The Long Road

The Long Road is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Nickelback, released on September 23, 2003. Recorded at the famed Greenhouse Studios in Vancouver, it is the band's final album with Ryan Vikedal as drummer, and features a notable change in style towards more aggressive guitar riffs and the inclusion of double bass drumming.

The album debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and sold 200,000 copies in its first week of release. The album was quickly certified platinum by the RIAA on October 24, 2003; eventually being certified double-platinum on March 6, 2004. The album was later certified 3× Platinum in the United States on March 10, 2005; having sold 3,591,000 copies as of April 2011. It has sold over five million copies worldwide and was the sixth best-selling album of 2003, having also sold over two million copies internationally. It was later ranked No. 157 on Billboard's 200 Albums of the Decade.