Silver Side Up is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Nickelback, released on September 11, 2001.

According to AllMusic, Silver Side Up continued Nickelback's tradition of "dark high-octane rock" from the band's first two albums.

By 2000, Nickelback had begun to receive commercial success through performing their 1998 album The State and its lead single "Leader of Men".

Nickelback took their time recording Silver Side Up, and eventually hired Rick Parashar to help them produce the album.

Mike Kroeger, the bass player, wanted to release "Never Again", but the record label and bandmates decided "How You Remind Me" would be more appropriate.

Silver Side Up received Platinum status from the RIAA one month after its release, becoming Nickelback's first album to garner that distinction.

By the end of 2001, Silver Side Up had been awarded Double Platinum status by the RIAA for selling two million copies in the United States.

Follow-up singles were "Too Bad" and "Never Again", both of which reached number one on the rock charts, but failed to achieve the same success as "How You Remind Me".

Rolling Stone critic Matt Diehl gave the album two out of five stars, stating, "Nearly every song seems trapped in the amber of early-Nineties Seattle aesthetics, the sonic equivalent of too many unfortunate goatees.