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"Jeremy" is een muzieknummer uit 1992 van de Amerikaanse rockband Pearl Jam. Het is afkomstig van het in 1991 uitgegeven album Ten, dat in de Verenigde Staten 13 miljoen keer verkocht is. Het is een van de bekendere nummers van de band. De bekendheid komt mede vanwege het succes van de bijbehorende videoclip welke door MTV werd uitgeroepen tot Best Video of the Year.

In de NPO Radio 2 Top 2000 is het nummer een van de grootste stijgers van de afgelopen jaren. In 2014 stond het nummer op plek 196. Jeremy nummer steeg van plek 1497 in 2012 naar plek 602 in 2013. Van Pearl Jam staan alleen de nummers Black, Just Breathe en Alive op een hogere plek.

"Jeremy" is a song by American rock band Pearl Jam, with lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music composed by bassist Jeff Ament. "Jeremy" was released in August 1992 as the third single from Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten (1991). The song was inspired by a newspaper article Vedder read about Jeremy Wade Delle, a high school student who shot himself in front of his English class on January 8, 1991. It reached the number 5 spot on both the Album and Modern Rock Billboard charts. It did not originally chart on the regular Billboard Hot 100 singles chart since it was not released as a commercial single in the US at the time, but a re-release in July 1995 brought it up to number 79.

The song gained popularity for its music video, directed by Mark Pellington and released in 1992, which received heavy rotation by MTV and became a hit. The original music video for "Jeremy" was directed and produced by Chris Cuffaro. Epic Records and MTV later rejected the music video, and released the version directed by Pellington instead. In 1993, the "Jeremy" video was awarded four MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Video of the Year.