Song · Papa Roach
“Born for Greatness” by Papa Roach
From the album Crooked Teeth (2017)
“Born for Greatness” by Papa Roach appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2017 and 2019. It was first released in 2017 on the album Crooked Teeth. Its best result is #20 on the 98KUPD Top 98 of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #126 hard rock song of 2017 and #103 of the '10s.
Watch
Video from YouTube (Better Noise Music). Pressing play loads YouTube's player. Watch on YouTube
Papa Roach first floated "Born for Greatness" as a lyric video on March 31, 2017, a teaser for Crooked Teeth, their eighth album, which followed on May 19. Tobin Esperance, Jerry Horton and Jacoby Shaddix share the writing credit with Jason Evigan. It became the record's third single and topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2018.
Wrestling fans got to know it well. WWE made it the theme for Payback in April 2017, then ran it as the theme for Raw from January 29, 2018 until September 23, 2019. The band kept reworking it, too: two days after the album came out they issued a live take from Rock on the Range backed by a high school marching band, and a version by the band alone landed on the Live at BBC Radio 1 EP that October.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 30 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2017 | 30 |
| 2017 | 81 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
| 2018 | 20 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2018 | 98 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 63 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
Also listed as: Born For Greatness.
Comments
Log in or create a free account to join the conversation about "Born for Greatness" by Papa Roach.
No comments yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.