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Beauty from Pain

album by Superchick

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4877942 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beauty from Pain is the third album released by the band Superchick. This is the first CD the band has released with an official drummer, Brandon Estelle. Christian rapper and hip-hop singer tobyMac appears in the song "Stories (Down to the Bottom)", which is also heard on his album Welcome to Diverse City.

Release

To promote Beauty from Pain, the band released "Stand in the Rain" as their first single. It was released as a radio single that year, and stayed at number 1 on R&R's Christian CHR chart for 13 consecutive weeks beginning in October 2006. It was the 18th most played song on United States CHR radio stations in 2007. The instrumental was used in the trailer for Season 5 part 2 of MTV's The Hills. "Stand in the Rain" is a downloadable song for the video game Rock Band 2. The song was included on WOW Hits 2008.

The second single, "We Live", features the vocals of Tricia Brock, Melissa Brock and Matt Dally.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Beauty from Pain” as album by Superchick. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. The account is most persuasive where Beauty, Pain and album can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Superchick. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4877942. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beauty from Pain” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.