Sound of Madness

"Sound of Madness" is a single by American rock band Shinedown from their 2008 album The Sound of Madness and is also the album's title track, despite the exclusion of the word "the" in the song's title. The song was chosen to be the title track after some road testing on a short run of dates.^[3] It was released on February 23, 2009, in Europe.^[4] The song peaked at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, making it their third straight single to reach the top spot on the chart. This made Shinedown the only band to have their first 10 singles all reach the top five on the Mainstream Rock chart. It also reached No. 5 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, making it the band's fourth top ten hit and third top five hit.

"Sound of Madness"
Single by Shinedown
from the album The Sound of Madness
Released	February 23, 2009
Genre	Heavy metal[1] hard rock[2]
Length	3:54
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Brent Smith Dave Bassett
Producer(s)	Rob Cavallo
Shinedown singles chronology
"Second Chance" (2008) "Sound of Madness" (2009) "If You Only Knew" (2009)
Music video
"Sound of Madness" on YouTube

Track listing

UK CD single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sound of Madness" (album version)	3:53
2.	"Call Me" (Warner Germany acoustic session)	6:15
3.	"Sound of Madness" (Warner Germany acoustic session)	4:13

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2009) Peak position Canada Rock (Billboard)[5] 13 UK Physical Singles (OCC)[6] 77 US Billboard Hot 100[7] 85 US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[8] 2 US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[9] 5 US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[10] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2009) Position US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[11] 8

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[12]	Platinum	80,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[13]	Gold	15,000‡
United States (RIAA)[14]	Platinum	1,000,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.