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The rock group Nickelback started as an indie metal band in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, before breaking into the mainstream music scene in the United States and Canada in 2000. The band’s first hit single, “Leader of Men,” spent 13 weeks on the American rock chart’s top ten, winning over grunge-rock listeners and establishing Nickelback as a newcomer to watch. With grinding guitar riffs and emotionally charged lyrics, the band’s music reminded many of the popular rock groups Creed and Bush. Its 2001 release, Silver Side Up, debuted at number two on the American charts and at number one on the Canadian charts, fueled by the success of the hit single “How You Remind Me.”
Nickelback traces its roots to the small Canadian town of Hanna, population 3,000, in the province of Alberta. It was here that the band’s leader and vocalist, Chad Kroeger, grew up with his older brother and bandmate, bassist Mike Kroeger. As boys, the Kroeger brothers met guitar player Ryan Peake, who moved to Hanna from a town called Brooks when he was in the sixth grade. Ryan Vikedal, who became the band’s drummer, was a friend of Peake’s from Brooks.
In rural Hanna, about two-and-a-half hours east of Calgary, most young men looked toward a future in farming or coal mining. But the Kroeger brothers dreamed of a life in rock ‘n’ roll. Mike took his bass guitar to Vancouver, British Columbia, a ten-hour drive from Hanna; there he started playing with heavy-metal bands. Not long afterward, Chad and Peake borrowed $4,000 and set off to join him. With the Kroeger brothers’ cousin Brandon Kroeger on the drums, Nickelback was born.
The band independently recorded its first album, the seven-song EP Hesher, in early 1995. In December of the same year, they followed up with the full-length independent CD Curb. Without a lot of help from publicists, the band members promoted the CD themselves, calling or stopping in at music stores to make sure they carried Curb, and to make sure they restocked the CD when it sold out. And sell out it did. Their single “Fly” became a hit on Vancouver radio, with the rock station CFOX naming it their most-played song. At the Pacific Music Industry Awards, Curb received a nomination for Album of the Year—Independent Distribution.
Charged with the success of their first album, Nickelback took a loan of $30,000 and set out to record a second full-length album at Greenhouse Studios in Burnaby, British Columbia. But before they could get started, drummer Brandon Kroeger left the group. To replace him, Peake called on his childhood friend Ryan Vikedal, and the band was back in business.
More changes came while the group recorded its second album. The band broke relations with its management and decided to handle the business end
Members include Chad Kroeger, vocals, guitar; Mike Kroeger, bass; Ryan Peake, guitar; Ryan Vikedal, drums.
Group formed in Vancouver, Canada, early 1990s; released debut EP Hesher on independent label, 1995; followed with full-length independent CD Curb, 1995; released second full-length independent CD, The State, 1999; signed with EMI Music Canada and with the U.S. label Roadrunner Records, 1999; rereleased The Stat under Roadrunner label, 2000; released Silver Side Up, 2001.
Awards: West Coast Music Award (Canada), Best Independent Album, 1999.
of the music themselves. “[The managers] weren’t really helping us at the time,” Chad told Canadian Musician.“They were going through problems themselves, and that’s why we actually let them go, right when we were recording the record, because we all kind of thought that we could do a pretty good job on our own, and, well, we did just fine.” Nickelback released the album—an indie recording of The State— in January of 1999. With no record label and no management, they handled every aspect of the business—from promotion and marketing to distribution and booking—themselves. Chad, who had once held jobs in advertising, talked up the album to radio station program directors. Mike handled distribution, dealing directly with local music stores, and Peake oversaw the band’s website.
Through these grassroots efforts, Nickelback managed to sell 10,000 copies of the album in Canada. When their single “Leader of Men” became a favorite on Vancouver radio, the album sailed to the top of local indie charts. Clinching The State’s success was a West Coast Music Award for Best Independent Album. Word about the album—and radio airtime for its hit single—began to spread throughout the country as Canadian metal fans discovered the band.
It wasn’t long before the big record labels took notice of Nickelback. Courted by the top names in the industry, the band signed with EMI Music Canada. Yet looking south to the bigger market in America, they resisted big-name prestige and chose to sign with a small company—Roadrunner Records. Known for its success with “Nu-metal” bands like Sepultura, Coal Chamber, and Slipknot, Roadrunner promised to make a name for Nickelback in the States. “We felt a lot of enthusiasm coming from Roadrunner,” Mike Kroeger said in an interview with the Rocknworld website. “They were really into it. You know to be honest with you, the big labels, they were interested, they had their pocketbooks out, but we didn’t feel the sincerity we got from Roadrunner. They were genuinely interested in making us break America.”
The first step for the band was to rerelease The State on the Roadrunner label in March of 2000. By summertime, “Leader of Men” had hit the top ten on the mainstream American rock charts. Another single, “Breathe,” followed suit, while “Old Enough” climbed to the top 20. To keep up the momentum, Nickelback kicked off a 200-show tour, playing alongside such bands as Creed, 3 Doors Down, and Fuel. “It was fantastic,” Peake recalled in comments included on the band’s official website. “The snowball effect of the album was phenomenal. We started doing well in Canada, and then the buzz in the States took over. It totally went off the hook and was a great kickstart for us!”
Holding on to their moment in the spotlight, Nickelback recorded their album Silver Side Up in 2001. Propelled by the success of the album’s first single, “How You Remind Me,”Silver Side Up debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at number one on the Canadian charts. Written on the heels of a breakup between Chad and a girlfriend, “How You Remind Me” struck a chord for listeners with their own broken romances. In fact, the single had such widespread appeal that it crossed over from rock to pop, surprising the musicians who created it. “This crossover stuff is scary,” Peake told MTV.com. “We’re a rock band; we’ve always been a rock band. Pop radio never touched anything we did until this song. We didn’t sit down and say, ‘We’re going to write a crossover hit.’ We just wrote a Nickelback song.”
Yet the exposure of a crossover hit only helped the band. By November of 2001, Silver Side Up was selling 130,000 copies per week and earned triple-platinum record sales in January of 2002. Other singles from the album—such as “Too Bad” and “Never Again”—gained airplay. Nickelback promoted the album with another tour, and the band wrapped up 2001 as a solid presence in mainstream rock.
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Nickelback
Rock group
Group formed mid-1990s in Hanna, Alberta; members include Daniel Adair (born February 19, 1975, in Toronto, Ontario), drums; Brandon Kroeger, drums (member c. 1995\u201399): Chad Kroeger (born 1974), vocals, guitar; Mike Kroeger, bass; Ryan Peake, guitar, vocals; Ryan Vikedal, drums (member 1999\u20132005).
Addresses:Management\u2014Union Entertainment Group, 1323 Newbury Rd., Ste. 104, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Record company\u2014Roadrunner Records, 902 Broadway, New York, NY 10010. Website\u2014http://www.nickelback.com.
Career
Released EP Husher, 1996; released Curb, 1996; released The State, 1999 in Canada and 2000 in the United States; released Silver Side Up, 2001; released The Long Road, 2003; released All the Right Reasons, 2005.
Awards: Juno Award for best new group, CARAS, 2001; Juno Award for best group, CARAS, 2002; Juno Award for best single, CARAS, for \"How You Remind Me,\" 2002; Juno Award for best rock album, CARAS, for Silver Side Up, 2002; Juno Award for songwriter of the year, CARAS, 2003; Juno Award for group of the year, CARAS, 2004; Juno Award for fan choice, CARAS, 2004; Juno Award for group of the year, CARAS, 2006; Juno Award for rock album of the year, CARAS, for All the Right Reasons, 2006; American Music Award for best pop/rock album for All the Right Reasons, 2006.
Sidelights
Nickelback became the most popular rock band to come out of Canada in the 2000s and one of the most commercially successful bands of the decade by relying on a hit-making formula of hard rock combined with melody and extremely catchy hooks. Sometimes described as post-grunge, a throwback to the grunge subgenre of 1990s alternative rock, Nickelback is better understood as a band inspired by 1980s metal and 1970s hard rock as well as grunge, with an ear for pop songcraft. Lead singer Chad Kroeger, with an unrelenting vocal delivery and dramatic hairstyle and goatee, has become one of the decade's omnipresent rock stars.
Nickelback formed in the small northern Canadian town of Hanna, Alberta, more than 200 miles northeast of Calgary in the mid-1990s. They began as a cover band, but once an early singer and guitarist left, Chad Kroeger began writing his own songs. His brother and bandmate, Mike, moved to Vancouver to play in a metal band, and the rest of Nickelback\u2014Chad, his drumming cousin, Brandon, and guitarist Ryan Peake\u2014traveled to Vancouver to record their songs, then moved to the city in 1996 to pursue a career in music. They quickly released an EP, Husher, followed by a full-length CD, Curb, and began touring Canada. Ryan Vikedal replaced Brandon Kroeger on drums in 1999, and the band released its second full-length album, The State, recorded at the Green House studio in Vancouver in 1999.
A single on The State, \"Leader of Men,\" caught the attention of Canadian radio programmers. Nickelback got a boost from the fact that Canada had recently increased the amount of Canadian content its radio stations were required to play. Rock stations were desperate for new Canadian bands to add to their playlists, and Nickelback's post-grunge sound fit the bill. The band embarked on a 200-show tour to promote The State and opened for popular rock bands such as Creed and Silverchair. Soon they were signed to EMI in Canada and Roadrunner Records in the United States, which released The State there in early 2000. The album went on to sell 500,000 copies.
Nickelback returned to the Green House to record their next album, Silver Side Up, which included several songs the band had perfected on its long tour. Spurred by the hit single \"How You Remind Me,\" which became the most played radio song of 2002, the album hit Number One on the Canadian and U.S. rock charts at the same time, the first time a band had done so since the Guess Who in 1970. The album eventually sold 8.5 million copies. Critics seemed to peg them as imitators of grunge, but the band seemed to differ. Chad Kroeger cited heavy-metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth as his first influences. As for Nickelback's music, \"Some people call it alternative rock, some call it this, that, or the other, but to us it's just straight-up rock and roll,\" he told Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly.
Reviewer Erik Pedersen of the Hollywood Reporter seemed to grasp the essence of the band. Reporting on a Nickelback show in West Hollywood in October of 2001, Pedersen noted that the band had mixed the hard rock sound that had taken the airwaves back around the turn of the millennium with enough melody to appeal to a wide audience. They seemed equally familiar with late-1990s post-grunge, 1980s metal, and Led Zeppelin-style 1970s rock. Proud to be hard rockers, the band \"shrugged at subtlety and hissed at trendiness,\" Pedersen wrote. He also noticed that Chad Kroeger, with his striking long hair and goatee, had become a charismatic rock frontman, noting that the lead singer easily got the crowd to scream when he wanted them to and that his performance of a more sensitive song, \"Too Bad,\" addressed to Kroeger's father, \"drew shrieks from the numerous females in the crowd.\"
The band's next album, The Long Road, arrived in 2003 and sold five million copies, while the single \"Someday\" hit the top ten. As fans embraced the album, some critics recoiled. Stephen Thomas Erlewine dismissed the band as \"heavy-rock hucksters\" who were aping grunge bands such as Nirvana or Alice in Chains but not bringing any fresh creativity to their expressions of angst. \"It's all a generic litany of the torture of relationships and the evil that dad did,\" Erlewine complained. The final track, the party anthem \"See You at the Show,\" only led Erlewine to doubt the sincerity of the somberness on the rest of the album. Chuck Arnold of People dismissed the album as \"light on ingenuity\" and songs such as \"Someday\" as built on shallow hooks that are initially catchy but ultimately forgettable. But Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly, proud not to be a rock snob, gave the album a B+, praising Chad Kroeger's \"instantly identifiable voice imbued with passion and edge.\" To Sinclair, Nickelback's \"single-minded fervor\" and sing-along melodies made the band good.
