<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> <P> "Tubthumping" (also known colloquially as "I Get Knocked Down", after the first line) is a song released by British rock band Chumbawamba in 1997 . It was the band's most successful song, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart . It topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and peaked at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 (although it topped the US Modern Rock and Mainstream Top 40 charts). At the 1998 Brit Awards, "Tubthumping" was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single . As of April 2017, the song had sold 880,000 copies in the UK . </P> <P> The song was the group's lead single from Tubthumper, their major - label debut . Vocalist Dunstan Bruce retrospectively observed that, before the group wrote the song, they "were in a mess: we had become directionless and disparate". He credited "Tubthumping" with changing that, telling the Guardian that "It's not our most political or best song, but it brought us back together . The song is about us--as a class and as a band . The beauty of it was we had no idea how big it would be ." </P>

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