Song · Shinedown
“The Crow & the Butterfly” by Shinedown
From the album The Sound of Madness (2008)
“The Crow & the Butterfly” by Shinedown appears on 9 radio countdowns from 9 stations in 2010. It was first released in 2008 on the album The Sound of Madness. Its best result is #6 on the 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #61 alternative song of 2010 and #237 of the '10s.
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"The Crow & the Butterfly" comes off Shinedown's 2008 album The Sound of Madness, which sent it out as its fifth single. Brent Smith wrote it with Dave Bassett, and the story behind it is a heavy one: while the band was writing the album, Smith dreamed about a mother who lost her daughter a month before giving birth to her son Trevor, and he built the song around her grief and her struggle to move on. On the band's website he ranked it among the most intense lyrics he had written.
Shinedown first aired it back in 2007, playing it acoustic on The Buckethead Show. Chris Lord-Alge mixed it, and in July 2010 an iTunes EP paired it with a "pull mix," the video and a digital booklet.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 27 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2010 | 101 |
| 2010 | 38 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2010 | 99 |
| 2010 | 42 | 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO | 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2010 | 105 |
| 2010 | 6 | 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX | 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010 | 94 |
| 2010 | 33 | 94.3 WCYY Portland, ME | WCYY Top 50 of 2010 | 50 |
| 2010 | 22 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2010 | 99 |
| 2010 | 48 | FM 102/1 Milwaukee, WI | FM 102/1 Top 50 of 2010 | 50 |
| 2010 | 30 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2010 | 103 |
| 2010 | 8 | 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY | 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2010 | 91 |
Also listed as: The Crow & The Butterfly; The Crow and the Butterfly.
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