Chad Kroeger emeged not only as a frontman on stage and on record, but also as a sort of musical entrepreneur, a calculating businessman, and songwriter. Reporters noted that the members of Nickelback started managing themselves between their first and second albums, with Chad Kroeger tracking radio airplay of their songs. Interviewers often found him talking at length about how he had studied what makes a popular song a hit. \"I study everything,\" he told Karen Bliss of Canadian Musician. \"I started studying every piece, everything sonically, everything lyrically, everything musically, chord structure. I would dissect every single song that I would hear on the radio or every song that had ever done well on a chart and I would say, 'Why did this do well?'\" Nickelback's single \"How You Remind Me,\" Kroeger told Bliss, sold so well because it was about romantic relationships, a universal subject, and contained three memorable hooks, including the \"yeah-ehs\" after the chorus.
Between albums, in 2005, drummer Ryan Vikedal left the band. He claimed the rest of the band had pushed him out because he was not the type of drummer they wanted. Daniel Adair, formerly of 3 Doors Down, replaced Vikedal as drummer. The group's next album, All the Right Reasons, was released in October of 2005. It included guest appearances by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top\u2014who played a guitar solo on the song \"Follow You Home\" and sang backing vocals on \"Rock Star\"\u2014and a posthumously sampled appearance by Chad Kroeger's friend Dimebag Darrell from Pantera, culled from guitar outtakes. The band also explored a more acoustic sound on some songs. \"Savin' Me,\" for instance, included strings and piano as well as guitars. \"We were a little scared of using piano,\" Chad Kroeger said in a biography on the band's website. \"We just didn't think it was very rock and roll.\" But once they heard the result, he added, they liked it.
The critical debate over Nickelback grew even more intense with the new album's release. Erlewine of All Music Guide noted that Kroeger evoked sadder emotions and the band responded with more acoustic instrumentation, but complained that the band still repeated the same chords, melodies, and harmonies too often; still played \"clumsy, plodding riffs\"; and included little humor in their lyrics. Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly stuck up for Nickelback again. Reviewer Whitney Pastorek gave the album a B, praising the band's \"richer, more diverse sound\" and describing the single \"Photograph\" as \"dreamy.\"
Nickelback spent much of 2006 touring. Meanwhile, Chad Kroeger was arrested in the British Columbia town of Surrey in June of 2006 and charged with drunken driving. His attorney entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf at a court hearing in August. In November of 2006, Nickelback won an American Music Award for best pop/rock album, surprising the band itself. \"We just kinda showed up because we were supposed to give one of these away tonight,\" Chad Kroeger said after receiving the award, according to the Calgary Herald. Kroeger added that he had thought the Red Hot Chili Peppers would win the award.
As 2006 ended, All the Right Reasons had sold four million copies and spawned five singles. Yet Nickelback was not done promoting it. The band was set to headline an arena tour of North America in February and March of 2007.
Selected discography
Husher (EP), self-released, 1996. Curb, self-released, 1996. The State, self-released, 1999; released in the U.S. by Roadrunner, 2000. Silver Side Up, Roadrunner, 2001. The Long Road, Roadrunner, 2003. All the Right Reasons, Roadrunner, 2005.
Sources
Periodicals
Billboard, February 26, 2000, p. 24.
Calgary Herald, November 22, 2006.
Canadian Musician, September-October 2003, p. 35.
Entertainment Weekly, October 26, 2001, p. 122; September 26, 2003, p. 93; October 28, 2005, p. 84.
Hollywood Reporter, October 15, 2001, p. 34.
People, October 13, 2003, p. 44.
Rock Airplay Monitor, July 26, 2002, p. 5.
Vancouver Sun, August 26, 2006.
Online
\"All the Right Reasons: Overview,\" All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:17f8zfs4eh2k (November 14, 2006).
\"Biography\" Nickelback.com: The Official Nickelback Web Site, http://www.nickelback.com (November 14, 2006).
