All the Right Reasons
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All the Right Reasons is the fifth studio album by the Canadian post-grunge/hard rock band Nickelback, released on October 4, 2005. It is the first album without the original drummer Ryan Vikedal and the first to feature his replacement, Daniel Adair. All lyrics were written by Chad Kroeger and all the music is by Nickelback, except for the bonus track "We Will Rock You".
The album was the third straight No. 1 album for the band in their native Canada selling more than 60,000 copies in its first week topping their previous albums Silver Side Up and The Long Road which also hit No. 1, "Silver Side Up" opened with 43,000 copies and "The Long Road" with 45,000 copies. In the United States the album to date has sold over 6.5 million copies and was found again inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in its 99th, 100th, 101st, and 102nd weeks on the chart. The album had never been below #30 on the Billboard 200 in 110 weeks[1], making Nickelback the first act to have an album in the top thirty of the Billboard 200 for its first 100 weeks since Shania Twain's album, "Come on Over" stayed in the top thirty for 123 consecutive weeks following its release. Billboard Magazine called the album "the biggest rock album of the century so far."
In addition the album has spawned five top twenty Hot 100 singles in the U.S.,("Photograph", "Savin' Me", "Far Away", "If Everyone Cared", and "Rockstar"), making it one of only a handful of rock albums to ever produce five or more top twenty U.S. hits. "Photograph", "Far Away", and "Rockstar" were all top ten singles on the Hot 100, making Nickelback the first rock band of the 2000's to have three top ten hits from the same album. [2]
The album was certified 7x Platinum in the U.S. in mid October 2007, surpassing the 6x Platinum certification of Silver Side Up. [3]
Track Listings
- "Follow You Home" – 4:20
- "Fight for All the Wrong Reasons" – 3:44
- "Photograph" – 4:18
- "Animals" – 3:06
- "Savin' Me" – 3:39
- "Far Away" – 3:58
- "Next Contestant" – 3:34
- "Side of a Bullet" – 3:00
- "If Everyone Cared" – 3:38
- "Someone That You're With" – 4:01
- "Rockstar" – 4:15
- "Someday (live)"*
The asterisk (*) indicates a bonus track.
Special edition
The special edition of this album was released on July 10, 2007. It features in 2-Disc set: Exclusive live bonus track, ringtone of Photograph, Nickelback wallpaper plus three unreleased live tracks and one remix version of Photograph. Bonus DVD includes five videos, behind-the-scenes tour diary and interviews.
Special edition track listing
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Singles
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"Photograph"
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"Animals"
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"Far Away"
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| "Savin' Me" |
"Rockstar"
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"If Everyone Cared"
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"Side of a Bullet"
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Chart
| Year | Title | Chart positions[4] | |||||||||
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| U.S. Hot 100 | U.S. Pop | U.S. Modern Rock | U.S. Main Rock | U.S. Hot A/C | CAN | WW | |||||
| 2005 | "Photograph" | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 6 | |||
| 2006 | "Animals" | 97 | – | 16 | 1 | – | – | – | |||
| 2006 | "Far Away" | 8 | 4 | – | – | 5 | 1 | 16 | |||
| 2006 | "Savin' Me" | 19 | 14 | 29 | 11 | 29 | 1 | 20 | |||
| 2006 | "Rockstar" | 6 | 6 | 37 | 4 | – | 13 | 15 | |||
| 2006 | "If Everyone Cared" | 17 | 12 | – | 37 | 17 | 2 | 17 | |||
| 2007 | "Side of a Bullet" | – | – | – | 7 | – | – | – | |||
Album
| Chart (2005/2006) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 | 1 (1) |
| New Zealand Albums Chart | 1 (2) |
| Canada Albums Chart | 1 (4) |
| U.S. Billboard Top Rock Albums | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Modern Rock/Alternative Albums | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums | 1 |
| Top Internet Albums | 1 |
| Australian Albums Chart | 2 |
| Germany Albums Chart | 4 |
| Switzerland Albums Chart | 4 |
| Austria Albums Chart | 7 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Internet Albums | 9 |
| UK Album Chart | 13 |
| Netherlands Albums Chart | 20 |
| Sweden Albums Chart | 22 |
| Italian Albums Chart | 31 |
| Denmark Albums Chart | 32 |
| Finland Albums Chart | 32 |
| Belgium Albums Chart | 35 |
| France Albums Chart | 67 |
| Ireland Albums Chart | 70 |
| United World Chart | 2 (2) |
Worldwide certifications
- USA: 6,513,219 copies (7x Platinum)
- Canada: 600,000 copies (6x Platinum) [4]
- Australia: 280,000 copies (4x Platinum)
- New Zealand: 45,000 copies (3x Platinum)
- Germany: 200,000 copies (Platinum)
- UK: 150,000 copies (Gold)
- Switzerland: 15,000 copies (Gold)
- Worldwide sales: 9,000,000+ copies
Miscellanea
- "Next Contestant" had been performed live several years before the release of this album.
- "Follow You Home" and "Rockstar" feature vocals and guitar from Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.
- "Side of a Bullet" contains lyrics dedicated to Dimebag Darrell and a guitar solo from the Far Beyond Driven era of Dimebag's band, Pantera.
