It was released as the lead single on September 1, 2009, from their third studio album, Life Starts Now, which followed three weeks later.

[3] The band released a teaser of the single on their website on August 27, 2009, before the song was sent for radio airplay the following week.

[15] On September 11, Three Days Grace announced the music video for "Break" would debut on Yahoo!

The beginning of the track "Someone Who Cares" serves as both the intro and the outro for the music video version of the song.

As the song progresses, floating paint balls are pulled through the fans and thus travel in a circle that leaves them stained with the color of the band mate to their left (Adam with pink, Neil with white, Brad with black, and Barry with gray).

Several of the effects used in the video include: phantom cams, green screens, polymer, and water-based paint.

Brown who's a really cool director, he does a lot of computer graphics and stuff like that so for this one we kind of wanted to get away from the whole rock video concept and the extras and all that shit so we just kind of sat with him and he brought up this really cool idea of doing just individual performances in these different rooms.