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Nickelback "All The Right Reasons" album

- Release date : October 2005 -

All the Right Reasons is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Nickelback, released on October 4, 2005. It is the band's first album with former 3 Doors Down drummer Daniel Adair, who replaced Ryan Vikedal in January 2005. The album topped the Canadian Albums Chart and the American Billboard 200 albums chart and has sold over 19 million copies worldwide, according to certifications from the CRIA, the RIAA and the BPI. Seven singles were released from the album, of which four reached number one or two on the Canadian Singles Chart. The album re-entered the Finland Albums Chart 5 years after its release, setting also a new peak position, at #21.

All the Right Reasons was certified 8x Platinum by the RIAA on October 7, 2009, making it one of the top 200 best-selling albums of all time in the US. In the US, All the Right Reasons had sold 7,378,327 copies. In Canada All the Right Reasons was certified 7x Platinum by the CRIA in March 2010.

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 6.8 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 , 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 2000s to have three top ten hits from the same album Breaking Music News - Music Business Information - Music Industry Sales.

In the UK, the album opened its chart run at #13 before quickly leaving the top 75 with no top 20 singles, with "Savin' Me" being their first to miss the top 75 altogether. While being their smallest-selling UK album since "Curb", it experienced, in early 2008, a resurrection due to the single "Rockstar" becoming Nickelback's highest charting single ever in the UK. The album has now outpeaked its previous peak of #13, reaching #2 and has since been certified Platinum.

It was ranked #13 on Billboard's 200 Albums of the Decade.

In contrast to its high sales, All the Right Reasons received a "mixed to negative score" of 41 based on 9 critics and a 4.2 out of 10 from users on Metacritic, making it the 21st lowest rated album since records on the site began. Despite the mostly negative reviews, Entertainment Weekly explained the album's success this way: "What if Nickelback's decision to let the music speak for itself is, ironically, their biggest selling point of all?"

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"All The Right Reasons" album reviews

On the heels of the release of their big hit single "Photograph," Canadian band Nickelback deliver a strong, commercial album that sticks close to straightforward rock. The relative absence of plodding post-grunge tendencies leaves the band noticeably lighter on their feet. It's a pleasant, if not challenging, listening experience.

--Fast Out of the Blocks--

Nickelback's latest album All the Right Reasons comes charging fast out of the blocks with the solid rock of "Follow You Home" and "Fight For All the Wrong Reasons." The intensity only lets up with the appearance of their massive current hit song "Photograph." The lyrics may be fairly simple, but it's impossible to avoid getting caught up in the atmosphere of nostalgic reverie. Like a kid bullied on the playground one too many times, Nickelback come charging back at their numerous critics, and it sounds good.

--Heavy On Sexual Politics--

This time around group leader Chad Kroeger lyrically focuses a bit less on the legacy left by a poor father and more on intimate sexual politics. This approach works better in some places than others. On "Fight For All the Wrong Reasons" a potent melody underlines his musings on a relationship that is only good in the bedroom. Elsewhere, on "Next Contestant," Kroeger's pounding of men that come on to his woman in the workplace sounds thuggish and, frankly, smarmy instead of valorous.

--A Lighter Touch...and More Hits On the Way--

After some weak moments in the middle of All the Right Reasons (the band's much publicized tribute to Pantera and Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell, "Side Of a Bullet," is disappointing), Nickelback decide to lighten up a bit on the final trio of songs. "If Everyone Cared" is a warm, fuzzy ode to making the world a better place. "Someone That You're With" is a light rocking view of romantic obsession, and on "Rockstar" the band actually show off a too often hidden sense of humor about life at the top of the rock music heap.

Despite the wishes of a legion of critics All the Right Reasons makes a strong argument for lending another ear to Nickelback. The band has clearly grown. They show confidence in their ability to rock, hint at a sense of humor, and again demonstrate their skill at cranking out catchy melodies. Once the deserved success of "Photograph" dies down, look for more hits to come from this album.

*** by Bill Lamb, About.com Guide ***

Those convinced that Nickelback has given us one of the century's greatest rock songs (''How You Remind Me'') will find quite a bit to like on All the Right Reasons. They're exploring a richer, more diverse sound (ripping off both Hoobastank and Seal), and the first single, ''Photograph,'' is a dreamy slice of autumn-weather radio rock that's sure to linger well into winter. Maybe 17 million Nickelback fans really can't be wrong.

*** by Whitney Pastorek, Entertainment Weekly ***

With their fourth album, All the Right Reasons, Nickelback ditches any pretense of being a grunge band and finally acknowledges they're a straight-up heavy rock band. Not that they've left the angst of grunge behind: they're a modern rock band living in a post-grunge world, so there's lots of tortured emotions threaded throughout the 11 songs here. But where their previous albums roiled with anger -- their breakthrough "How You Remind Me" was not affectionate, it was snide and cynical -- there's a surprisingly large sentimental streak running throughout All the Right Reasons, and it's not just limited to heart-on-sleeve power ballads like "Far Away" and "Savin' Me," the latter being the latest entry in their soundalike sweepstakes. No, lead singer/songwriter Chad Kroeger is in a particularly pensive mood here, looking back fondly at his crazy times in high school on "Photograph" ("Look at this photograph/Every time I do it makes me laugh/How did our eyes get so red?/And what the hell is on Joey's head?"), lamenting the murder of Dimebag Darrell on "Side of a Bullet" (where a Dimebag solo is overdubbed), and, most touching of all, imagining "the day when nobody died" on "If Everyone Cared" (which would be brought about "If everyone cared and nobody cried/If everyone loved and nobody lied"). Appropriately enough for an album that finds Kroeger's emotional palette opening up, Nickelback try a few new things here, adding more pianos, keyboards, and acoustic guitars to not just their ballads, but a few of their big, anthemic rockers; they even sound a little bit light and limber on "Someone That You're With," the fastest tune here and a bit of relief after all the heavy guitars. All this makes for a more varied Nickelback album, but it doesn't really change their essence. Sure, they stretch a little bit, but they still favor clumsy, plodding riffs, still incessantly rewrite the same chords and melody, still harmonize exactly the same way on every song, Kroeger still sounds as if he's singing with a hernia, he still writes shockingly stupid lines that make you long for the days of such subtle double-entendres as "she's using her head again" (such as "She'd be pissed if she could see the parts of you that I've been kissing," "It's just a little hard to leave/When you're going down on me" -- and, mind you, this album does not carry a Parental Advisory sticker, even though "a**holes" is prominently used in two songs), and despite the attempted sarcasm of "Rockstar," he still shows no discernible sense of humor. Which means, despite all their newly developed relative nuances, Nickelback remain unchanged: they're still unspeakably awful.

*** by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide ***