
Song · Breaking Benjamin
“I Will Not Bow” by Breaking Benjamin
From the album Dear Agony (2009)
“I Will Not Bow” by Breaking Benjamin appears on 28 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 2009 and 2025. It was first released in 2009 on the album Dear Agony. Its best result is #1 on the KILO Top 50 of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #28 alternative song of 2009, #3,689 alternative song of all time, #271 of the '00s and #231 of the '10s.
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"I Will Not Bow" kicked off the Dear Agony era for Breaking Benjamin as the first single off their fourth album, arriving on August 11, 2009, a day ahead of plan: Wilkes-Barre station 97.9X, in the band's home town, jumped the gun on the St. Louis premiere Hollywood Records had lined up at 105.7 The Point.
David Bendeth produced and mixed, with Benjamin Burnley singing and playing guitar alongside Aaron Fink, Mark James Klepaski on bass and Chad Szeliga on drums; Burnley and Jasen Rauch wrote it. It wasn't written for the movies, but after Burnley sent the label a batch of songs, Disney-owned Hollywood picked it to close out the Bruce Willis film Surrogates, and MLB Network leaned on it hard during the 2010 postseason.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 348 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) | 500 |
| 2015 | 367 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) | 500 |
| 2019 | 322 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2020 | 67 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade | 99 |
| 2023 | 294 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
| 2025 | 95 | 94.1 WJJO | WJJO Frequent Rocker Top 100 Songs of 2025 | 100 |
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