STAIND
www.staind.com/
It's Been Awhile" is the title of a song by American alternative metal band Staind. It was released in April 2001 as the lead single from their album, Break the Cycle.
The song is probably the band's best-known song, becoming a number 5 hit on theBillboard Hot 100,[2] their only song to reach the pop Top 10. The song spent a second-best 20 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart[2] (behind only "Loser" by 3 Doors Down) and a then-record 16 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart,[2] beaten in 2007 by Foo Fighters with "The Pretender". The song is stylistically different from the other tracks on the album, which are nu metal/alternative metal songs and is considered by many critics and fans to be the first sign of Staind's transition from a nu metal to post-grunge band which would evolve on the band's next three albums.
