‘Comfortably Numb’ Never Hit the Billboard Hot 100

Here’s one that trips people up: “Comfortably Numb” never charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Not even once. For a song that’s now a rock radio staple and routinely called one of the greatest guitar solos of all time, it’s wild that it never cracked the mainstream singles chart during its original 1980 release.

The single came out after “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” had already been a massive #1 hit, and The Wall album was still dominating. But Capitol Records pulled a second single from the record, and “Comfortably Numb” just didn’t get the same pop radio push. It did peak at #23 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock