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Phobia by Breaking Benjamin
Phobia is an album by Breaking Benjamin, released in 2006. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 36 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Breath”, on 15 lists and voted number one once.
Phobia, Breaking Benjamin's third album, landed on Hollywood Records on August 8, 2006, recorded at The Barbershop Studios in Hopatcong, New Jersey, with David Bendeth producing. It's the first record with drummer Chad Szeliga, who had taken over from founding drummer Jeremy Hummel in 2005, playing behind Benjamin Burnley, guitarist Aaron Fink and bassist Mark James Klepaski.
Burnley writes the songs and sings them like a man backed into a corner, and Bendeth gives the Wilkes-Barre band a slick, heavy wall of guitars to match: tortured lyrics, choruses that swell to arena size and riffs that crunch on cue. It's hard rock built to a formula and proud of it. "The Diary of Jane" was the calling card, and "Breath" and "Until the End" kept the album on rock radio well into the next year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Phobia on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breath | 15 | #1 | 1 | 2007–2023 | |
| 2 | The Diary of Jane | 19 | #6 | – | 2006–2025 | |
| 3 | Until the End | 2 | #53 | – | 2007 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.