"Maybe" is the third single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from Sick Puppies

Sick Puppies

Sick Puppies is an Australian rock band, formed in 1997. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Shimon Moore, bassist Emma Anzai and drummer Mark Goodwin....

' third album Tri-Polar

Tri-Polar (album)

-Tour:Sick Puppies supported Rev Theory and Breaking Benjamin during the end of 2009, and also co-headlined a tour with Hurt, The Veer Union, Adelitas Way and Tunnels to Holland as support acts...

, which impacted rock radio on June 22, 2010

2010 in radio

The following events occurred in radio in 2010.-Events:*Date Unknown: CHOI/Quebec City flips from Alternative Rock to News/Talk.*January 4: KJCS/Lufkin, Texas goes silent....

. A remix version was made for pop radio stations, and the official music video.

The song features a bright sound characteristic of post-grunge

Post-grunge

Post-grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged in the mid-1990s as a derivative of grunge, using the sounds and aesthetic of grunge, but with a more commercially acceptable tone...

.

The song was featured as iTunes

ITunes

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' single of the week on the week of December 18–25, 2010.

Music video

A music video was released on October 12, 2010 on Yahoo music and the official website of Sick Puppies. It shows two people separately moving to a beach town in Southern California to improve their lives, and meeting there. Hey Arnold's Toran Caudell

Toran Caudell

Toran Caudell is a former actor, voice actor, and musician from the United States.He played Rod on 7th Heaven, an American television series about a Protestant minister's family living in the fictional town of Glenoak, California....

 and The Vampire Diaries's Kayla Ewell

Kayla Ewell

Kayla Noelle Ewell is an American actress known for her roles on television as Caitlin Ramirez on CBS's long-running soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, as Maureen Sampson on NBC's acclaimed Freaks and Geeks, and as Vicki Donovan on The CW's The Vampire Diaries.- Early life :Ewell was born in...

 both plays the 2 people who met each other. The video also shows the band playing on a highway. It was directed by Travis Kopach. The performance footage was shot in the Mojave Desert.

Charts

"Maybe" is the most successful single of the band, it was the first song that made it into the Hot 100 peaking at #56, it also peaked at #1 for 5 alternate weeks on the Heatseekers Songs making it their second #1 hit. On the Alternative Songs chart, peaked at #6 surpassing the succes of "All the Same" at this chart. It was also their first single that made it into the Pop Songs chart, as well as their first international charting single.

Chart (2010/2011)	Peak position
Australia ARIA Charts ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	6
Canadian Hot 100 Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...	99
German Airplay Chart	8
German Youth Airplay Chart	4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	56
U.S. Billboard Adult Pop Songs Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Adult Top 40 is a variation on the United States Billboard charts...	8
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	20
U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs	6
U.S. Billboard Rock Songs Rock Songs Rock Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the airplay of songs on alternative, mainstream rock and triple A radio stations. The first chart was published in the issue dated June 20, 2009. "Know Your Enemy" by Green Day was the first number-one song. The Rock Songs...	15
U.S. Billboard Heatseekers Songs Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	27
U.S. Billboard Pop Songs	22
Netherlands Singles Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...	96
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	130