"Daughter" is the second single from Pearl Jam's second studio album, Vs. It was released as a single in 1993. The acoustic guitar-driven song remains one of Pearl Jam's preeminent songs, and helped solidify the group's success following the monumental Ten. "Daughter" topped both the Mainstream and Modern Rock Billboard charts. The song spent a total of eight weeks at number 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart. "Daughter" eventually peaked at number 28 on the Top 40 Mainstream chart, becoming the band's first Top 40 single. In 1995, the song was nominated for the Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. "Daughter" is also on the compilation album Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003.

It has remained an alternative radio staple and is played at nearly every Pearl Jam show, almost always with an extension of the ending that could be an improvisation or a segment of another song. This extension is called a "Daughter tag". A different form of extension to the song was first introduced in their performance on Saturday Night Live in April 1994, just 8 days after the death of Nirvana frontman and grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain. A tribute to Cobain, it is called "Daughter/Hey Hey, My My" by fans, since the extension is from the Neil Young song "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)", which Cobain's suicide note had quoted.

The song's live debut took place at Neil Young's 1992 Bridge School Benefit. Live performances of "Daughter" can be found on the "Dissident"/Live in Atlanta box set and the live albums Live on Two Legs, Live at Benaroya Hall, and Live at the Gorge 05/06. Performances of the song are also included on the DVDs Touring Band 2000, Live at the Showbox, and Live at the Garden.

"Daughter" is a rare The Smashing Pumpkins flexidisc single written by Billy Corgan and D'arcy Wretzky that was issued only to Reflex Magazine subscribers. .

It was the only song released on the single, and had no b-side. The song is an extended version of a track from the 1989 Moon demos which the Smashing Pumpkins sold at their early shows in Chicago. The song has never been widely released, and this magazine subscription only single was pressed in very limited quantities, and was not included in their Rarities and B-Sides digital collection. Since flexidiscs are notoriously unreliable and its limited distribution, this is among the rarest Smashing Pumpkins releases.

The song is incorrectly credited solely to Billy Corgan on the flexidisc, however the Moon tape's liner notes state that it was actually written by both Corgan and D'arcy Wretzky.