'Ironic' reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining Morissette's highest-charting single on that chart, and topped the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart for six weeks. The song's iconic music video received six MTV Video Music Award nominations, winning three. Despite debates over its technical use of irony, the song's themes of life's unpredictability resonated widely, making it a defining anthem of the 90s.