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“What If I Was Nothing” by All That Remains
From the album A War You Cannot Win (2012)
“What If I Was Nothing” by All That Remains appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2013. It was first released in 2012 on the album A War You Cannot Win. Its best result is #9 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2013. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #9 hard rock song of 2013 and #274 of the '10s.
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"What If I Was Nothing" is the power ballad on All That Remains' sixth album, A War You Cannot Win, from 2012, and the American heavy metal band sent it out as a single in September 2013, with a video posted to YouTube that October. Phil Labonte wrote the words and shares the music credit with Mike Martin, Oli Herbert, Jason Costa and Rob Graves, and Martin had a big hand in shaping it.
It didn't come easy for Labonte. Talking to Loudwire, he recalled cutting the vocal with Adam Dutkiewicz and finding it a real fight: he's built for screaming and hollering in key, not for soft, tender singing, and he likened the job to making a machete work like a scalpel. It reached number two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 3 on Modern Rock Tracks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2013 | 30 |
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