"Born for Greatness" was first released on March 31, 2017, in a
lyric video, to promote the then-coming release of
Papa Roach's eighth studio album, Crooked Teeth.[3][4] In April 2017, the song was used as the theme song for the
2017 iteration of
WWEPayback, and was later used as the theme for
Raw, beginning on January 29, 2018 and ending on September 23, 2019.[5] In addition to the studio recording of the song being released on Crooked Teeth on May 19, 2017. Two days after the album's release, the band released a live recording of an alternate version of the song performed at
Rock on the Range with a high school
marching band.[6] A separate, live version of the band performing song by themselves was released on a separate EP entitled Live At
BBC Radio 1 in October 2017.[7] In November 2017, the song was released as Crooked Teeth's third official single,[8] after "
Help" and "
American Dreams", and in December 2017, a full
music video was released, featuring footage of the band performing the song from their 2017 European tour.[9] The song peaked at number one on the BillboardMainstream Rock Songs chart in 2018.[10]
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