Chart Performance
"Second Chance" is by far, Shinedown's biggest hit to date. It has reached #1 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, Hot Modern Rock Tracks, and Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks charts (their first #1 on this chart), making it the band's first song to top multiple charts. It is only the third song to top all three of those charts, the other two being "One Headlight" by The Wallflowers and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day. On the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at #7, making it not only their first (and, to date, only) top-40 single to date ("I Dare You" was their first Hot 100 single in 2006), but also their first top-10 single. It's also their debut single on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, debuting at #29. On Mainstream Top 40 radio, the song has done exceptionally well for a rock song, peaking within the top three there at #3. It is their first charting single on the Canadian Hot 100 as well, so far peaking at #32.
Overall, "Second Chance" is Shinedown's third of six singles to top the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart to date, having spent 10 weeks at #1 beginning December 27, 2008. On the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, it is their only #1 single to date, having spent three non-consecutive weeks at #1 beginning February 14, 2009.
On March 29, 2009, "Second Chance" debuted at #20 on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown, becoming their first video to ever debut on the show, and on May 16, "Second Chance" hit #1; Smith & Kerch, the guests on the show at the time, introduced it themselves. It was later #1 a second time on June 20.
"Second Chance" is also the band's first and only song to chart internationally, reaching #19 thus far on the Australian ARIA Charts, and #32 on the New Zealand RIANZ charts. It has also charted at #53 on the German Singles Chart. In Austria the song has reached the top twenty at #13.
"Second Chance" is also notable for being the final song the legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem played before signing off the air for the final time.
"Second Chance" was one of the final post-grunge songs to hit the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Since then, the only acts to achieve such success were Nickelback and Daughtry, who both have frequent crossover success, and Breaking Benjamin, whose "I Will Not Bow" barely reached the top 40 on the strength of downloads.
In addition to chart success, "Second Chance" has been certified Platinum by the RIAA – Shinedown's first single to achieve any certification.
"Second Chance" has since been certified 2x platinum by the RIAA.
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