\"The Long Road: Overview,\" All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ief1zff3eh3k (November 14, 2006).
\"Nickelback: Biography,\" All Music Guide, http:// www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kmmyxdyb2olg\u223cT1 (November 14, 2006).
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NICKELBACK
Formed: 1996, Hanna, Alberta
Members: Chad Kroeger, vocals, guitar (born Hanna, Alberta, 15 November 1974); Mike Kroeger, bass (born Brooks, Alberta, 25 June 1972); Ryan Peake, guitar (born Calgary, Alberta, 1 March 1973); Ryan Vikedal, drums (born Brooks, Alberta, 9 May 1975). Former member: Brandon Kroeger, drums (born Hanna, Alberta).
Genre: Rock
Best-selling album since 1990:Silver Side Up (2001)
Hit songs since 1990: \"How You Remind Me,\" \"Too Bad,\" \"Never Again\"
Though one of many successful commercial hard rock bands of the late 1990s, Nickelback outdid its competitors by scoring a number one single with the bitter \"How You Remind Me.\"
Nickelback began its career as a cover band in native Hanna, Alberta, located northeast of Calgary. Tiring of playing other acts' songs, singer/guitar player Chad Kroeger wrote a batch of his own songs, borrowed four thousand dollars, and moved to Vancouver to record them in a studio. Kroeger's band mates—brother Mike (bass), Ryan Peake (guitar), and cousin Brandon Kroeger (drums)—joined him in Vancouver in 1996. The band independently released the full-length album Curb and embarked on a tour across Canada.
In 2000, after replacing the departing Brandon Kroeger with new drummer Ryan Vikedal, Nickelback released The State. The band benefited from new Canadian radio content requirements that emphasized home-grown talent, and the single \"Leader of Men\" became a hit. \"Leader of Men\" hints at Nickelback's ultimately successful commercial formula, with chorus-laden guitars and the Kroeger brothers' dark, vocal harmonies. Nickelback subsequently scored high-profile opening slots for acts such as 3 Doors Down, Fuel, and Creed. Roadrunner Records, a subsidiary of Island Records, snapped up the band and re-released The State ; the album ultimately sold 500,000 copies.
The band's much-anticipated third album and first true major label album, Silver Side Up, appeared in 2001. It was an immediate hit, selling nearly 200,000 copies in its first week alone. The lead single \"How You Remind Me\" was a sensation. Set to ferocious guitars, \"How You Remind Me\" finds Kroeger growling kiss-off lines to a former lover (\"It's not like you to say sorry / I was waiting on a different story / This time I'm mistaken / For handing you a heart worth breaking\") around the song's central lyrical hook: \"This is how you remind me.\" With \"How You Remind Me,\" Nickelback topped both the U.S. and Canadian singles charts simultaneously—the first act to do so since the Guess Who, with its classic anthem \"American Woman\" in 1970.
The follow-up single \"Too Bad,\" inspired by Kroeger's own childhood, became an MTV staple and penetrated mainstream radio, despite its angry, hard-rocking tone, which features the rapid-fire chorus: \"It's too bad / It's too late / There's no time to rewind / Let's walk / Let's talk.\" On the strength of its hit singles, Silver Side Up ultimately sold 6 million copies worldwide. Nickelback was celebrated in its native Canada, earning Best Group, Best Rock LP, and Best Single (\"How You Remind Me\") honors at Canada's Juno Awards in 2002. The band also received Grammy Award nominations for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.
The success of Silver Side Up led to various high-profile collaborations for Nickelback. Chad Kroeger—along with Saliva front man Josey Scott, Theory of a Dead Man guitarist Tyler Connolly, and Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron—recorded \"Hero\" for the Spider-Man soundtrack in 2002; Chad Kroeger also appeared as a guest vocalist on Santana's album Shaman (2002).
SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY:
Curb (Roadrunner, 1996); The State (Roadrunner, 2000); Silver Side Up (Roadrunner, 2001). Soundtrack:Spider-Man (Sony, 2002).
