| Artist: | Theory of a Deadman |
| Studio: | 8 |
| Ep: | 1 |
| Singles: | 38 |
| Music Videos: | 27 |
The Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman has released eight studio albums, one extended play (EP), thirty-seven singles, and twenty-six music videos. The band was formed in 1999 in Delta, British Columbia, by Tyler Connolly (lead vocals and guitars), Dave Brenner (guitar), Dean Back (bass), and former member Tim Hart (drums).[1] They had been through multiple drummers before recruiting current member Joey Dandeneau in 2009.[2]
Nickelback's Chad Kroeger signed the group to his record label, 604 Records, in 2001 after Connolly gave Kroeger's ex-girlfriend a copy of their demo,[3] and the following year, Theory of a Deadman released their eponymous debut album. The record was certified platinum by Music Canada (MC; formerly known as the Canadian Recording Industry Association)[4] and peaked at numbers four and eighty-five on the Billboard Canadian Albums and US Billboard 200 charts, respectively.[5] [6] Their next album, Gasoline, was released in 2005.[7]
In 2008, the band released their third studio album, Scars & Souvenirs, which spawned several successful singles, including "Not Meant to Be", "Bad Girlfriend", "All or Nothing", and "Hate My Life". Three of these songs were on the Billboard Hot 100 and have been the only singles to be seen on this particular chart.[8] The album was certified platinum by both MC and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),[4] [9] and was on the Billboard 200 chart for 110 weeks, peaking at number twenty-six.[10] It also won the Western Canadian Music Award for "Rock Recording of the Year" in 2009.[11]
Subsequent albums The Truth Is... (2011) and Savages (2014) both peaked on the Billboard 200 at number eight and appeared on the UK Albums chart, reaching numbers 68 and 41, respectively.[12] [13] [14] The band recorded their first EP, Angel Acoustic EP, in 2015. Wake Up Call was released in October 2017 with the lead single, "Rx (Medicate)" (a song addressing the opioid epidemic in Canada and the United States), reaching number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and earning a "No. 1 Song Award" from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN).[15]
The band released their thirty-seventh single "History of Violence" in 2019, and announced a release date of January 31, 2020, for their seventh studio album Say Nothing.[16]
| Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [17] | US [18] | US Rock [19] | US Alt [20] | UK | |||||
| Theory of a Deadman |
| 4 | 85 | — | — | — |
Platinum | ||
| Gasoline | 10 | 58 | — | — | — |
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| Scars & Souvenirs | 2 | 26 | 6 | 5 | — |
2× Platinum | |||
| The Truth Is... | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 68 |
Gold | |||
| Savages | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 41 | ||||
| Wake Up Call | 13 | 24 | 5 | 4 | — |
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| Say Nothing | 51 | 116 | 14 | 5 | — | ||||
| Dinosaur | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||
| Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [36] | CAN Rock [37] | US | US Alt [38] | US Main [39] | US Rock [40] | US Hard Rock Digi. | UK [41] | |||||
| "Nothing Could Come Between Us" | 2002 | 2 | — | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | Theory of a Deadman | ||
| "Make Up Your Mind" | 2003 | 13 | — | — | 38 | 13 | — | — | — | |||
| "No Surprise" | 2005 | — | 1 | — | 24 | 8 | — | — | — | Gasoline | ||
| "Say Goodbye" | — | — | — | — | 22 | — | — | — | ||||
| "Santa Monica" | 17 | 3 | — | — | 27 | — | — | — |
2× Platinum | |||
| "Hello Lonely (Walk Away from This)" | — | — | — | — | 30 | — | — | — | ||||
| "Better Off" | 86 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "So Happy" | 2008 | 58 | 4 | — | 17 | 2 | — | — | — | Scars & Souvenirs | ||
| "Bad Girlfriend" | 42 | 3 | 75 | 8 | 1 | — | 6 | — |
3× Platinum | |||
| "All or Nothing" | 22 | — | 99 | — | — | — | — | — |
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| "Hate My Life" | 65 | 8 | — | 22 | 3 | 26 | — | 92 |
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| "Not Meant to Be" | 53 | 18 | 55 | — | — | — | — | — |
