Life Starts Now

Life Starts Now is the third studio album by the Canadian rock band Three Days Grace. The album was released on September 22, 2009. It was produced by Howard Benson. It was the second time in a row that the band has worked with him, after the commercially successful One-X. Life Starts Now expresses a lighter lyrical mood compared to the previous album. It is the first Three Days Grace album to be released by Sony Music Entertainment and the last to be released by Jive Records, as Sony disbanded the label in 2011.

The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, selling 79,000 copies in the US in its first week, thus becoming the band's highest-charting album in the US to date. The album also debuted on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart at number two. In Canada, the album peaked at number two, selling 14,000 copies in its first week. The album's lead single "Break" peaked at number 26 on the Canadian Hot 100, as well as number one on the Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. "The Good Life" at number 52 on the Canadian Hot 100 and number one on Billboard Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. With the exception of "Lost in You", all of the band's singles from the album topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. As of July 2010, the album had sold 398,826 units in the US.