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“Your Decision” by Alice In Chains

From the album Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)

“Your Decision” by Alice In Chains appears on 21 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 2009 and 2010. It was first released in 2009 on the album Black Gives Way to Blue. Its best result is #4 on the 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #21 alternative song of 2010 and #84 of the '10s.

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"Your Decision" is Jerry Cantrell's song from Black Gives Way to Blue, the 2009 album that was Alice in Chains' fourth, and he sings lead on it as well as writing it. It went out as the album's second single that November in the UK and in December in the US, and it topped Billboard's Hot Rock Songs and Mainstream Rock charts.

It's a hushed, acoustic-framed ballad, Cantrell and William DuVall's voices twined in harmony over Stevie Blacke's strings, Mike Inez's bass and Sean Kinney's drums, with Nick Raskulinecz producing alongside the band. DuVall has said it's about choices and their consequences, and many fans take it as Cantrell speaking to Layne Staley, the singer he once shared the microphone with, who could never shake his drug addiction and died in 2002.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2009	90	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2009	101
2009	94	CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON	102.1 The Edge The Top 102 of 2009	102
2009	89	X103.9 Riverside-San Bernardino, CA	X103.9 Top Songs of 2009	103
2009	27	94.3 KILO Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO	KILO Top 50 of 2009	50
2009	97	105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO	105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2009	105
2010	38	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2010	91
2010	12	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2010	101
2010	21	CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON	102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2010	102
2010	22	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2010	99
2010	12	94.3 WCYY Portland, ME	WCYY Top 50 of 2010	50
2010	18	89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA	89.7 The River Top 89 of 2010	89
2010	20	90.5 WERG Erie, PA	WERG Top 90 of 2010	90
2010	12	105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO	105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2010	105
2010	41	FM 102/1 Milwaukee, WI	FM 102/1 Top 50 of 2010	50
2010	38	KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA	KSLG Top 94 Slugtunez of 2010	94
2010	5	103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL	Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2010	103
2010	22	94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX	94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010	94
2010	4	94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY	94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2010	91
2010	15	X96 Salt Lake City, UT	X96 Top 50 Songs of 2010	50
2010	62	WBRU Providence, RI	WBRU Top 95 Songs of 2010	95

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2010	99	WJRR	WJRR Top 101 Songs of the Decade	101

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