- "We Will Rock You" is a Queen cover and is available exclusively from Wal-Mart (a download voucher was inserted in the packaging for instore sales or the song could be downloaded with complete album download purchase from the Website).
- Wal-Mart also bundled an exclusive DVD, Nickelback - Photo Album, with the album when it was released.
- The car driving down the highway on the cover is a black 1960 Ford Thunderbird.
Achievements
- All the Right Reasons is now Nickelback's best selling album in the US, surpassing Silver Side Up.
- All the Right Reasons was the 3rd biggest-selling album of 2006 in the US with sales during the year topping 2.6 million.
- "Photograph" became the sixth song in the U.S. history to surpass the million download mark, Photograph hit the million download mark after 28 weeks, making it the 2nd fastest climb in digital history.
- The album was the first Nickelback album to top the US Billboard 200 chart, and the third straight Nickelback album to top the Canadian Albums Chart after "Silver Side Up" and "The Long Road", by achieving #1 in the US, All the Right Reasons became the first Roadrunner Records release ever that debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
- All the Right Reasons after spending almost a year in charts, in its 44th week the album returned to the top 10 albums of U.S. and remained there for the next 2 weeks. In its 48th week on the chart, Nickelback's "All the Right Reasons" re-entered the top 10 of U.S. with over 60,000 copies. In its 56th week the album returned in the top 10 albums of the U.S., this time at #9 and with over 49,000 copies. It again re-entered the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in its 67th week on the chart at #10, shifting 35,000 copies, and the next week it rose to #8 selling another 35,000 copies. It re-entered the top 20 of the chart at #12 in its 93rd week, only a little over two months short of two years after its release. The following week (94th) it rose back into the top ten, moving from the 12 spot to #9, selling 43,000 copies, aided by a reissue version of the album released on July 10, 2007. It re-entered the top 10 once again in its 99th week on the charts at #9 selling over 39,000 copies. In its 100th week on the charts it spent its 2nd straight week in the top 10 at #10 selling over 40,000 copies. In its 101st week on the charts it spent its 3rd straight week in the top 10 rising to #8 selling over 38,000 copies. In its 102nd week on the charts it spent its 4th straight week in the top 10 rising to #7 selling over 35,000 copies. Only 5 albums since 1963 have been in the top 10 after their 102nd week, All the Right Reasons is the sixth album to do this.
- In its 60th week the album with an 99% increase sold over 100,000 copies. That was the 12th week the album sold over 100,000 copies.
- The album sold over 100,000 copies in a single week for 14 times since its release.
- All the Right Reasons has in total stayed for 29 weeks in the Top 10 and for 75 weeks in the Top 20 of the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. It stayed also 27 weeks in the Australian Top 10 and 28 weeks in New Zealand in the Top 10.
- All the Right Reasons was able to have week sales over 30,000 for 79 consecutive weeks since the day it was released, it spent 110 consecutive weeks in the top 30.
- With the success of All the Right Reasons, after almost a year and a half, the previous album of Nickelback, The Long Road returned to the Billboard Top 200 Comprehensive Albums of U.S. at No. 197, which means after almost 3 years since its release The Long Road sold over 4,000 copies that week.
- All the Right Reasons became the first Nickelback album to date to have multiple Top Ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ("Photograph", "Far Away" and "Rockstar" have all reached the Top 10). Also All the Right Reasons is the first Nickelback album that has six Hot 100 singles, five of which were top twenty singles.
- All the Right Reasons is the third in a row album of Nickelback which has been certified at least 3x Platinum in the United States. It is also the second album to reach the 6x Platinum status in the U.S. after the 2001 smash of Silver Side Up.
- All the Right Reasons has the most singles from any other Nickelback release. The album released so far 7 singles (Photograph, Animals, Savin' Me, Far Away, Rockstar, If Everyone Cared, and Side of a Bullet), all of which have appeared on multiple charts in the U.S.
- Another record for the album is the number of music videos that have been made (5), Photograph, Far Away, Savin' Me, If Everyone Cared, and Rockstar. [5]
- All the singles of the album have totally sold more than 7 million digital downloads (Photograph "1,815,798", Far Away "1,394,901", Savin' Me "856,403", If Everyone Cared "1,110,819", Rockstar "1,975,401").
- Currently All the Right Reasons is listed as the 30th worldwide best-selling album ever (since the chart was started in 2003, while some albums are listed with cumulative sales since 2002), with sales topping 6,695,000 (+ 7,5 that Mediatraffic not cover =7,197,125, + the over 20 weeks that the album was out from the weekly top 40, proves that the album has sold almost 8 million copies around the globe.
- All the Right Reasons has now produced four Hot AC #1 hits, a success achieved only by Matchbox Twenty, according to Nielsen BDS.
- All the Right Reasons has appeared in the top 40 of the United World Chart for 83 non-consecutive weeks making it the third album to stay in the chart for so long, only Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me" and Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" have stayed more weeks in the top 40, 114 and 92 weeks respectively.
- All the Right Reasons has now produced seven Top 10 hits all of which have charted on multiple charts.
- All the Right Reasons won Nickelback its first American Music Award.
Reaction
Despite selling remarkably well, All The Right Reasons has received a "mixed or average score" of 41 based on 9 critics and a 4.2 out of 10 from users on Metacritic. [5]. Entertainment Weekly wrote the following on September 21st to explain the album's success [6]: