Chart Performance
"You Oughta Know" received moderate success worldwide. The song peaked at number twenty in Morissette's native Canada and number four in Australia. The song reached number twenty-five in New Zealand, albeit continuously leaving and re-entering the charts, due to the varied success of Jagged Little Pill at different periods of time. The song peaked at number thirty-eight in Sweden, number seventeen in the Netherlands and number twenty-two in the United Kingdom. It also peaked at the top spot on the United States Alternative charts, becoming Morissette's first number one single.
Unusually, the song was only a modest hit in Morissette's native Canada, peaking only at number twenty in RPM. Music journalists ascribed the song's underperformance to a resistance from Canadian radio programmers and audiences, because the song represented such a dramatic shift from Morissette's established image as a dance-pop teen star. It was the only single from the album to underperform in Canada relative to other markets.
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