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The music industry is always waiting for the freshest tunes, the weirdest-sounding voices and the never before seen charisma as it always thrives for something or someone new. Not that all the existing artists are trash but music somewhat conforms to the how its listeners are---always hungry for more. One of the best ways for fans and haters alike to know who's who on the current music scene is through closely monitoring what US Billboard Hot 100 has for its list. When a group or an act penetrated the charts, it is quite definitive that a lot of people is patronizing it, or should hear it for that matter.
As of current writing, the Charts have been comprised of the usual names on the likes of Drake, The Weeknd, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande and Maroon 5, but there's this band that have caught everyone's attention---Shinedown. Slowly climbing its way to the top, this American hard rock band is making an observable mark on an industry where the modern tunes and the cutesy lyrics sell well, and heck no one's complaining about their approach. Formed in Jacksonville, Florida, Shinedown have been built by musicians Brent Smith, Jasin Todd, Barry Kerch and Brad Stewart in 2001. A decade and a half later, Shinedown have been a mish mash of in and out band members leaving three
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Two more singles have been released digitally to support this fifth LP entitled Black Cadillac and State of My Head, both getting favorable responses from the listening public. Shinedown have been long around the music planet a decade and a half back and it had been said that the fame they are getting right now is just to mature for the talents they possess. Shinedown's tracks have been well used on some of bag shot Hollywood movies such as The Expendables, The Final Destination, Alice in Wonderland and The

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