Dark Horse (studio album) by Nickelback

Dark Horse by Nickelback
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-11-18
Overall rank: 18,621st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
37/100 (from 113 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (341st)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (3,437th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,621st)
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Nickelback bestography

Dark Horse is ranked 4th best out of 11 albums by Nickelback on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Nickelback is All The Right Reasons which is ranked number 7434 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 169.

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Dark Horse track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 49 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
37/100 (from 113 votes)
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07/03/2025 14:18 fabm0  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,50359/100
 
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06/27/2024 03:56 Lefty21  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 51875/100
 
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04/20/2024 15:59 DommeDamian  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 7,15449/100
 
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01/11/2024 23:50 idiotican  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,80374/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 37.0/100, a mean average of 33.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 33.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 28.6.

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From 05/17/2025 09:19
This album was definitely the peak of Nickelback’s commercial popularity as it was on the US Billboard 200 albums chart for a total of 166 weeks which is much longer than any of the band’s other Mult-Platinum albums (besides All The Right Reasons which was on the US Billboard 200 albums chart for a longer period of time).
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From 03/26/2016 09:38
Got some great songs.
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From 02/15/2015 20:40
This is a horrible album, but I wonder why people complain about misogyny in Nickelback's lyrics. Many hip hop albums are far worse in that category. Let's forget the lyrics and just talk about "Gotta Be Somebody", which is so bad that I must perform maneuvers to try to forget that it actually exists.
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From 11/17/2011 01:40
Chad Kroeger sounds like the most constipated human on Earth.
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From 07/17/2011 04:09
There are songs called Something In Your Mouth and S.E.X. on this album.

Just.. why.
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From 02/15/2011 01:30
Lol@the fact that people actually listen to this album.
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