Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song)
| "Hurt" | |
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| Promotional single by Nine Inch Nails | |
| from the album The Downward Spiral | |
| Released | April 17, 1995 |
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| Genre | |
| Length | 6:12 |
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| Songwriter(s) | Trent Reznor |
| Producer(s) | Trent Reznor |
| The Downward Spiral track listing | |
14 tracks
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| Audio | |
| "Hurt" on YouTube | |
"Hurt" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from its 1994 studio album The Downward Spiral—where it is the closing song on the album—written by Trent Reznor. It was subsequently released on April 17, 1995, as a promotional single from the album, wherein it was issued straight to radio. The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song in 1996. In 2020, Kerrang and Billboard ranked the song number two and number three, respectively, on their lists of the greatest Nine Inch Nails songs.
In 2002, American country singer Johnny Cash covered "Hurt" to commercial and critical acclaim. The related music video is considered one of the greatest of all time by publications such as NME. Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning", going so far as to say "that song isn't mine anymore".