Bridge Burning

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"Bridge Burning"
Foo Fighters - Bridge Burning - cover art.jpg
Single by Foo Fighters
from the album Wasting Light
ReleasedJune 5, 2012
RecordedSeptember 6December 21, 2010 in Dave Grohl's garage
Genre Post-grunge, hard rock
Length4:46
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear
Producer(s) Butch Vig
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"These Days"
(2011)
"Bridge Burning"
(2012)
"Something from Nothing"
(2014)
Music video
"Bridge Burning" on YouTube

"Bridge Burning" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters. It was released as the fifth and final single from their seventh studio album Wasting Light , and as the sixth and final single in the United Kingdom. [1] It is also the first track on the album. On March 16, 2012, the online music magazine Loudwire announced that Foo Fighters would be releasing "Bridge Burning" as a proper radio single. [2] The song appears on the soundtrack to the video game Madden NFL 12 . [3]

Contents

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2011–2012)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [4] 75
Canada Rock ( Billboard ) [5] 1
Hungary (Single Top 40) [6] 6
UK Rock & Metal (OCC) [7] 14
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 22

Year-end charts

Chart (2012)Position
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard) [9] 74

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