Question 1

Does The All-American Rejects write their own songs?

Accepted Answer

Almost entirely. Tyson Ritter is credited on all 58 tracks across five albums, and 55 of those are written by band members with nobody else involved. Only three songs in the whole catalogue carry an outside writer, and all three are on the 2026 album Sandbox.

Question 2

Who wrote "Gives You Hell"?

Accepted Answer

The band as a whole. When the World Comes Down credits every track to the All-American Rejects rather than to individuals. It reached number 4 on the Hot 100, their biggest single.

Question 3

Who wrote "Dirty Little Secret"?

Accepted Answer

Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler, the two who started the band. They wrote all twelve tracks on Move Along between them.

Question 4

How many albums have they released?

Accepted Answer

Five studio albums between 2002 and 2026, plus a B-sides collection that sits outside this catalogue.

Question 5

Who is Nick Wheeler?

Accepted Answer

The guitarist and Ritter's writing partner since 1999. He shares 46 of the band's 58 album tracks, though he has no credit on the 2026 album.

Question 6

What changed on Sandbox?

Accepted Answer

Ritter writes eight of the twelve tracks alone, the first time he has done that, and Scott Chesak becomes the first outside co-writer the band has used on a record.

Question 7

Which album sold the most?

Accepted Answer

Move Along, 2,000,000 in America and certified 3x Platinum.

Question 8

Have they won awards?

Accepted Answer

An MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video for "Move Along", and the Rising Star award from the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, which later inducted them.

Question 9

Why did the band stop releasing albums after 2012?

Accepted Answer

Fourteen years separate Kids in the Street from Sandbox. They kept touring and released singles including "Sweat" in 2017, their first entry on the Hot Rock Songs chart.

Question 10

Do the producers write on the records?

Accepted Answer

No. Howard Benson, Eric Valentine and Greg Wells all produced albums for the band and none of them takes a writing credit.