"The Good Life" is a song and the second single from Three Days Grace

Three Days Grace

Three Days Grace is a Canadian rock band, formed in Norwood, Ontario, Canada in 1992, originally under the name Groundswell. After a breakup in late 1997, the band regrouped in the same year under its current name and with a line-up consisting of guitarist and lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer...

's 2009 album Life Starts Now

Life Starts Now

Life Starts Now is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Three Days Grace. The album was released on September 22, 2009. The album was produced by Howard Benson. This is the second time in a row the band has worked with him, after the commercially successful One-X...

. It was released for radio airplay on February 9, 2010. It charted at #85 on the Canadian Hot 100 before becoming a single. The song also was featured on ESPN

ESPN

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's Winter X Games XIV

Winter X Games XIV

Winter X Games XIV were held from January 28 to January 31, 2010, in Aspen, Colorado. They were the 9th consecutive Winter X Games to be held in Aspen...

, and was used during the Professional Motocross Freestyle show Nuclear Cowboyz. "The Good Life" was the featured song for the 2010 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament

2010 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament

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, and also during the 2010 NFL Draft

2010 NFL Draft

The 2010 NFL Draft was the 75th annual meeting of National Football League franchises to select newly eligible football players. Unlike previous years, the 2010 draft took place over three days, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, with the first round on Thursday, April 22, 2010, at 7:30 pm...

. The song was also performed during a concert of Three Days Grace along series of concerts during the 2010 Winter Olympics

2010 Winter Olympics

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 in Vancouver

Vancouver

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 on February 15, 2010.

Music video

The band shot the video with director Michael Maxxis on March 23, 2010. Pictures of the shoot are up on their Twitter. It breaks the pattern of using track 2, 3 and 4 of each Three Days Grace album as singles. On April 27, 2010, a trailer of the video was released. A day later, the video was released. The video consists of the band performing in a garage, with Adam Gontier wearing a Citizen Cope outfit, with cuts to clips of people performing activities, both recreational and with violent overtones. The video ends with a man kissing his wife and leaving for work. In contrast to the clean and professionally shot look of previous music video for "Break

Break (song)

"Break" is the first single from Three Days Grace's third album, Life Starts Now. The single was released on September 1, 2009 at 6:45 pm EST for radio play as well as on -Release and chart performance:...

", this video is filmed with a hand held camera in a messy, real world environment and makes heavy use of video editing effects and colour grading to look rough and visually vibrant. If one can look very closely, they can see the words "THE BIG LIE EXPOSED!".

Accolades

Publication	Country	Accolade	Year	Rank
AOL Radio AOL Radio AOL Radio powered by Slacker, , is an online radio service available only in the United States.- Roots :...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	"Top Alternative Songs of 2009"	2009	1

Charts

Charts	Peak position
Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...	1
Billboard Alternative Songs	4
Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
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...	1
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...	52

See also

• List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States)
• List of Rock Songs number-one singles (U.S.)