Song · I Prevail
“Breaking Down” by I Prevail
From the album TRAUMA (2019)
“Breaking Down” by I Prevail appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2019. It was first released in 2019 on the album TRAUMA. Its best result is #1 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #167 alternative song of 2019.
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"Breaking Down" was the second single I Prevail pulled from Trauma, their second studio album, dropped in 2019 within twelve hours of "Bow Down" and a month before the record itself. It's the band turning the camera on themselves: the fame they had worked so hard for, and the depression and mental-health toll that came with it. The backstory is rough. After the "Blank Space" cover and their first album, Lifelines, finally broke them, a doctor found a polyp on Brian Burkheiser's vocal cords that needed surgery.
Tyler Smyth produced and recorded it and shares the writing with Burkheiser, Eric Vanlerberghe, Steve Menoian and David Pramik. The video coats Burkheiser in black sludge as a picture of depression, and the song went on to reach 3 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart that July.
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
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2019 | 30 |
| 2019 | 31 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2019 | 88 |
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