Fuel (Metallica song)

"Fuel"
"Fuel"
Single by Metallica
from the album Reload
B-side	"Sad but True" (live)
Released	June 22, 1998
Studio	The Plant (Sausalito, California)
Genre	Heavy metal; hard rock;
Length	4:26
Label	Elektra
Composers	Kirk Hammett; James Hetfield; Lars Ulrich;
Lyricist	James Hetfield
Producer	Bob Rock
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	"Fuel" on YouTube
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	Fuel file; help;

B-side"Sad but True" (live)

ReleasedJune 22, 1998^[1]

StudioThe Plant (Sausalito, California)

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"Fuel" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett, and was released as the third single from their seventh album, Reload (1997). Inspired by Hetfield's love of custom cars, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1999 but lost to Jimmy Page and Robert Plant for the song "Most High".^[4] It was moderately successful on the music charts, peaking at number 2 in Australia, number three in Hungary, number 5 in Finland and number 6 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

Since its release, "Fuel" has remained a regular on Metallica's live setlists.^[4] It has featured on the live albums Cunning Stunts, S&M, Français Pour une Nuit, Orgullo, Pasión, y Gloria: Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México, Live at Grimey's and Through The Never.

A demo version of the song called "Fuel for Fire" (with different lyrics) was used as the theme song for NASCAR on NBC from 2001 until the 2004 Daytona 500.^[5] The song was also featured in the video game Fortnite in the Chapter 5 Season 3 Trailer and in Fortnite Festival.^[6]

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Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)^[28]	2× Platinum	140,000^‡
United Kingdom (BPI)^[29]	Silver	200,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Region	Date	Format	Label	Ref(s).
United States	March 10, 1998	Alternative radio	Elektra	^[30]
United Kingdom	June 22, 1998	CD	Elektra	^[31]^[32]
Japan	August 26, 1998	CD	Sony	^[33]

v t e Metallica songs
Discography Songs recorded
Kill 'Em All	"The Four Horsemen" "Jump in the Fire "(Anesthesia) – Pulling Teeth" "Whiplash" "Seek & Destroy"
Ride the Lightning	"For Whom the Bell Tolls" "Fade to Black" "Creeping Death"
Master of Puppets	"Battery" "Master of Puppets" "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" "Disposable Heroes" "Orion"
...And Justice for All	"Blackened" "...And Justice for All" "Eye of the Beholder" "One" "Harvester of Sorrow" "To Live Is to Die"
Metallica	"Enter Sandman" "Sad but True" "The Unforgiven" "Wherever I May Roam" "Don't Tread on Me" "Nothing Else Matters" "The God That Failed"
Load	"Ain't My Bitch" "Until It Sleeps" "King Nothing" "Hero of the Day" "Bleeding Me" "Mama Said"
Reload	"Fuel" "The Memory Remains" "The Unforgiven II" "Better Than You"
Garage Inc.	"Am I Evil?" "Breadfan" "Last Caress/Green Hell" "Stone Cold Crazy" "Turn the Page" "Whiskey in the Jar" "Die, Die My Darling"
St. Anger	"Frantic" "St. Anger" "Some Kind of Monster" "The Unnamed Feeling" "All Within My Hands"
Death Magnetic	"Broken, Beat & Scarred" "The Day That Never Comes" "All Nightmare Long" "Cyanide" "The Unforgiven III" "The Judas Kiss" "My Apocalypse"
Hardwired... to Self-Destruct	"Hardwired" "Atlas, Rise!" "Now That We're Dead" "Moth into Flame" "Spit Out the Bone"
72 Seasons	"72 Seasons" "Screaming Suicide" "Lux Æterna" "If Darkness Had a Son" "Inamorata"
Other songs	"No Leaf Clover" "I Disappear" "The View"
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