SHINEDOWN Scores 13th 'Mainstream Rock Songs' No. 1 With 'Get Up'

According to Billboard, SHINEDOWN has landed its 13th No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart with “Get Up”, the second single from the Florida band’s sixth studio album, “Attention Attention”.

Only THREE DAYS GRACE has had more Mainstream Rock No. 1s — 14.

“Attention Attention”, SHINEDOWN‘s sixth studio album, debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums chart back in May. The follow-up to 2015’s “Threat To Survival” marked SHINEDOWN‘s first full-length effort to be produced entirely by bassist Eric Bass. The 14-song release that tells the story of a character who starts out defeated and slowly overcomes pain and personal struggles and becomes confident at the end. The album also lyrically touches upon singer Brent Smith‘s former drug addiction and Bass‘s depression.

Smith told Classic Rock magazine that “Get Up” is “one of the quintessential songs on the record. I wrote the lyrics to ‘Get Up’ about Eric, who produced and mixed the record,” he said. “Eric faces what is considered to be clinical depression on a daily basis. Some days everything is great, some days the sky is falling in. Often he’ll tell me he wishes he could unscrew part of his skull, reach into his brain and take that part of him out and throw it away. But it is a part of him, and he has to work with it. He doesn’t have to like it, but he has to respect it. And as a band, we all respect him because of it. It was one of the songs that took the longest to write because I was afraid what Eric was going to think. So this is the part of the record when a person has to have a heart-to-heart chat with themselves in that chair. It’s a very conversational piece.”

SHINEDOWN will embark on a U.S. headlining tour in February. Support on the trek will come from PAPA ROACH and ASKING ALEXANDRIA.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net