Singles

Chances are if you turn on MTV, you won’t find Shinedown (or any real music these days). Shinedown has reached out to fans through radio. Shinedown has released a total of 7 singles. "Fly From The Inside", "45", "Simple Man" (Lynard Skynard cover) and “Burning Bright” were all released off their debut platinum selling album "Leave a Whisper". "Save Me", "I Dare You" and “Heroes” were released off their sophomore album “Us and Them”. “Us and Them” has been certified a gold record. Chris Daughtry sang “I Dare You” on American Idol.” All 7 singles have made it into the top 5 of the mainstream rock charts. “Save Me” was number 1 for an entire two months during the summer of 2006. “Devour” is there first single off of “The Sound of Madness”. “Devour will come out May 6th. 2008, The Sound of Madness will hit stores June 24th. 2008.

 

Shinedown hasn’t gotten to the top of the rock charts without criticism. The music video for "45" was banned from MTV because Shinedown refused to change the words of the chorus.

 

Brent Smith stated, "They sent a treatment over, and this was how it went: 'And I’m [long pause], swimming through the [long pause],' and I said, 'No. That’s retarded.’ I just said, 'You don't want to play it because of the words; don’t play it, I don't care.' At that time, I had a hard time with the company, meaning the network, about that, because I said, 'If you can show,' –- and this has nothing to do with my feelings toward Rap music, Hip/Hop, R&B, things like that; but it seems like those individuals and those artists could get away with whatever they wanted to, but I'm sitting here talking about a subject matter that I felt needed to be heard, and they were like, 'It’s too literal, you're being too blunt about it –- and I said, 'Jay-Z has 99 problems and you don't have a problem showing him getting shot on your network, I don't see why you have a problem with me saying I'm staring down the barrel of a 45, even though the fact is I'm not even talking about an actual gun."