Yellowcard – Single “Better Days” Earns First n.1 On Alternative Radio In 22 Years

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BETTER DAYS PRODUCED BY TRAVIS BARKER

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OUT OCTOBER 10, 2025 VIA BETTER NOISE MUSIC

SINGLE “BETTER DAYS” EARNS FIRST NUMBER 1 ON ALTERNATIVE RADIO IN 22 YEARS AFTER AFTER FIRST

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Alt rock favorites Yellowcard are celebrating their first-ever number one record with “Better Days” ending the longest wait for a first leader at the format. “Better Days” is also the title of the band’s first full-length album in almost a decade. This highly anticipated album is produced in full by Travis Barker and will be available on October 10^th.

The single “Better Days” is an unflinching reflection on gratitude, forgiveness, perspective, and purpose. Once ubiquitous on MTV and the Billboard Hot 100, the Vans Warped Tour veterans, whose first two albums produced double-platinum and gold title tracks, sound fully recharged and revitalized in 2025. William Ryan Key, Sean Mackin, Ryan Mendez, and Josh Portman have never sounded stronger.

Violinist Mackin says: “Man it has been a wild and exciting week. After all this time in a band and being away from the band, I just never imagined that we’d ever have a number one song in anything, but it’s official. At the end of the week ‘Better Days’ was number one at Alternative Radio. We have so many people helping us, and believing in us and rooting for us and we hear you, we feel you, we love you, and we are so grateful. Thank you for listening to ‘Better Days’ and our band Yellowcard.”

The band agreed that making a new album was pointless unless it was the best of their career. They refused to rush the process and for the first time gave themselves permission to ask for help. Ryan Mendez invited is long time friend Nick Long in to the writing sessions and it was through Long that Barker became part of the project, coming on board to play drums and produce the whole ablum.

“I started the record as one version of myself and came out the other side changed” says front man Ryan Key who credits Barker with a significant impact on his personal and creative studio breakthroughs “ I went in knowing I needed help. I came out of it writing songs like I was 19 again.”

Formed in Jacksonville FL in 1997 Yellowcard became one of the most influential bands in the 2000’s alternative rock scene known for blending high energy pop punk with a signature violin twist. Their 2003 breakthrough Ocean Avenue is certified Platinum with the title track bring 2 times platinum. With over 4 million albums sold worldwide and over 1 billion streams the band is poised for continued success on this new endeavor. After disbanding in 2017 Yellowcard reunited in 2022 entering into a new creative era and a year packed with a global tour to support it.

BETTER DAYS TRACK LIST

1. Better Days

2. Take What You Want

3. Love Letters Lost (feat. Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio)

4. honestly i

5. You Broke Me Too (feat. Avril Lavigne)

6. City of Angels

7. Bedroom Posters

8. Skin Scraped

9. Barely Alive

10. Big Blue Eyes

About Yellowcard

Yellowcard meant it when they said goodbye. The lights dimmed on one of the most beloved pop-punk and alt-rock bands of the 2000s with intention and authenticity. Wrapping things up with a farewell tour, Yellowcard exited the “right” way, with grace, appreciation, and finality.

But the story wasn’t complete. Legacy cracked the door. Healing blew it wide open. Riding a resurgence that saw the global Ocean Avenue 20^th anniversary tour featured in Forbes and a reconciliation that put all four members at peace with their legacy and each other, Yellowcard just made the most ambitious and emotionally resonant record of their career. Better Days, the band’s first album in nearly a decade, was produced by blink-182’s Travis Barker, who also played drums on every track.

Their first release with powerhouse label Better Noise Music, Better Days is Yellow card’s testimony that healing is a process, growth is nonlinear, and sometimes the best chapter opens after the supposed ending. This isn’t just a return. It’s a reckoning. And this time, Yellowcard is ready.

Yellowcard is:

William Ryan Key – Vocals
Sean Mackin – Violin
Ryan Mendez – Guitar
Josh Portman – Bass

SELECT DISCOGRAPHY

Better Days (2025)
Childhood Eyes EP (2023)
Yellowcard (2016)
Lift a Sail (2014)
Southern Air (2012)
When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes (2011)
Paper Walls (2007)
Lights and Sounds (2006)
Ocean Avenue (2003)

About Better Noise Music:

BETTER NOISE MUSIC, the artist development company, is the premiere independent Record Label under BETTER NOISE ENTERTAINMENT, a content creation, and marketing company that produces music, books, films, documentaries, TV shows, theatrical productions, and tours. Better Noise Music founded in 2006 by music industry veteran and independent pioneer Allen Kovac, focuses on artist development and has grown into a music industry independent powerhouse, with a roster including Five Finger Death Punch, Yellowcard, Sabaton, Bad Wolves, Dirty Heads, The Rasmus, NOTHING MORE, The HU, From Ashes To New, Cory Marks, Eva Under Fire and The Funeral Portrait. The company operates a global marketing and distribution platform with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, Austin, Miami, London, Berlin, Toronto, and Sydney. The label was named Billboard’s #1 Mainstream Rock Airplay Label and #1 Mainstream Rock Airplay Imprint of 2024, after its history-making run of 5 consecutive years as the #1 Mainstream Rock Airplay Imprint (2018-2022).

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