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| "By the Way" | 2009 | — | 17 | — | — | 16 | 34 | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. | ||||||||||||
| Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN [42] | CAN Rock [43] | US | US Alt | US Main | US Rock | US Hard Rock Digi. | ||||||
| "Little Smirk" | 2010 | — | 9 | — | — | 15 | 33 | — | Scars & Souvenirs | |||
| "Lowlife" | 2011 | 55 | 6 | — | 25 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| The Truth Is... | ||
| "Bitch Came Back" | — | 50 | — | 40 | 14 | 30 | 4 |
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| "Hurricane" | 2012 | — | 11 | — | — | 5 | 22 | 3 | ||||
| "Gentleman" | — | — | — | — | 27 | — | — | |||||
| "Drown" | 2014 | — | 7 | — | — | 4 | 43 | — | Savages | |||
| "Savages" | — | — | — | — | 25 | — | — | |||||
| "Angel" | 2015 | — | 33 | — | — | 2 | 29 | — |
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| "Blow" | — | — | — | — | 12 | — | — | |||||
| "Rx (Medicate)" | 2017 | 86 | 4 | — | 28 | 1 | 4 | — |
| Wake Up Call | ||
| "Straight Jacket" | 2018 | — | 33 | — | — | 12 | — | — | ||||
| "History of Violence" | 2019 | — | 15 | — | — | 1 | 15 | — | Say Nothing | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. | ||||||||||||
| Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN Rock | US Main | US Hard Rock | ||||||||||
| "World Keeps Spinning" | 2020 | 30 | 13 | — | Say Nothing | |||||||
| "Strangers" | — | 20 | — | |||||||||
| "Dinosaur" | 2022 | 23 | 10 | 22 | Dinosaur | |||||||
| "Two of Us (Stuck)" | 2023 | — | 34 | — | ||||||||
| "Livin' My Life Like a Country Song" (Reimagined) | 2024 | — | — | — | ||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. | ||||||||||||
Notes
| Year | Peak chart positions | Album | Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Adult | |||
| "Point to Prove"[44] | 2003 | — | Theory of a Deadman |
| "The Last Song" | — | ||
| "Leg To Stand On" | — | ||
| "Since You've Been Gone"[45] | 2006 | — | Gasoline |
| "Wait for Me"[46] | 2009 | 30 | Scars & Souvenirs |
| "Crutch" | — | ||
| "Sacrifice" | — | ||
| "End of the Summer" | 2010 | — | |
| "Out of My Head"[47] | 2011 | 28 | The Truth Is... |
| "The Truth Is... (I Lied About Everything)" | — | ||
| "Head Above Water"[48] | 2012 | — | |
| "Easy to Love You"[49] | — | ||
| "Misery of Mankind" | 2014 | — | Savages |
| "Livin' My Life Like a Country Song" | — | ||
| "In Ruins" | — | ||
| "The Sun Has Set on Me" | — | ||
| "Hallelujah"[50] | 2016 | — | Non-album singles |
| "Shape of My Heart" | 2017 | — | |
| "Cold Water"[51] | — | ||
| "Echoes" | — | Wake Up Call | |
| "Wake Up Call" | — |
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| "Time Machine" | — | ||
| "Wicked Game"[52] | 2018 | — | |
| "PCH" | — | ||
| "Say Nothing" | 2019 | — | Say Nothing |
| "Ambulance" | 2023 | — | Dinosaur |
| Song | Album | Director(s) | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | "Nothing Could Come Between Us" | Theory of a Deadman | Glenn Bennett | [53] |
| 2003 | "Make Up Your Mind" | Gregory Dark | [54] | |
| "Point to Prove" | ||||
| 2005 | "No Surprise" | Gasoline | Dan Rush | [55] |
| "Santa Monica" | Kyle Davison | [56] | ||
| 2006 | "Since You've Been Gone" | |||
| 2008 | "So Happy" | Scars & Souvenirs | Colin Minihan | [57] |
| "Bad Girlfriend" | [58] | |||
| "All or Nothing" | Davin Black | [59] | ||
| 2009 | "Hate My Life" | Bill Fishman | [60] | |
| "Not Meant to Be" | Tony Petrossian | [61] | ||
| "By the Way" | Paul Boyd | [62] | ||
| 2011 | "Lowlife" | The Truth Is... | [63] | |
| "Bitch Came Back" | Bill Fishman | [64] | ||
| "Hurricane" | [65] | |||
| 2012 | "Easy to Love You" | John Poliquin | [66] | |
| 2014 | "Drown" | Savages | Rich Ragsdale | [67] |
| "Savages" | ||||
| "Angel" | ||||
| 2015 | "Blow" | Tony Corella | [68] | |
| 2017 | "Rx (Medicate)" | Wake Up Call | Maria Juranic | [69] |
| "Echoes" | Kenlon Clark | [70] | ||
| 2018 | "Straight Jacket" | Iqbal Ahmed | [71] | |
| "PCH" | Ryan Sheehy | [72] | ||
| "Wake Up Call" | ||||
| 2019 | "History of Violence" | Say Nothing | Sam Sulam | [73] |
| 2020 | "World Keeps Spinning" | [74] | ||
| 2022 | "Dinosaur" | Dinosaur | Tony Corella | [75] |
| 2023 | "Two Of Us (Stuck)" |