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This Is How We Roll

2014 single by Florida Georgia Line

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"This Is How We Roll" is a song recorded by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line with fellow country music singer Luke Bryan. It is the fifth and final single from Florida Georgia Line's debut studio album, Here's to the Good Times, although it is only included on the 2013 This Is How We Roll re-release. Cole Swindell assisted the artists in writing the song. A remix, featuring Jason Derulo and Bryan was released on June 7, 2014.

01Critical reception

In a review of the album's rerelease, Matt Bjorke of Roughstock wrote that it is a "song which is definitely well within the musical pocket each of the song's writers have in their music and an obvious choice for single at some point. It's another sing-a-long, small town love type of song but does that matter at this point, it's a song that's all about feeling good with people you love to be with." Website Taste of Country also reviewed the song favorably, saying that "'Get Your Shine On,' 'Round Here' and 'Stay' have found success on country radio, but this track from the group's deluxe edition of 'Here's to the Good Times' is their best moment since 'Cruise.' They can get away with the rapping now, and having the stamp of approval from country's reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year certainly won't hurt."

02Music video

The music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld and premiered in March 2014.

A biker named Kenny loses a bet and has to jump a tree. He fails, resulting in his dirt bike being stuck in the tree. When he, Travis Pastrana and other men are found stranded by Hubbard, Kelley, and Bryan as a result of the failed dirt bike trick, Kelley invites them to a party in the back of their semi truck, which is revealed throughout the video to consist of dancing women and beer. The trio can be seen both inside and on top of the truck as it travels. Towards the end of the video, dirt bikers perform tricks as they fly over the trio, who are standing on solid ground.

03Commercial performance

The song first entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 75, and at number 18 on the Hot Country Songs chart and sold 52,000 digital copies for the week when the deluxe version of the album, Here's To The Good Times...This Is How We Roll, was released on November 25, 2013. It reached number one on the Hot Country Songs chart for the week ending of March 28, 2014, and stayed at number one for four weeks. It also peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 15 for the week ending of April 26, 2014. After it was released to radio, the song received significant airplay to enter the Country Airplay chart at number 25 for the week ending of March 1, 2014. It continued climbing the chart and peaked at number 2 in May 2014, behind Bryan's own "Play It Again", marking the first time in the chart's 24-year history that the same artist held the top two positions simultaneously.

The song reached its first million sales mark in April 2014, and its second in September 2014. It was certified Platinum by the RIAA on May 1, 2014, double Platinum on September 16, 2014, and quintuple Platinum on December 12, 2018. As of January 2015, the song has sold 2,276,000 copies in the US.

The song is featured in the video game WWE 2K15.

04Live performances

A mashup of the song with Jason Derulo's Talk Dirty was performed with Derulo at the 2014 CMA Awards.

05Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Canada Hot 100 (Billboard) 20
Canada CHR/Top 40 (Billboard) 46
Canada Country (Billboard) 2
US Billboard Hot 100 15
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) 1
US Country Airplay (Billboard) 2
US Adult Pop Airplay (Billboard)
Jason Derulo remix
23
US Pop Airplay (Billboard)
Jason Derulo remix
25

Year-end charts

Chart (2014) Position
Canada Canadian Hot 100 70
US Billboard Hot 100 49
US Country Airplay (Billboard) 22
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) 1

Decade-end charts

Chart (2010-2019) Position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) 16

06Certifications

Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) Platinum 70,000
New Zealand (RMNZ) Platinum 30,000
United States (RIAA) 6× Platinum 2,276,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

07Release history

Country Date Format Version Record label
United States February 10, 2014 Country radio Original Republic
June 17, 2014 Contemporary hit radio Jason Derulo remix
Watch videos about This Is How We RollExplainers and documentaries on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Sources and credits

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