Studio Album · No. 4
One by One Songwriting Credits by Foo Fighters
Produced by Nick Raskulinecz, Adam Kasper, Foo Fighters · Engineered by Jim Scott (mixing), A.J. Lara (mastering), Bob Ludwig (mastering), Bob Michaels (mastering)
Holds writing credit on 11 of 11 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 11 / 11 documented
Scored across the 11 tracks with documented writers, by whether Foo Fighters carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 11 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Awards & Recognition 2
One by One was produced by Foo Fighters and Adam Kasper (tracks 1-7) and Nick Raskulinecz (tracks 8-11), with Jim Scott mixing throughout and A.J. Lara, Bob Ludwig, and Bob Michaels co-mastering. The band initially recorded a full album with Steve Albini but scrapped those sessions as too raw; the replacement sessions with Kasper yielded the final release. "All My Life," released as a single in August 2002 before the album, won Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 45th Grammy Awards (2003); the album itself won Best Rock Album at the 46th Grammy Awards (2004). It sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
One by One is the fourth studio album by Foo Fighters, released in October 2002 on RCA Records and produced by Nick Raskulinecz, John King, and the band. It was recorded in the aftermath of a period of personal difficulties for Grohl that included a near-dissolution of the band following members' side projects, and the sessions that produced the album were preceded by an initial abandoned recording attempt that was ultimately replaced. Grohl wrote all material; the album is the most straightforwardly hard rock of the career to that point, with 'All My Life' (which won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance), 'Times Like These,' 'Low,' and 'Have It All' among the principal tracks. 'All My Life' spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and 'Times Like These' received significant AOR radio play; the album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 and has been certified three-times platinum in the United States. One by One is generally regarded as a commercial consolidation of the band's rock radio identity rather than a creative expansion, but its commercial performance confirmed the stability of the audience they had built since The Colour and the Shape. The album's commercial consolidation (three-times platinum, multiple rock radio number ones) confirmed that Grohl's formula for radio rock, built on powerful riffs and melodic choruses delivered with genuine emotional commitment, was commercially sustainable across successive albums without significant creative evolution, a stability that allowed him to take the greater artistic risks of In Your Honor.