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Chad Robert Kroeger (/\u02c8kru\u02d0\u0261\u0259r/,[4]n\u00e9Turton; born November 15, 1974) is a Canadian musician who is the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Nickelback.[5] In addition to his work with Nickelback, Kroeger has been involved with a variety of collaborations, appearing as a guest musician in several songs and has contributed in both production and songwriting. He has co-written several songs for other artists and films.\n
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Kroeger was born Chad Robert Turton in Hanna, Alberta, on November 15, 1974.[6][7] His maternal grandfather, politician Henry Kroeger, was born in Moscow to a Mennonite family of Prussian descent.[8][9] After his father left the family when he was two, he started going by his mother's maiden name of Kroeger.[8] He learned to play the guitar at age 13. His youth was sometimes troubled, and he was sent to juvenile detention for breaking into his junior high school.[10][11]\n
In the early 1990s, Kroeger was part of a grunge cover band, Village Idiot, with his cousin Brandon Kroeger and future Nickelback members bassist Mike Kroeger (his brother) and singer Ryan Peake. In 1995, Kroeger, Peake, Mike Kroeger, and then-drummer Brandon Kroeger,[12] formed the band Nickelback. Kroeger has continued to record and tour with this successful band for more than 20 years.\n
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In 2001, Kroeger founded the band The Suits XL. Band members included Sam Loubier-Demers and Yohann Gosselin on vocals and guitars, drummer Patrick Paquet, keyboardist Felix-Antoine Berube and singer Oliver Roy de Belleval. The next year, he co-founded the Vancouver-based 604 Records.[6] Later, in 2006, The Suits XL released an album through this label.[13] The next year the band was nominated for a Canadian Indie Award.[14]\n
Kroeger, along with Saliva vocalist Josey Scott, Theory of a Deadman lead vocalist (serving as guitarist for this track) Tyler Connolly and Our Lady Peace drummer Jeremy Taggart, performed the theme song titled \"Hero\" for the hit movie Spider-Man in 2002. Also in 2002, Kroeger wrote and sang on \"Why Don't You & I\" for Santana's Shaman. However, when Arista decided to release the song as a single in Summer 2003, Kroeger's label, Roadrunner, refused permission, citing concerns that Kroeger appearing on a \"high-profile single\" would compromise the excitement over Nickelback's fall 2003 release The Long Road. Kroeger recommended The Calling's Alex Band, another Arista artist, as a replacement for re-recording the single.[15][16]\n
In 2003, Kroeger won an International Achievement Award for the song \"Hero\" at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto.[17]\n
In 2007, Chad Kroeger worked with Santana for a second time, when he co-wrote and recorded guitar and vocals parts for a new song meant to appear on the compilation album Ultimate Santana. The track is called \"Into the Night\" and was released as a single on October 2, 2007. The album Ultimate Santana was released in October. Besides working with Santana, Kroeger also recorded with Travis Tritt on his album The Storm, where Tritt did a cover of Nickelback's \"Should've Listened\" track from The Long Road.\n
Kroeger featured on the Timbaland album Shock Value 2 with the song \"Tomorrow in the Bottle\", which also features Sebastian. In 2010, he provided guest vocals, along with Ludacris and guest lead guitarist Zakk Wylde, on the My Darkest Days single \"Porn Star Dancing.\" \n
In 2011, Kroeger was featured on the Steel Panther album Balls Out with the song \"It Won't Suck Itself.\" In early 2012, it was confirmed that Kroeger was working with French-Canadian pop rock singer Avril Lavigne on her fifth studio album.[19]\n
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In 2008, Kroeger was convicted of drunk driving in a British Columbia court after he was stopped for speeding in Surrey.[7][20]\n
Kroeger started dating Canadian singer Avril Lavigne on July 1, 2012.[21] The relationship started after they began working together in March 2012 to write and record music for Lavigne's fifth album.[21] Kroeger and Lavigne became engaged in August 2012.[22] They married in the south of France on July 1, 2013, which is Canada Day.[21] Lavigne and Kroeger honeymooned in Portofino, Italy. In September 2014, the entertainment media began reporting that Lavigne and Kroeger were headed for separation after a year of marriage.[23] On September 2, 2015, Lavigne announced their separation via her official Instagram account.[24]\n
