“How Did You Love” by Shinedown

"How Did You Love" closed out the singles run from Threat to Survival, Shinedown's fifth studio album, arriving in October 2016 as the record's fourth and final single. Brent Smith wrote it with producer Scott Stevens, who mixed it with Chris Baseford. Smith sings lead, with Zach Myers on guitar, Eric Bass on bass, Barry Kerch on drums and Dave Bassett adding guitar and synthesizer.

Smith has said it's about facing up to your own mortality, not to mope about it but to push yourself to live every day fully and without regret, especially in your relationships and in being yourself. The video drew its footage from The Hound of Heaven, a short film, and in early 2017 the song sat at number one on Billboard's mainstream rock chart for four weeks, the band's 11th chart-topper there.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.