3 Doors Down Earns Its First No. 1 On One Billboard Chart After Years Of Trying

Doors Down’s “Kryptonite” surges to No. 1 on the Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart and reenters multiple hard rock charts after Brad Arnold’s passing.

Brad Arnold, 3 Doors Down 'Kryptonite' Singer, Dies at 47, Months After Kidney Cancer Diagnosis

Arnold wrote the band's 2000 breakout hit in high school algebra class ...
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The 50 Worst Songs of the ’00s, F2K No. 42: 3 Doors Down, “Kryptonite”

And the award for most harrowingly extended metaphor goes to… 3 Doors Down! This band predated, yet somehow out-awfuled, the faux-emo sad-bastard macho chest thumps of Puddle Of Mudd, Stone Sour, ...

Brad Arnold, who wrote hit song ‘Kryptonite,’ dies at 47

Brad Arnold, the lead singer and founding member of rock band 3 Doors Down, died following a battle with cancer.