"Black Hole Sun" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, the song was released in 1994 as the third single from the band's fourth studio album Superunknown (1994).
It is arguably the band's most recognizable and most popular song, and remains a well known song from the 1990s. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it spent a total of seven weeks at number one.
Despite peaking at number two on the Modern Rock Tracks, "Black Hole Sun" finished as the number-one track of 1994 for that chart. It failed to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 due to not receiving a physical release at the time, but it still peaked at number 24 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and number nine on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. Worldwide, the single reached the top 10 in Australia, Canada, France and Ireland.