Three Days Grace Earns RIAA 4x Platinum for "Life Starts Now"

The Canadian rock band Three Days Grace has received a major certification for their third studio album, Life Starts Now. On November 18, 2025, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album 4x Platinum, recognizing 4,000,000 equivalent units in the United States. Originally released on September 22, 2009, via RCA Records, the album has remained a significant work in the band's catalog and the post-grunge genre.

Life Starts Now continued the band's success following their multi-platinum album One-X. The album features several of the group's number-one hits, including "Break," "The Good Life," and "World So Cold." Thematically, the title track has been interpreted by fans as a narrative of overcoming addiction and starting anew, a recurring theme in the band's emotionally charged music. The album solidified Three Days Grace's position at the forefront of the modern rock scene of the late 2000s.

Since emerging from Norwood, Ontario, Three Days Grace has become a vanguard of hard rock, achieving nineteen #1 records at Mediabase Active Rock and earning multiple nominations at the Juno Awards and iHeartRadio Music Awards. The group maintains a formidable digital presence, with over 7.3 million Spotify followers and more than 17.3 million monthly listeners, making them one of the most streamed rock bands globally. Their extensive reach is further evidenced by over 6.9 billion lifetime streams on Pandora and nearly 4 billion total views on YouTube, underscoring the enduring legacy of albums like Life Starts Now.