"One Thing" is a song by Canadian rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band Finger Eleven

Finger Eleven

Finger Eleven is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, formed in 1989. They have currently released five studio albums, with their album The Greyest of Blue Skies bringing them into the mainstream...

 and the second single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from their self-titled album

Finger Eleven (album)

Finger Eleven is the fourth album from the Canadian alternative rock band Finger Eleven. Because of its commercial success, they were welcomed to the SnoCore 2004 tour. "One Thing" became the biggest single off this record, reaching 16 on the Billboard Hot 100...

. Released in September 2003, it won the 2004 MuchMusic

MuchMusic

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 Video Award for Best Video. It was written by Scott Anderson, and James Black.

The band had thought their single "Stay in Shadow" would become a popular hit, but strong success fell on "One Thing" instead, although the track didn't find wide mainstream attention until several months after its 2003 release. "One Thing" reached #16 in the US and had exposure on TV series such as Smallville

Smallville (TV series)

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, Scrubs

Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

, Law And Order SVU and Third Watch

Third Watch

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. It was used on World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment

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's (WWE's) June 25, 2007, edition of RAW

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during a tribute video featuring Chris Benoit

Chris Benoit

Christopher Michael "Chris" Benoit was a Canadian professional wrestler whose career and life ended in a murder–suicide...

 who had killed himself on June 24.

Music video

The award-winning music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 features black and white footage of the band in a surreal

Surrealism

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 nocturnal environment featuring a beach with a checkered pattern

Checkerboard

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 shore. A massive hourglass

Hourglass

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 is seen on the checkered floor as well as band members perched on tall stands and leafless trees. Other imagery includes a crow, a woman standing over thousands of candles along a building floor, a symphony orchestra conductor conducting an empty orchestra, and a musical box

Musical box

A music box is a 19th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pluck the tuned teeth of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and called carillons à musique...

 with a spinning, life-like ballerina

Ballerina

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. The "One Thing" video is featured on WWE's Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero

Eddie Guerrero

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 Story and Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story DVDs as an extra.

Chart positions

Chart (2003–2004)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	16
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	38
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks	5