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Get Your Heart On!

2011 album by Simple Plan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ1613124 ↗
Source-derived summary

Get Your Heart On! is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Simple Plan, released on 21 June 2011. In some countries such as Australia and the Netherlands, the album was released on 17 June 2011.

Background and production

Simple Plan released their self-titled third album in February 2008. It was promoted with various TV appearances and tours of the US, Canada, Europe and South American, ending with several festival performances in Canada in July 2009. By September, the band begun working on a new album, writing material in Los Angeles, California. They took a brief break, before returning to writing in January 2010. In June, the group appeared on the Bamboozle Road Show 2010, before playing a handful of shows between July and September in China, Canada, Austria and Italy.

On 27 November 2010, Melodic reported that the band had finished recording.

Composition

The album's title, Get Your Heart On!, is a dick joke, alluding to an erection.

Editorial summary

“Get Your Heart On!” enters the record as 2011 album by Simple Plan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Your, Heart and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2008, 2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011-06-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Your, Heart and album.
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“Get Your Heart On!” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Your, Heart and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1613124. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Get Your Heart On!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.