Dark Horse
by Nickelback

Dark Horse by Nickelback
Year: 2008
Release date: 2008-11-18
Overall rank: 18,381st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
37/100 (from 116 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2008 (337th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (3,349th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,381st)

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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 8138 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 155.

Nickelback album bestography « Higher ranked (18,381st)
Dark Horse
This album (18,381st)
Dark Horse
Lower ranked (19,373rd) »
The Long Road

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Dark Horse rankings

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Overall rank: 18,381st | 2000s rank: 3,349th | 2008 rank: 337th

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Dark Horse ratings

Average Rating: 
37/100 (from 116 votes)
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06/11/2026 07:48 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,82670/100
 
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05/27/2026 22:35 mrmcrook  Ratings distribution  1,09577/100
 
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06/27/2024 03:56 Lefty21  Ratings distribution  51875/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 37.1/100, a mean average of 34.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 34.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 28.7.

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70/100
From 05/27/2026 22:37 | #314622
An article I'd read in 'Classic Rock' magazine was to do with this and the making of this album. It piqued my interest as it was saying they'd gone with a darker sounding album. I'm not too sure what I was expecting but it doesn't sound far off what their other albums sounds like. There's a couple of tracks with pacey grunt to them but mostly it's that anthemic arena style that they're renowned for. This one would fit into a similar category as commercial sounding Def Leppard.
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From 05/17/2025 09:19 | #309036
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 | #162623
Got some great songs.
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From 02/15/2015 20:40 | #135063
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 | #30692
Chad Kroeger sounds like the most constipated human on Earth.
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From 07/17/2011 04:09 | #24527
There are songs called Something In Your Mouth and S.E.X. on this album.

Just.. why.
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