Song · Shinedown
“Atlas Falls” by Shinedown
Released 2020
“Atlas Falls” by Shinedown appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2020. It was first released in 2020. Its best result is #5 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2020. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #13 hard rock song of 2020 and #48 of the '20s.
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Shinedown wrote "Atlas Falls" for Amaryllis, their fourth studio album, in 2012, then left it off the finished record. Frontman Brent Smith, who wrote it with David Hodges, never stopped planning to put it out; the song mattered too much to him to bury for good.
Its moment came on March 24, 2020, when the band released it as a fundraiser for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and the song plus a T-shirt bundle pulled in more than $300,000 in roughly two months. It later went out as a standalone single and sat atop Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart for a week that August: the band's 16th number one there, more than any act had managed since the chart began in 1981. Not bad for an outtake that spent eight years in a drawer.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2020 | 30 |
| 2020 | 12 | 93X Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN | 93X Top 20 Songs of 2020 | 20 |
| 2020 | 51 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2020 | 98 |
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