Reception
"Trouble" was a commercial success. It reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the band's second Top 10 single in the United Kingdom after "Yellow". Aside from the album's successful previous single releases, the performance of "Trouble" has been attributed to the "colossal home sales" of Parachutes in the United Kingdom.
The positive reception of the single continued when the British outfit Lost Witness made a remixed version of the song, which was released and became "an unlikely dance floor anthem". With three singles successfully released, the band decided to abandon their initial plans of issuing "Don't Panic" as the fourth single of the album, deemed enough for a single album in the United Kingdom. "Don't Panic", however, was eventually released in some European regions.
In the United States, the single's chart performance was nearly as successful as that of "Yellow"'s. It has reached number 23 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 and 28 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks. Martin has claimed that the single had saved them from being a "one-hit wonder" band. The band, thinking it was not a "great single", surmised it would not perform well in the United States.
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