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“So Cold” by Breaking Benjamin

From the album We Are Not Alone (2004)

“So Cold” by Breaking Benjamin appears on 26 radio countdowns from 21 stations between 2004 and 2026. It was first released in 2004 on the album We Are Not Alone. Its best result is #1 on the CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #52 alternative song of 2004, #2,452 alternative song of all time and #320 of the '00s.

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"So Cold" was the lead single from Breaking Benjamin's second album, We Are Not Alone, in 2004, and it sounds like exactly where Benjamin Burnley wrote it. He was alone in New York around 2003, holed up in a Manhattan hotel in the dead of winter, cut off from everyone and in a dark frame of mind, with the film 28 Days Later on his brain. The song is all chilly, clenched verses and a chorus that cracks wide open.

David Bendeth produced and arranged it and added keyboards, Rich Costey mixed, and Burnley, Aaron Fink, Mark James Klepaski and Jeremy Hummel wrote it together. It never reached number one on the Mainstream Rock chart, yet no song has stayed on it longer: 62 weeks. It was certified Platinum in 2015, and a reimagined version followed in 2019.

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

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Hard Rock & Metal

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2004 77 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2004 107
2004 88 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004 106
2004 71 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 34 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2004 100
2004 42 K-Rock New York, NY K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2004 93
2004 8 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON 89X Top 89 Songs of 2004 89
2004 13 Y100 Philadelphia, PA Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2004 99
2004 1 CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC CHOI Top 98 Songs of 2004 98
2004 4 WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2004 106
2004 21 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Essential 99 of 2004 99
2004 45 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2004 50
2004 20 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004 100
2004 24 WIRS 107.9 College station WIRS Top 107 Songs of 2004 107
2005 19 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2005 100
2005 44 ModernRock.com Online ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 400

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2010 21 WJRR WJRR Top 101 Songs of the Decade 101
2010 157 94.1 The Zone 94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade 210
2013 176 KBPI KBPI Top 200 Songs of All Time 200
2014 74 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) 500
2015 79 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) 500
2019 183 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2020 329 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2022 485 101X 101X 500 (2022) 498
2023 203 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500
2025 15 94.1 WJJO WJJO Frequent Rocker Top 100 Songs of 2025 100
2026 473 101X 101X 500 (2026) 500

Charting alongside it in 2004

Best songs of 2004 →
  1. 1Somebody Told MeThe Killers
  2. 2American IdiotGreen Day
  3. 3Float OnModest Mouse
  4. 4Take Me OutFranz Ferdinand
  5. 5VertigoU2
  6. 6MegalomaniacIncubus

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