Song · Saint Asonia
“Better Place” by Saint Asonia
From the album Saint Asonia (2015)
“Better Place” by Saint Asonia appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2015. It was first released in 2015 on the album Saint Asonia. Its best result is #23 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2015. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #309 alternative song of 2015.
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"Better Place" was how Saint Asonia, the Canadian-American rock supergroup, introduced themselves: the lead single from their self-titled debut, out on Spotify and iTunes in May 2015. It grew out of a riff Mike Mushok had been sitting on for a long time; Adam Gontier put melodies on top and, as he tells it, that was that. Johnny K produced it for RCA, with Gontier singing lead and playing guitar, Mushok on guitar and backing vocals and Rich Beddoe on drums.
Gontier has said the song is about refusing to let the people around you keep pulling you under after years of it, and about breaking out to somewhere better, something he'd had to do himself over the previous couple of years. It's alternative metal as self-rescue, and it earned a nomination at the 2016 Canadian Radio Music Awards for Best New Group or Solo Artist: Mainstream Rock.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2015 | 89 |
| 2015 | 23 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2015 | 30 |
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