2000Released
2:42

Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about Dig. By Songfacts®.

On their first album, the masked marauders of Mudvayne included "Dig," a song that takes aim at the music industry. Lead singer Chad Gray didn't take it well when certain record company executives offered their unsolicited advice. "People putting their two cents worth into your art that have nothing to do with art on any level; they're completely business, but they think they know the best thing for you," is how he described them in our interview. Maybe the folks at Epic Records knew what they were doing: The L.D. 50 album went Gold and established the band as one of the top new metal acts of the decade. "Dig," released as the first single, made #33 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

The video was directed by Thomas Mignone, who also did the videos for Slipknot's "Wait and Bleed" and Sepultura's "Roots." The clip got a lot of spins on MTV2 and was the first recipient of the "MTV2 Award," given at the MTV Video Music Awards to videos that launched on the network. This award was discontinued in 2006.

Top Listeners

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Dig.
BKey
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
135BPM

Album

The album Dig is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Dig.
Epic
(P) 2000 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

See your Spotify stats (with number of plays and minutes listened) and discover new music.

Music data, artist images, album covers, and song previews are provided by Spotify. Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB.

5.9MArtists
74.8MSongs
12.5MAlbums
6.4KGenres
2.5MLabels
494KPlaylists