Infra-Red (Three Days Grace song)

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"Infra-Red"
Single by Three Days Grace
from the album Outsider
ReleasedJune 12, 2018 (2018-06-12)
Recorded2017
Genre Hard rock [1]
Length3:50
Label RCA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Three Days Grace singles chronology
"The Mountain"
(2018)		"Infra-Red"
(2018)		"Right Left Wrong"
(2018)
Music video
"Infra-Red" (lyric video) on YouTube

"Infra-Red" is a song by Canadian rock band Three Days Grace. It was the second single from their sixth studio album Outsider . It topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in September 2018. It became the band's fourteenth song to top the chart.

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Background

After releasing "The Mountain" as the first single from their sixth studio album Outsider , the band chose "Infra-Red" as the album's second single. [2] It was released as a single on June 12, 2018. [3] A lyric video was released on July 9, 2018, [4] with the lyrics displayed in a dark warehouse with red tinges of color. [5] In September 2018, the song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, their fourteenth song to do so, [6] surpassing Van Halen for the act with the most number-one songs on the chart since its inception in 1981. [7] While the album version is a full band, electric performance, an acoustic rendition of the song was recorded in April 2018 for Radio.com. [8]

The song was written by Neil Sanderson, Gavin Brown, Barry Stock, Brad Walst, Matt Walst, Dan Kanter and Isiah Steinberg. [9] In 2018, the song won the SOCAN Awards for "No. 1 Song of the Year". [10]

Personnel

Three Days Grace

Production

Charts

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  2. ↑ "Three Days Grace Releases New Single, "Infra-Red"". Alternative Addict. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Rock Future Releases - Rock Music Radio Songs' Release Dates - AllAccess.com". June 11, 2018. Archived from the original on June 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ "THREE DAYS GRACE: Lyric Video For New Single 'Infra-Red'". July 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Three Days Grace premieres "Infra-Red" lyric video - Music News - ABC News Radio". ABC News Radio.
  6. ↑ "Three Days Grace Set Billboard Record With 14th Chart-Topper".
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  8. ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: Three Days Grace Perform "Infra-Red" and "Love Me or Leave Me"". April 26, 2018.
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