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IV by Godsmack
IV is an album by Godsmack, released in 2006. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 11 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Speak”, on 6 lists with a best position of #6.
IV, Godsmack's fifth studio album, hit stores on Universal Republic on April 25, 2006, and it's the record where the Lawrence, Massachusetts band loosened its grip on metal and went digging for the blues-rock underneath. That was the point of bringing in Andy Johns, the engineer behind Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" and "Stairway to Heaven" and records by the Rolling Stones and Van Halen, to co-produce with Sully Erna. For once there was no tour or deadline hanging over them at Spiral Recording Studio in Los Angeles: they wrote 35 songs, cut 17 and kept the best.
Erna called it his most honest set of lyrics, less about pointing fingers and more about facing the dark stretches of life and climbing out. Tony Rombola's guitar swaggers and grinds, Robbie Merrill and Shannon Larkin lay down a pile-driver groove, and "Speak", "The Enemy", "Shine Down" and "Hollow" do the heavy lifting. It went to number one on the Billboard 200, right between Faceless and The Oracle.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from IV on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speak | 6 | #6 | – | 2006–2025 | |
| 2 | The Enemy | 3 | #30 | – | 2006–2007 | |
| 3 | Shine Down | 1 | #10 | – | 2006 | |
| 4 | Hollow | 1 | #87 | – | 2006 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.