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We Are Not Alone by Breaking Benjamin
We Are Not Alone is an album by Breaking Benjamin, released in 2004. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 37 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “So Cold”, on 26 lists and voted number one once.
We Are Not Alone, Breaking Benjamin's second album, came out on Hollywood Records on June 29, 2004, with David Bendeth producing and a title borrowed from a James Hilton novel. It was the last record from the original Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania lineup: Benjamin Burnley singing and on guitar, Aaron Fink on guitar, Mark James Klepaski on bass and Jeremy Hummel on drums.
The sound is the grinding, brooding heaviness of early Tool poured into post-grunge's friendlier melodic molds, all crunching guitars and angst-soaked choruses that swell to fill the room. "So Cold", "Sooner or Later" and a full-band version of "Rain" were the singles, and "Firefly" ended up on the soundtrack of two WWE video games. It opened with 48,000 copies moved in week one, was the band's first album to carry a Parental Advisory sticker, and went platinum by June 2005.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from We Are Not Alone on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So Cold | 26 | #1 | 1 | 2004–2026 | |
| 2 | Sooner or Later | 9 | #17 | – | 2005–2023 | |
| 3 | Rain | 2 | #91 | – | 2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.