"Better Than Me" is the fourth single released from Hinder

Hinder

Hinder is an American rock band from Oklahoma that was formed in 2001 by drummer Cody Hanson, guitarist Joe Garvey, and singer Austin Winkler. The band was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2007.-Formation and early history:...

's debut album, Extreme Behavior

Extreme Behavior

Extreme Behavior is the debut album of rock band Hinder. It was released in 2005 by Universal Records to almost universally negative reviews, before going platinum in September 2006. All songs were co-written by Brian Howes, except for "Shoulda," which was co-written with Brian Howes and Social Code...

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Released by Universal Records

Universal Records

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, this song was #66 on MTV Asia's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.

Charts

It debuted at #97 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 and has peaked at #31, becoming Hinder's second Top 40 hit.

Chart (2006)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	31
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	21
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Airplay	20
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	14
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay	46
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks	10
U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks	16
U.S. Modern Rock Tracks	37
U.S. Hot Digital Songs	39
Australian ARIA Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...  Singles Chart	11
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	16

Chart (End of year chart 2007)	Peak position
Australia Top 100 Album	74

Video

The music video for the song starts with the band playing in a dark room. Then it goes to scenes of a young couple. The young man later buys Methamphetamine from a dealer in a pickup truck. The next scene is of him looking at pictures of them together. He takes a knife and breaks a light bulb, pours the drugs into it, and puts it onto the stove. We then see his violent, painful reaction to the drugs, including seizures and itching all over his body. The girl walks in, sees the drugs, and confronts him. He becomes violent and begins to throw things at her. The lights of the room the band was in are turned on and it is revealed to be a cathedral. The funeral of the young man seen earlier is in progress, and it is clear that he died from an overdose. The girlfriend rushes forward to his casket and puts an envelope into his hands after being stopped by her best friend.

A contest was held on YouTube challenging aspiring directors to create their own video for the song with the reward being the video being shown on television as well as an unpaid job as an assistant on the set of the official video. Ironically, while the winner was not shown on television, most of the entries involved similar subject matter to the official video, with very few entries not revolving around drug addiction and only a few not ending in suicide by overdose.

Critical reception

Billboard magazine called the single "smaller and less bombastic, but [as] equally infectious" as "Lips of an Angel".