Dark Horse is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock band Nickelback, released on November 17, 2008, in Europe and a day later elsewhere. It is the follow-up to their multi-platinum selling All the Right Reasons (2005). It was co-produced by the band and Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter Robert John "Mutt" Lange, famous for working with such acts as Foreigner, AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Def Leppard and Shania Twain. Dark Horse sold 326,000 in its first week and debuted at number 2 in the US. More than a year after its release, the album has not left the Top 100 on the Billboard 200. In its 91st week, the album peaked at #46 on the latest issue, on the week of August 28, 2010. On 9 October, the album has since stayed there for 97 consecutive weeks, in the position of #71. The album has spent 125 consecutive weeks inside the Billboard 200. It was ranked #191 on Billboard's 200 Albums of the Decade. It is also the band's fourth straight Multi-Platinum selling album in the U.S. As of 2010 the album has sold 3 million copies in the United States and 5 million copies worldwide. Dark Horse is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock band Nickelback, released on November 17, 2008, in Europe and a day later elsewhere. It is the follow-up to their multi-platinum selling All the Right Reasons (2005). It was co-produced by the band and Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter Robert John "Mutt" Lange, famous for working with such acts as Foreigner, AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Def Leppard and Shania Twain. Dark Horse sold 326,000 in its first week and debuted at number 2 in the US. More than a year after its release, the album has not left the Top 100 on the Billboard 200. In its 91st week, the album peaked at #46 on the latest issue, on the week of August 28, 2010. On 9 October, the album has since stayed there for 97 consecutive weeks, in the position of #71. The album has spent 125 consecutive weeks inside the Billboard 200. It was ranked #191 on Billboard's 200 Albums of the Decade. It is also the band's fourth straight Multi-Platinum selling album in the U.S. As of 2010 the album has sold 3 million copies in the United States and 5 million copies worldwide. false 2025-01-23 10:13:36 Dark Horse 2010 2010-09-13 2010-09-13 87 Alternative Metal Alternative Metal;40;Country Rock;79;137;Pop Rock;Post-Grunge;17 Alternative Rock Country Rock Hard Rock Heavy Metal Pop Rock Post-Grunge Post-Grunge/Alternative Metal Rock 111365 2111413 7b8d4f49-03bf-4542-9596-f22157e7c6f1 bc710bcf-8815-42cf-bad2-3f1d12246aeb 4a62f40e-acce-3938-bdcd-c4ee3003e747 /media/data/media5/Music/Nickelback/Dark Horse/folder.jpg Nickelback Nickelback 1 1 Something in Your Mouth 03:39 1 1 Something in Your Mouth 03:38 1 2 Burn It to the Ground 03:29 1 2 Burn It to the Ground 03:31 1 3 Gotta Be Somebody 04:13 1 3 Gotta Be Somebody 04:13 1 4 I’d Come for You 04:22 1 4 I’d Come for You 04:23 1 5 Next Go Round 03:45 1 5 Next Go Round 03:43 1 6 Just to Get High 04:01 1 6 Just to Get High 04:02 1 7 Never Gonna Be Alone 03:47 1 7 Never Gonna Be Alone 03:47 1 8 Shakin’ Hands 03:39 1 8 Shakin’ Hands 03:40 1 9 S.E.X. 03:55 1 9 S.E.X. 03:54 1 10 If Today Was Your Last Day 04:08 1 10 If Today Was Your Last Day 04:08 1 11 This Afternoon 04:34 1 11 This Afternoon 04:34 Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. It is composed of lead guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, rhythm guitarist/keyboardist/backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair. It went through several drummer changes between 1995 and 2005. The band signed with Roadrunner Records in 1999 and reached a mainstream breakthrough in 2002 with the single "How You Remind Me", which reached number one in the United States and Canada. Its parent album, Silver Side Up, would go on to be certified 8× Platinum in Canada. Nickelback's fourth album, The Long Road, was released in 2003 and spawned five singles, including Canadian number one "Someday", which also reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2005, the band's best-selling album to date, All the Right Reasons, produced three top-10 and five top-20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including "Photograph", "Far Away", and "Rockstar", the latter of which was their biggest success in the United Kingdom. Nickelback released eight singles from their sixth album Dark Horse (2008), including the United States top-10 track "Gotta Be Somebody". In 2011, the seventh album Here and Now topped the charts in Canada. The band has since released No Fixed Address (2014), Feed the Machine (2017), and most recently its 10th album Get Rollin' (2022). Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. In 2009, Billboard ranked it the most successful rock group and the seventh-most successful artist of that decade; "How You Remind Me" was the best-selling rock song and the fourth-best overall. In 2023, Nickelback were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.