Studio Album · No. 5
Time of My Life Songwriting Credits by 3 Doors Down
Produced by Howard Benson · Engineered by Chris Lord-Alge, Mike Plotnikoff
Holds writing credit on 12 of 12 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 12 / 12 documented
Scored across the 12 tracks with documented writers, by whether 3 Doors Down carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 12 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Time of My Life is again band-written, but it hands production to Howard Benson, a change from Johnny K that gives the album a glossier hard-rock sheen. Led by the single "When You're Young," it debuted at No. 3 but sold well below the band's early-2000s peak. It was the last 3 Doors Down album recorded with founding bassist Todd Harrell before his 2013 departure.
The fifth 3 Doors Down album, released July 19, 2011 with Howard Benson producing, and the first the band did not write entirely alone: Brad Arnold still wrote all the lyrics himself, but Marti Frederiksen, Zac Maloy and Bobby Huff share the music credits on four tracks. It is the last album with Matt Roberts, who left in 2012 and died in 2016, and the last with Todd Harrell, fired in 2013 after a vehicular homicide arrest. It entered the Billboard 200 at number three on about 60,000 first-week copies, topped the Rock Albums chart, and had sold 225,000 in the United States by 2016.