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''Here's to the Good Times'' is the debut studio album by American
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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, 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 became certified two-times platinum by the
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(RIAA) on July 1, 2014. An expanded edition of the deluxe album released on May 9, 2025.


Critical reception

''Here's to the Good Times'' has received generally positive reviews by music critics. Robert Silva of
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found that the album "may not be built to last, but it's built to be blast."
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'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".


Commercial performance

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 was certified double Platinum by the RIAA on July 1, 2014, and reached its 2 million sales mark in August 2014. As of April 2017, the album has sold 2,367,400 copies in the US.


Track listing

* The Target bonus tracks were also included on the Target edition of ''Here's to the Good Times... This Is How We Roll'' as tracks 18 and 19.


Personnel

;Florida Georgia Line * Tyler Hubbard - vocals * Brian Kelley - vocals ;Additional Musicians * Tom Beaupre -
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* Brian Bonds -
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* Sarah Buxton - duet vocals on "Dayum, Baby" * Scott Cooke - bass guitar * Wes Hightower - background vocals * Jaren Johnston - background vocals on "Party People" * Charlie Judge - keyboards * Joey Moi -
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, electric guitar, programming, background vocals * Russ Pahl - pedal steel guitar * Mike Rojas - keyboards * Jason Schmidt -
percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...
* Adam Shoenfeld - electric guitar * Jimmie Lee Sloas - bass guitar * Chris Tompkins - keyboards * Ilya Toshinsky -
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, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, baritone guitar,
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* Ryan Vikedal - percussion * John Willis - talk box guitar


Chart performance


Album

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Singles


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Other charted songs


References

{{Authority control 2012 debut albums Florida Georgia Line albums Republic Records albums Albums produced by Joey Moi Canadian Country Music Association Top Selling Album albums