Here's to the Good Times | ||||
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Studio album by Florida Georgia Line | ||||
Released | December 4, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2012–13 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 40:00 | |||
Label | Republic Nashville | |||
Producer | Joey Moi | |||
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Singles from Here's to the Good Times | ||||
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This Is How We Roll | ||||
Singles from Here's to the Good Times...This Is How We Roll | ||||
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About.com | |
Allmusic | |
Music Is My Oxygen Weekly | |
Roughstock | |
Taste of Country |
Here's to the Good Times is the debut studio album by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line. It was released on December 4, 2012, by Republic Nashville. The album includes the five tracks from their It'z Just What We Do EP; including "Cruise", along with six new songs. The deluxe edition, titled Here's to the Good Times… This Is How We Roll, was released on November 25, 2013. The album was the sixth best-selling album of 2013 in the United States, and it became a certified two-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on July 1, 2014.
Here's to the Good Times has received mixed reviews by music critics. Robert Silva of About.com found that the album "may not be built to last, but it's built to be blast."Allmusic's Steve Leggett told that the release is "based on summer energy, drinking beer, taking shots, driving back roads, and the romantic glories and possibilities of Friday and Saturday nights with nothing to do but look for those good times." At Music Is My Oxygen Weekly, Rob Burkhardt evoked that "Here’s To the Good Times is only going to add to Florida Georgia Line’s rapidly growing popularity." Matt Bjorke of Roughstock praised the album because "is chock full of hits", and said that "it's the work of a band who not only has captured an audience seemingly overnight but also has the potential to be the biggest duo in Country Music". However, Taste of Country's Billy Dukes was critical of the release because it does not contain "a wide range of styles and emotions", and that "Florida Georgia Line would have been better served by a more experienced country producer instead of the talented Joey Moi".
The album debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Top Country Albums, and No. 10 on the Billboard 200 with 63,000 copies sold in the United States. The album eventually reached No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart in June 2013.
The album was the sixth best-selling album of 2013 in the United States, with 1,350,000 copies sold for the year. The album reached its 2 million sales mark in August 2014. As of November 2016, the album has sold 2,343,400 copies in the US.