<P> "Stacy's Mom" reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's highest - charting hit in the United States . Additionally, the song peaked within the top 10 in Ireland, and the top 20 in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia . The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over 500,000 copies . It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Pop Performance . The song was accompanied with a music video in which model Rachel Hunter plays the titular role . "Stacy's Mom" was the only mainstream hit by Fountains of Wayne . </P> <P> The song has been frequently misattributed to pop punk band Bowling for Soup, who in 2011 released their own cover version of the song . </P> <P> "Stacy's Mom" was written by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger . Stylistically it is power pop . Part of the song's inspiration was a friend Schlesinger had growing up who thought Schlesinger's grandmother was hot . "One of my best friends, when we were maybe 11 or 12, came to me and announced that he thought my grandmother was hot . And I said,' Hey, you're stepping over the line,' but at that point in life, I wouldn't put it past anyone," he recalled . He hoped to strike a balance "between humor and personality" with the song . In writing the song, he was hoping to take influence from new wave and power pop music: "I was thinking a little bit about "Mrs. Robinson" and sonically I was thinking about the Cars, a Rick Springfield sort of thing ." He acknowledged that stylistically, the song "owes a debt" to the Cars' "Just What I Needed"; its opening guitar riff is similar . The Cars' frontman Ric Ocasek thought that the intro was a sample from "Just What I Needed" but the band says they performed it in the studio and just "got it right ." </P> <P> "Stacy's Mom" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of October 11, 2003 at number 59, making this their first song to appear on that chart . It entered the top 40 the week after by moving twenty - one spots to number 38 and moved nine spots to number 31 on the week of October 25, 2003 . It peaked at number 21 the week of November 21, 2003 and stayed there for two weeks . It stayed on the chart for seventeen weeks . </P>

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