How You Remind Me

"How You Remind Me"
Single by Nickelback
from the album Silver Side Up
B-side	"Little Friend"
Released	July 17, 2001 (2001-07-17)
Studio	Greenhouse (Burnaby, British Columbia)
Genre	Post-grunge[1] alternative rock[2] hard rock[3]
Length	3:43
Label	Roadrunner
Composer(s)	Nickelback
Lyricist(s)	Chad Kroeger
Producer(s)	Rick Parashar Nickelback
Nickelback singles chronology
"Worthy to Say" (2000) "How You Remind Me" (2001) "Too Bad" (2001)
Music video
"How You Remind Me" on YouTube

"How You Remind Me"

Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" from Silver Side Up

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"How You Remind Me" is a song by Canadian rock band Nickelback. With lyrics written by lead singer Chad Kroeger and music composed by the band, the track was released on July 17, 2001, as the lead single from their third studio album, Silver Side Up (2001). A "Gold Mix" was made for latter editions of the single, with the heavier guitars edited out of the chorus.

Considered to be Nickelback's signature song,^[4] "How You Remind Me" reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 and was named the number-one most played song on US radio of the 2000s decade by Nielsen Soundscan, being spun over 1.2 million times on US airwaves since its release in 2001 to the end of 2009.^[5] The song was ranked fourth on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade and 75th on the UK decade-end chart.^[6] It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. "How You Remind Me" was also rated the number-one rock song and number-four alternative song of the decade of the 2000s by Billboard.

The song was featured in the music video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and in a recut, PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 titled Once Upon a Deadpool. The song played a large role in a Saturday Night Live skit on March 10, 2018, with Sterling K. Brown in which the lyrics are a dying woman's final words.^[7]