Reception
"Don't Look Back in Anger" was met with high critical praise and it became a commercial hit.
Billboard said of the tune, "Noel Gallagher reveals a deft sense of timing and craft that turn his improprieties into masterful pop gems."
"Don't Look Back in Anger" is Oasis's sixth biggest Billboard hit in the US, reaching the number 10 spot on the US Modern Rock Chart for the week of 22 June 1996.
It was the 10th-biggest-selling single of 1996 in the UK.
It is Oasis's 3rd biggest selling single in the UK with 660,000 sales going platinum in the process.
In a 2006 readers' poll conducted by Q magazine, "Don't Look Back in Anger" was voted the 20th best song of all time.
In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Don't Look Back in Anger" at number 14 in its list of the "50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever".
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