"Test for Echo" is the title track and first single from Canadian

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's 16th studio album released in 1996. The song's lyrics were written by

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and

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with music written by

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and

Alex Lifeson Aleksandar Živojinović, (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Alex Lifeson (), is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist of the progressive rock band Rush. In 1968, Lifeson co-founded the band that wo ...

. The song reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard''

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chart. It was the band's fourth consecutive album to yield a chart-topper on this chart, along with "

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" from '' Presto'', "

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" from ''

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'', and "Stick It Out" from ''

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''. The song also peaked at #6 on the Canadian Singles Chart, which is the band's highest position on that chart since

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peaked at #1 in 1982.

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