Misery Loves My Company

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"Misery Loves My Company"
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Single by Three Days Grace
from the album Transit of Venus
ReleasedMay 14, 2013
Genre Alternative metal
Length2:42
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Don Gilmore
Three Days Grace singles chronology
"The High Road"
(2013)
"Misery Loves My Company"
(2013)
"Painkiller"
(2014)

"Misery Loves My Company" is a song by Canadian rock band Three Days Grace, from their fourth studio album Transit of Venus released on May 14, 2013. [1] The track became the band's tenth song to reach number-one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in its November 2, 2013, issue. [2] [3] It is the band's eleventh No. 1 single in total. [4] It is the last single to feature Adam Gontier on lead vocals until his return to the band in 2024. [5] [6]

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Critical reception

AXS.com listed "Misery Loves My Company" as one of the "Top 10 best Three Days Grace songs." Patricia Jones of AXS praised singer Adam Gontier's "distinct vocals" and Barry Stock's "crisp guitar solo" on the song. [7]

Music video

The band held a contest for fans to make a music video for the song in which the winner would receive $5,000. [8] [9] The music video was released on September 11, 2013. [10] It was nominated at the 2013 Genero Awards for Video of the Year. [11]

Personnel

Credits for "Misery Loves My Company" adpated from the album's liner notes. [12]

Three Days Grace

Production

Charts

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