Broadway | |
Cover: | Broadway GGD Single.jpg |
Caption: | German maxi-single artwork |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Goo Goo Dolls |
Album: | Dizzy Up the Girl |
Length: | 3:58 |
Label: | Warner Bros. |
Producer: |
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Prev Title: | Black Balloon |
Prev Year: | 1999 |
Next Title: | Here Is Gone |
Next Year: | 2002 |
"Broadway" is a song recorded by the Goo Goo Dolls. The song was released in March 2000 as the last single from their sixth studio album, Dizzy Up the Girl (1998). Although not as popular as the albums previous singles "Iris" and "Slide", the song entered the top 30 in the United States, peaking at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 and coming in at number 84 on the Billboard year-end Hot 100 singles of 2000. The single also peaked number seven on the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart and number six on the Icelandic Singles Chart.
The song refers to the Broadway-Filmore neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, a lower income, working-class neighborhood in which songwriter John Rzeznik grew up. It also describes Rzeznik's difficult relationship with his alcoholic father, who died when Rzeznik was 15, and the "cycle of destruction" that he witnessed in the neighborhood. The lyrics "See the young man sittin' in the old man's bar / Waitin' for his turn to die" specifically refers to a common occurrence he saw in the bar he and his father frequented:[1]
German maxi-CD single[2]
Australian maxi-CD single[3] [4]
Chart (2000) | Peak position |
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Australia (ARIA)[5] | 66 |
Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[6] | 6 |
Chart (2000) | Position | |
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Iceland (Íslenski Listinn Topp 40)[7] | 66 | |
US Billboard Hot 100[8] | 84 | |
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[9] | 13 | |
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[10] | 54 |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | |
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United States | March 27, 2000 | Warner Bros. | [11] [12] | |
March 28, 2000 |