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“Animal I Have Become” by Three Days Grace
From the album One-X (2006)
“Animal I Have Become” by Three Days Grace appears on 23 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2006 and 2025. It was first released in 2006 on the album One-X. Its best result is #1 on The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006, and it was voted number one on two countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #42 alternative song of 2006, #2,010 alternative song of all time and #381 of the '00s.
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"Animal I Have Become" kicked off Three Days Grace's second album, One-X, as its first single in 2006, and it was the first to feature the Canadian band's new fourth member, Barry Stock. Howard Benson produced it and added keyboards, Chris Lord-Alge mixed, and the band wrote it with Gavin Brown. Adam Gontier sings lead and plays guitar over Brad Walst's bass and Neil Sanderson's drums, and it's alt-metal catharsis done right: a thick wall of guitars, a bass line that prowls, and a chorus of pure angst built to be screamed back.
Critics singled out exactly that, the hooks and the angst, and rock radio couldn't get enough, parking it on top of the Mainstream Rock chart for seven weeks and the Modern Rock chart for two. It turned up in the video game WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007, and in March 2026 it passed one billion Spotify streams, the band's second song to get there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 78 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2006 | 107 |
| 2006 | 49 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2006 | 106 |
| 2006 | 31 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2006 | 101 |
| 2006 | 2 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2006 | 89 |
| 2006 | 5 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON | CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2006 | 102 |
| 2006 | 1 | The Bear Ottawa, ON | The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006 | 107 |
| 2006 | 6 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2006 | 97 |
| 2006 | 34 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006 | 106 |
| 2006 | 2 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2006 | 100 |
| 2007 | 95 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2007 | 107 |
| 2007 | 72 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2007 | 106 |
| 2008 | 28 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2008 | 91 |
| 2008 | 70 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2008 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 37 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 Songs of All-Time (2009) | 200 |
| 2010 | 102 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | 102.1 The Edge Top 200 New Rock Songs of the Millennium | 200 |
| 2010 | 56 | 94.1 The Zone | 94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade | 210 |
| 2014 | 116 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) | 500 |
| 2015 | 126 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) | 500 |
| 2019 | 147 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2020 | 122 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
| 2023 | 172 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
| 2025 | 380 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Top 400 of the Last 40 Years (2025) | 400 |
| 2025 | 1 | 94.1 WJJO | WJJO Frequent Rocker Top 100 Songs of 2025 | 100 |
Also listed as: Animal I have Become.
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