'' is the fifth Studio Album by the Canadian 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 has sold nealry 6,000,000 copies and was found again inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in both its 99th and 100th week.
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. {Link without Title}
# "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
- ) indicates a bonus track.
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.
;Disc one
# "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
# "Photograph" (Remix)
# "Animals" (Live)
# "Follow You Home" (Live)
# " Never Again " (Live)
;DVD (Disc 2)
#''Photograph'' (Music video)
#''Savin' Me'' (Music video)
#''Far Away'' (Music video)
#''If Everyone Cared'' (Music video)
#''Rockstar'' (Music video)
- Behind-the-scences tour diary
- Interviews
- USA: 5,856,682 copies (6x Platinum)
- Canada: 500,000 copies (5x Platinum) {Link without Title}
- Australia: 280,000 copies (4x Platinum)
- New Zealand: 45,000 copies (3x Platinum)
- Germany: 200,000 copies (Platinum)
- UK: 100,000 copies (Gold)
- Switzerland: 15,000 copies (Gold)
- "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 .
- ''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. Only 5 albums since 1963 have been in the top 10 after their 100th 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 27 weeks in the Top 10 and for 73 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 30k for 79 consecutive weeks since the day it was released, after 100 weeks on the chart the album still haven't got outside the top 30, its lowest position on the chart is No. 29.
- 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. {Link without Title}
- All the singles of the album have totally sold more than 5 million digital downloads (Photograph "1,468,379", Far Away "1,019,086", Savin' Me "856,403", If Everyone Cared "753,534", Rockstar "959,156").
- 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 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 .
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