100 Years

Infobox Single
Name = 100 Years


Artist = Five for Fighting
from Album = The Battle for Everything
Released = February 3, 2004 (CD Release) Single released on radio in late 2003
Format = Standard
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:05
Label = Columbia/Aware
Writer = John Ondrasik (lyricist/composer)
Producer = Bill Bottrell
Reviews =
Last single = "America Town"
This single = 100 Years
Next single = "The Devil in the Wishing Well"
(2004)

"100 Years" is the first single from the album "The Battle for Everything" released by Five for Fighting (John Ondrasik) in 2004.

The song is about a man who is 99 and about to turn 100, who looks back at his life to see whether he really "lived" it or not. The song's main theme is to never take life for granted, and all of the time we have on Earth is right now, so we should make the most of it.

In December 2004, on the Billboard Hot 100 end-of-the-year music chart, "100 Years" was ranked at #77 for the year. 100 Years was also the longest running #1 single of the year on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, staying at #1 for 12 weeks. It was the second-longest run at #1 in that chart's history, behind "Drift Away" by Uncle Kracker in 2003, which lasted 28 weeks at #1. The music video for "100 Years" placed at #32 on VH1's Top 40 Music Video Countdown of 2004, spending 18 weeks on VH1's weekly Top 20 countdown.

Use in pop culture

* A widely-viewed television commercial for JP Morgan Chase.
* An episode of the The CW series "Smallville."
* Used in an episode of The CW series One Tree Hill
* Used in an episode of CBS's Joan of Arcadia
* The episode My Half-Acre of the NBC series "Scrubs."
* An episode of the CBS series "Clubhouse"
* The last scenes of the final episode of the long-running CBS series "JAG."
* A retrospective during Katie Couric's last day as host of NBC's "Today" show.
* ESPN's SportsCenter during a weeklong segment series on the connections between music and sports. Film clips of athletes were shown to match the years that Ondrasik would name in the song lyrics.
* Used on a video montage played before game 4 of the World Series in 2004, as clips of the Red Sox history played in the background.
* The trailer for "Spanglish".
* Used in an episode of MTV's Laguna Beach
* Used in ABC Family's original movie, "The Search for David's Heart" (2004)
*And used in dozens of other films and television programs