Save Me (Shinedown song)

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"Save Me"
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Single by Shinedown
from the album Us and Them
ReleasedAugust 23, 2005 [1]
Length3:33
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Tony Battaglia
Shinedown singles chronology
"Burning Bright"
(2004)		"Save Me"
(2005)		"I Dare You"
(2006)

"Save Me" is a song by American rock band Shinedown. The song was released as the first single in promotion of the band's second studio album, Us and Them . "Save Me" was the theme song for WWE's No Mercy 2005 pay-per-view event, and is their second most commercially successful single to date, reaching number one on the U.S. mainstream rock chart (and remaining there for 12 weeks). It is also Shinedown's third-highest charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind "Second Chance" (number 7) and "If You Only Knew" (number 42), peaking at number 72.

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The foundations of the song date back to the mid-1990s, when the band's singer Brent Smith was just 16 years old and beginning to make demo tracks. [2]

At the time the single was released to radio, the band was still working to complete the album which had not yet been mixed or mastered. According to Smith, "when the first single, 'Save Me', hit the radio, I still hadn't written lyrics for four of the songs nor had sung four others on the album. I was in the studio working my ass off to get finished". [3]

Background

In 2011, singer Brent Smith said, “‘Save Me’ is a song about how people will take on everyone else’s problems and issues. When they put that much pressure on themselves, they’re going to hit a wall eventually. A person in my life saw me go through the darkest times in life. They picked me up. Eventually they had that dark time and I had to pick them up.” [4]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Save Me"3:34

Charts

Chart (2005-06)Peak
position
Canada (Jam!) [5] 67
US Billboard Hot 100 [6] 72
US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [7] 2
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [8] 1

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [9] Gold500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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References

  1. ↑ "FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  2. ↑ Band's first glimmers found in Knoxville
  3. ↑ 411Mania Interview Archived 2012-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Erickson, Anne (February 26, 2011). "INTERVIEW: Shinedown vocalist Brent Smith". Audio Ink Radio. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
  5. ↑ Canadian Singles Chart 2 March 2006 [usurped]
  6. ↑ "Shinedown Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Shinedown Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Shinedown Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
  9. ↑ "American single certifications – Shinedown – Save Me". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved June 23, 2016.


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