Song · Shinedown
“Monsters” by Shinedown
From the album ATTENTION ATTENTION (2018)
“Monsters” by Shinedown appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2019 and 2025. It was first released in 2018 on the album ATTENTION ATTENTION. Its best result is #1 on the WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2019. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #1 hard rock song of 2019 and #53 of the '10s.
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"Monsters" comes from Attention Attention, Shinedown's sixth album, released on Atlantic in 2018, and it went out as the record's third single in March 2019, following "Devil" and "Get Up". Brent Smith sings it and wrote it with Eric Bass, who plays bass and acoustic guitar on it and also produced, engineered and mixed the track; Zach Myers adds guitar and piano, and Barry Kerch is on drums.
It went all the way to number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, the band's 14th chart-topper there, leaving only one act ahead of them on that chart's all-time tally. It also picked up a nomination for iHeartRadio's rock song of the year. The band had teased a video as far back as July 2018; an animated clip finally followed in July 2019.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2019 | 30 |
| 2019 | 1 | 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA | WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2019 | 25 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 90 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
| 2025 | 56 | 94.1 WJJO | WJJO Frequent Rocker Top 100 Songs of 2025 | 100 |
Also listed as: MONSTERS.
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