2008 single by 3 Doors Down
"
It's Not My Time
" is the first official single from the
self-titled
fourth
studio album
by rock band
3 Doors Down
. The song was serviced to US
modern rock
radio on February 18, 2008. Lyrically, the song focuses on "being resilient, going against the grain and going against the world when the world's trying to push you down, or take you out," lead singer
Brad Arnold
said.
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The song topped the US
Billboard
Mainstream Rock Tracks
chart for three weeks. An acoustic version was also available on
iTunes
as a pre-order.
Background
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"It's Not My Time" was originally written for the remake of the film
The Poseidon Adventure
. Brad Arnold explained: "It was gonna be a track on that movie. In the movie, they're just trying to escape their death. And there's a ship sinking. They showed me like a 30-second clip of the movie, and I went and wrote that song from it. And they wound up not wanting it, so I was like, Cool, we'll keep it. And that's actually the second song off a film like that. I wrote "
Let Me Go
" off of
Seventeen Days
for
Spiderman,
and they didn't want it, so we kept it. I'm glad. I had no problem with it."
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Release and chart performance
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The song was officially added to US
modern rock
radio on February 18, 2008.
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By its first official day of release, it was the most-added track at both active- and modern-rock radio stations. The song debuted at number 37 on the
Billboard
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks
chart for the week of March 1, 2008. It went on to top the chart, becoming the band's eighth top-10 single and fifth number-one single on the chart. It debuted at number 38 on the
Billboard
Hot Modern Rock Tracks
chart, eventually peaking at number five. The song peaked at number 17 on the
Billboard
Hot 100
, making it the band's fifth top-20 hit on that chart. The song became their second number one on the
Adult Top 40
, following "
Here Without You
".
In Canada, Finland, and New Zealand, "It's Not My Time" reached the top 20, peaking at number 20 on the
Canadian Hot 100
, number 12 in Finland, and number 18 in New Zealand. It was their third top-40 hit in Australia, peaking at 26. It has also reached the top 40 in Germany.
Music video
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The video was shot in
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
, on April 1, 2008. The shoot was done in
Over-the-Rhine
,
Fountain Square
,
Clifton
and other locations around the city. The
music video
was officially premiered by Universal Republic on April 23, 2008. The beginning sequences were shot on top of the shelter structures, at Bellevue Park, edited to appear as a tall building.
The video begins with a man (Gabriel Nunez of the free-running outfit Team Tempest) standing on the roof of a pavilion in a local park. A scene then shows a mother and her daughter driving in a car. As the clock in the car turns to 10:13 they are hit from the side by a truck. The video then goes back to the man on the rooftop, who looks at his
iPhone
, displaying the time 10:08. When the time turns to 10:09, he immediately begins to run, and jumps off the building, landing safely on the ground.
The video then proceeds to follow the man, as he rapidly traverses on foot through the city, avoiding numerous city obstacles by performing
acrobatic
maneuvers of
parkour
. The man is shown jumping high fences, leaping across city rooftops, hopping over vehicles, somersaulting through an empty pool, among various other stunts. The video also shows the woman and her daughter in the car at several points, where the clock shows the times 10:11, and 10:12. At the end of the video, the man leaps in front of the woman's car right at 10:13, causing the woman to stop, thereby avoiding the fatal accident seen in the beginning. The band is shown throughout the video performing on the rooftop where the man started from. At the end they are seen performing on a skywalk, overlooking where the accident would have happened.
Track listing
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EP version
- "It's Not My Time" ? 4:03
- "Who Are You" ? 3:10
- "It's Not My Time" (acoustic) ? 3:57
Charts
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Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
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Release history
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References
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- ^
a
b
Songfacts.
"It's Not My Time by 3 Doors Down - Songfacts"
.
www.songfacts.com
. Retrieved
September 8,
2019
.
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a
b
"FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock"
.
FMQB
. Archived from
the original
on March 22, 2013
. Retrieved
March 5,
2023
.
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"
3 Doors Down ? It's Not My Time"
.
ARIA Top 50 Singles
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"
3 Doors Down ? It's Not My Time"
(in German).
O3 Austria Top 40
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"3 Doors Down Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"3 Doors Down Chart History (Canada Rock)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"
3 Doors Down: It's Not My Time"
(in Finnish).
Musiikkituottajat
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"
3 Doors Down ? It's Not My Time"
(in German).
GfK Entertainment charts
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"
3 Doors Down ? It's Not My Time"
.
Top 40 Singles
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"
3 Doors Down ? It's Not My Time"
.
Swiss Singles Chart
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"3 Doors Down Chart History (Hot 100)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"3 Doors Down Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"3 Doors Down Chart History (Alternative Airplay)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"3 Doors Down Chart History (Mainstream Rock)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"3 Doors Down Chart History (Pop Songs)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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"ARIA Top 100 Singles for 2008"
. Australian Recording Industry Association
. Retrieved
January 1,
2020
.
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"Canadian Hot 100 ? Year-End 2008"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved
August 13,
2019
.
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"Hot 100 Songs ? Year-End 2008"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved
August 13,
2019
.
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"Adult Pop Songs ? Year-End 2008"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved
September 15,
2019
.
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"American single certifications ? 3 Doors Down ? It's Not My Time"
.
Recording Industry Association of America
. Retrieved
August 1,
2023
.
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"FMQB Airplay Archive: CHR"
.
FMQB
. Archived from
the original
on March 22, 2013
. Retrieved
March 5,
2023
.
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"The ARIA Report: New Releases Singles ? Week Commencing 25th August 2008"
(PDF)
.
ARIA
. August 25, 2008. p. 31. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on October 21, 2008
. Retrieved
March 5,
2023
.
External links
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- Brad Arnold
- Chris Henderson
- Greg Upchurch
- Chet Roberts
- Justin Biltonen
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