Song · Nine Inch Nails
“The Beginning of the End” by Nine Inch Nails
From the album Year Zero (2007)
“The Beginning of the End” by Nine Inch Nails appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2007. It was first released in 2007 on the album Year Zero. Its best result is #101 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #568 alternative song of 2007.
"The Beginning of the End" is one of Trent Reznor's dispatches from Year Zero, the fifth Nine Inch Nails studio album, which Interscope released in April 2007: a concept record that trades the band's old inward gaze for a dystopian vision of America in 2022, taking aim at the government policies of the day. Reznor wrote it, words and music, sings it, and produced it with Atticus Ross.
Year Zero was the first Nine Inch Nails studio album since The Downward Spiral in 1994 made without longtime collaborator Alan Moulder as co-producer, but Moulder still mixed this track and helped record it alongside Reznor, Ross, Brett Bachemin, Alan Mason and Doug Trantow. The album grew into a whole world, with a remix album and an alternate reality game spilling its story across websites, phone messages and murals.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
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Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 101 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2007 | 107 |
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