"One More Astronaut" is a song by Canadian rock band

I Mother Earth I Mother Earth, or IME, is a Canadian rock band. The band formed in 1990, reaching its peak popularity in the latter half of the 1990s. After an eight-year hiatus, it reunited in 2012. Between 1996 and 2016, it was among the top 150 best-selling ...

. It was released as the lead single from the band's second studio album, ''

Scenery and Fish ''Scenery and Fish'' is the second album by the Canadian rock band I Mother Earth, released by Capitol and EMI in 1996. It is the band's most commercially successful album, going double platinum in Canada and selling 320,000 units in Canada by ...

''. It is considered to be the band's

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. It is also the band's highest charting U.S. hit, peaking at 19 on the ''

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Reception

"One More Astronaut reached #1 on Canada's Alternative chart. It was also the band's most successful song in the United States. The song won the 1996

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for "Favourite New Song". The song ranked #58 on ''

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's'' ''Top 100 Big Tunes of The 90s''.

In popular culture

*The song is featured as the first track on the

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Big Shiny Tunes ''Big Shiny Tunes'' is a series of rock albums compiled and released by the Canadian music television station MuchMusic, and through MusiquePlus in Quebec, from 1996 to 2009. The best-selling album of the series was ''Big Shiny Tunes 2'', which w ...

compilation series.

Charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

* 1996 singles I Mother Earth songs 1996 songs EMI Records singles {{1990s-metal-song-stub