Band · Ajax, Ontario's pop-punk export
Holds writing credit on 105 of 106 tracks
Deryck Whibley. He is credited on 90 of the 106 tracks across the eight albums and is the only writer on 60 of them. The sixteen without his name are all on Chuck, where the liner notes credit the writing to Sum 41 as a group instead of to individuals.
Across all 106 tracks: how many Sum 41 wrote alone, how many they co-wrote, and how many were written by others. The bracket marks every track they hold any writing credit on.
Share of all 106 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Percentage of all 106 tracks, across every album, where each member holds a credit - split by role.
| Member | Period | Lyrics | Music | Production | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deryck Whibley | 1996-2025 | 85% |
86% |
64% |
0% |
| Jason McCaslin | 1999-2025 | 3% |
3% |
0% |
0% |
| Tom Thacker | 2009-2025 | 2% |
2% |
0% |
0% |
| Dave Baksh | 1996-2006, 2015-2025 | 9% |
9% |
0% |
0% |
| Frank Zummo | 2015-2025 | 1% |
1% |
0% |
0% |
| Steve Jocz Former | 1996-2013 | 10% |
8% |
0% |
0% |
Sum 41's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
Where Sum 41 sits on the scale from a pure performer (0%, sings songs written by others) to a complete author (100%, writes everything). The bright marker is their catalogue authorship score, plotted against other artists on the site.
Reference artists spread across the scale, closest by genre and era.
None of the signature songs above fall in this category.
Aquarius / Island
Aquarius / Island
Aquarius / Island
Aquarius / Island
Island
Hopeless
Hopeless
Rise
No albums from this decade.
Sum 41106 tracks
25Greig Nori, 25 tracks
MG22Mike Green, 22 tracks
JF13Jerry Finn, 13 tracks
2Matt Squire, 2 tracks
DZ1David Zonshine, 1 track
AA1Adam Alt, 1 track
RA1Robert Alt, 1 track
NB1Nick Bailey, 1 track
SP1Sam Preston, 1 track
ST1Sam Tinnesz, 1 track
MJ1Mick Jagger, 1 track on The Rolling Stones's page
KR1Keith Richards, 1 track on The Rolling Stones's page
Bubble size = tracks worked on together. MG Mike Green · JF Jerry Finn · DZ David Zonshine · AA Adam Alt
Data Insight
Deryck Whibley is on 90 of the 106 tracks here, and alone on 60 of them. The sixteen he is missing from are all on one album: Chuck, in 2004, is credited to Sum 41 as a group with no individual named anywhere. Everything either side of it names him. The other change over time is production: Whibley produces from Screaming Bloody Murder onward, so on the last four albums his name is in the writer column, the producer column and the engineer column at once.
Quick Facts
Creative Fingerprint
One frontman who writes almost everything, with a single album deliberately credited to the band instead.
The Story
Sum 41 formed in Ajax, Ontario in 1996 and broke through in 2001 with All Killer No Filler and "Fat Lip". Deryck Whibley wrote and eventually produced nearly all of it. Eight albums followed across almost thirty years, moving between pop punk and thrash metal, before the band split in 2025 after a final tour and an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.