Chart performance

Album

Year	Chart	Peak position	Ref
2003	U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	25
2003	U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums Billboard charts The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...	9
2003	U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	8
2003	UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	50
2003	Japanese Albums Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...	86

Singles

Year	Single	Chart
		Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	Hot 100 Airplay	Modern Rock Tracks	Top 40 Mainstream Mainstream Top 40 (Pop Songs) The Mainstream Top 40 is an airplay chart from Billboard magazine, and is also known as Pop Songs on billboard.com. It was often mistaken for and confused with the now discontinued Pop 100 Airplay chart...	Hot Digital Songs Hot Digital Songs The Hot Digital Songs chart ranks the best-selling digital singles in the United States, according to Billboard.Beginning in February 2005, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboards music single charts. It was decided to do so mainly because of the dramatic rise in popularity of...  (2007)	Top 40 Tracks Top 40 Tracks Top 40 Tracks is a defunct airplay chart from Billboard Magazine. It was created in 1998, when Billboard Magazine changed the airplay profile of The Hot 100 Airplay to include more R&B, Country, and Rock stations to its profile . To preserve the notion of the former chart, Top 40 Tracks was...	UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
2003	"Swing, Swing"	60	59	8	17	75	30	13
	"The Last Song"	—	—	29	—	—	—	69
	"Time Stands Still"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Certifications and sales

After The All-American Rejects major label debut on February 4, 2003, the album sold steadily in the United States. By March 24, 2003 The All-American Rejects had sold around 217,000 copies. On April 21, 2003, the RIAA

Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...

 awarded the album with a Gold certification, for shipments of over a half-a-million copies. By October 2003 the album had nearly sold 800,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...

. Later on March 29, 2006, around eight months after the band had released their second studio album Move Along, the RIAA certified The All-American Rejects Platinum for sales of over one million.

Country	Certification	Sales/shipments
Canada Canadian Recording Industry Association Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, artists, manufacture, production, promotion and distribution of music in Canada...	Gold	50,000
USA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...	Platinum	1,000,000+

Credits

Band

• Tyson Ritter – all vocals/bass
• Nick Wheeler – guitars/drums/keyboards/programming

Production

• Produced, engineered and mixed by Tim O'Heir
• Recorded at Mission Sound and Headgear Studio
  Headgear Studio
  Headgear Studio is an American recording studio based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was founded in 1998 by Alex Lipsen and Dan Long. In 2000, engineer Scott F. Norton joined as a partner and the studio relocated to its current facility near the Brooklyn waterfront...
  
  , Brooklyn, New York
• Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge, New York, New York
• Management: Mosaic Media Group

Marketing and A&R

• Booking: Jenna Adler at CAA
• A&R: Michael Goldstone
  Michael Goldstone
  Michael Goldstone is an American music industry executive.He began his career at MCA Records, where he worked in marketing and artist development before moving into A&R. Segueing to PolyGram, he signed Mother Love Bone and, after the death of lead singer Andrew Wood, signed the remaining members to...
  
  
• Art Direction: The All-American Rejects
• Illustrations and layout: Asterik Studio, Seattle
• Object photography by Erin Thompson
• Doghouse Records A&R: Dirk Hemsath
• Doghouse Records assistant A&R: Laura Echler
• Legal Representation: Richard J. Grabel at Grubman, Indursky & Shindler, P.C.

Release history

Country	Release date
Australia
United States
United Kingdom