References

External links

• Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics