Editing In Bloom (section)

===Legacy===
In 2011, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked "In Bloom" at number 415 on their list of the "[[The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]".<ref>"{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/aerosmith-sweet-emotion-20110526 |title=The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (1–500) |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=11 December 2003 |access-date=2015-04-21 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212045924/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/aerosmith-sweet-emotion-20110526 |archive-date=December 12, 2015}}</ref> In 2019, the magazine ranked it second on their ranking of 102 Nirvana songs.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/no-apologies-all-102-nirvana-songs-ranked-175683/in-bloom-31548/|title=No Apologies: All 102 Nirvana Songs Ranked|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=April 5, 2019|accessdate=January 15, 2022}}</ref> In 2023, [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] ranked "In Bloom" at number 10 on ''[[the A.V. Club|the A.V. Club's]]'' "Essential Nirvana: Their 30 greatest songs, ranked" list.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thomas Erlewine |first1=Stephen |title=Essential Nirvana: Their 30 greatest songs, ranked |url=https://www.avclub.com/essential-nirvana-best-songs-ranked-1850854298/slides/22 |access-date=10 December 2023 |work=The A.V. Club |date=21 September 2023}}</ref> According to [[Nielsen Music]]'s year-end report for 2019, "In Bloom" was the seventh most-played song of the decade on mainstream rock radio with 131,000 spins. All of the songs in the top 10 were from the 1990s.<ref name="MainstreamRockDecade2010-2019">{{Cite web |url=https://loudwire.com/nirvana-most-played-radio-rock-band-decade/ |title=Nirvana Were the Most-Played Band of the Decade on Rock Radio |last=Trapp |first=Philip |date=January 14, 2020 |access-date=January 23, 2020 |website=[[Loudwire]] |archive-date=January 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116015928/https://loudwire.com/nirvana-most-played-radio-rock-band-decade/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2019, Cobain was given a songwriting credit on the single "[[Panini (song)|Panini]]" by American rapper and singer [[Lil Nas X]], due to the song having a similar chorus melody as "In Bloom". As Nas X explained in a [[SiriusXM]] interview, "I put out the snippet [of 'Panini'] and everyone was like, 'Wow, he's sampling Nirvana.' I was like, 'Where? I'm not sampling Nirvana, this beat doesn't have Nirvana in it.' Then, I listened to 'In Bloom' in full, and I was like, 'Oh, okay.'"  Nas X revealed that the song was approved by Kurt's daughter, [[Frances Bean Cobain]], and that the experience "actually got me into ''[Nevermind]'' for the first time."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Aniftos |first1=Rania |title=Lil Nas X Says Frances Bean Cobain Approved His Accidental Nirvana Sample on 'Panini' |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8529122/lil-nas-x-frances-bean-cobain-approved-panini-nirvana-sample |access-date=3 November 2020 |magazine=Billboard |date=4 September 2019 |archive-date=24 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124075508/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8529122/lil-nas-x-frances-bean-cobain-approved-panini-nirvana-sample |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a 2021 interview with the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Cobain's widow, [[Courtney Love]], said she was "very firmly in the club that says ‘In Bloom’ should have been the first single" from ''Nevermind'', calling it "a far better song" than "Smells Like Teen Spirit."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Charles R. |first1=Cross |title='I never talk about "Nevermind"!': Courtney Love on the Nirvana album that changed everything |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-09-24/courtney-love-nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-kurt-cobain?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0YBSlPmBDlyEGCzrn9oaJSFe62bKFLQn7JXPvK8EaIV8JwvXVzYqA6c9Q |access-date=26 September 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=24 September 2021 |archive-date=26 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926053322/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-09-24/courtney-love-nirvana-nevermind-30th-anniversary-kurt-cobain?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0YBSlPmBDlyEGCzrn9oaJSFe62bKFLQn7JXPvK8EaIV8JwvXVzYqA6c9Q |url-status=live }}</ref>