Drummer Ryan Vikedal fired

After wrapping up the band’s tour in support of The Long Road on New Year’s Day 2005, drummer Ryan Vikedal was fired after a royalty dispute. He was later replaced by 3 Doors Down ‘s drummer Daniel Adair . Kroeger later sued Vikedal to prevent him receiving any further royalties from Nickelback’s music, though the lawsuit was later settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Nickelback promptly went into the studio with their new drummer from January through May 2005. The sessions resulted in their fifth studio album, All the Right Reasons which was released on October 3, 2005. It peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 with 323,350 copies in its first week in the United States, as well as producing five U.S. Hot 100 top 20 singles: ” Photograph “, ” Savin’ Me “, ” Far Away “, ” If Everyone Cared ” and ” Rockstar “. Three of these became U.S. Hot 100 top 10 singles. Also, the album peaked at number one on the Canadian albums chart. The album sold more than 12 million singles and over 9 million ringtones. The album also made Nickelback the first band in Nielsen BDS history to have five singles on the CHR charts. It included appearances by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top , who played a guitar solo on the song “Follow You Home” and sang backing vocals on “Rockstar”—and a posthumously sampled appearance by Chad Kroeger’s friend Dimebag Darrell from Pantera , culled from guitar outtakes. All the Right Reasons had sold over 7 million copies in the U.S. to June 19, 2010.