"Hit" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic alternative rock band The Sugarcubes and is the lead single from their third and final album, Stick Around for Joy, and was released on December 30, 1991. The song became the band's most successful hit, reaching number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US and #17 on the UK Singles Chart.

Lyrically, the song has been interpolated by fans as a song about "falling in love against your own will, as if love all of a sudden becomes the violent part and takes you over, and then you're stuck with this guy constantly on your mind, it's annoying 'cause you planned other things in life, and you want to be free", "Just when you thought you're feeling great about being single, someone new came up and ruined the whole thing."

A music video for the song, directed by Óskar Jónasson, was released along with the single. Another version was directed in 1992 by Pedro Romhanyi.

UK 7" vinyl

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UK 12" vinyl

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UK CD1

The track was covered by the English indie rock band Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine (also known as "Carter USM") in 1993 as a B-side to their single "Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over" off their fourth album, Post Historic Monsters.

Credits adapted from Stick Around for Joy's liner notes.

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