In 2015, the second leg of the band's North American tour had to be cancelled so Kroeger could have surgery for a cyst on his larynx. The entire leg of the European tour was cancelled as well.[25][26]\n
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Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. It is composed of lead guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, rhythm guitarist/keyboardist/backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair. It went through several drummer changes between 1995 and 2005.\n
The band signed with Roadrunner Records in 1999 and reached a mainstream breakthrough in 2002 with the single \"How You Remind Me\", which reached number one in the United States and Canada. Its parent album, Silver Side Up, would go on to be certified 8\u00d7 Platinum in Canada.[1] Nickelback's fourth album, The Long Road, was released in 2003 and spawned five singles, including Canadian number one \"Someday\", which also reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] \n
In 2005, the band's best-selling album to date, All the Right Reasons, produced three top-ten and five top-twenty singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including \"Photograph\", \"Far Away\", and \"Rockstar\", the latter of which was their biggest success in the United Kingdom.[3] Nickelback released eight singles from their sixth album Dark Horse (2008), including the United States top ten track \"Gotta Be Somebody\". In 2011, the seventh album Here and Now topped the charts in Canada.[4] The band has since released No Fixed Address (2014), Feed the Machine (2017) and most recently its tenth album Get Rollin' (2022).\n
Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.[5] In 2009, Billboard ranked it the most successful rock group and the seventh-most successful artist of that decade; \"How You Remind Me\" was the best-selling rock song and the fourth-best overall.[6] In 2023, Nickelback were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.[7][8]\n
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Formation (1995)
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The band was formed in the early 1990s as a cover band called \"Village Idiot\"[9]\nby brothers Michael and Chad Kroeger with their cousin Brandon Kroeger and Ryan Peake. The band later changed its name to Nickelback, which originated from the nickel in change that band member Mike Kroeger gave customers at his job at Starbucks; he would frequently say, \"Here's your nickel back.\"[10][11]\nThe band performed covers of songs from Led Zeppelin and Metallica. Chad Kroeger then asked his step-father to loan him $4,000 CAD so that the band could record their first demo, a seven-track EP of original material, called Hesher (1996).[12][13]\nThe band spent half the money to record the EP, while Kroeger spent the other half on magic mushrooms[9] to resell. \n
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Curb and The State (1996\u20132000)
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In 1996, the band recorded and released their first full-length album, Curb. \"Fly\" was included on both Hesher and Curb and was the first single produced by Nickelback. In 1997, Brandon Kroeger left the band and was replaced by Mitch Guindon; however, Guindon soon departed as well. While initially reported due to him starting work at a car company, Guindon's departure came due to him \"not [being] meant for the road\". Chad Kroeger stated that his skin was not able to handle cold weather and they convinced him to leave.[14] In Summer 1998, Ryan Vikedal joined the band.\n
Roadrunner A&R Ron Burman told HitQuarters that one of his West Coast scouts sent him the self-released album and, suitably impressed, he travelled to Vancouver to see them perform live. Although an unknown property in the industry at the time, the venue was packed out. In Burman's words: \"I immediately got the chills! I thought their song 'Leader of Men' was a smash hit.\"[15] Off the stage he was impressed by their industry and initiative in managing their career. Despite this, it still took Burman three months for him to convince his label bosses to approve the signing, a decision that would mark Roadrunner's first move into mainstream rock.[15] Nickelback signed a record deal with EMI and Roadrunner Records in 1999.\n
The State was released by Nickelback in 2000 by Roadrunner Records and EMI Canada, followed by its release in Europe in 2001. It spawned 4 singles: \"Old Enough\", \"Worthy to Say\", \"Leader of Men\" and \"Breathe\", the last two being Top 10 rock hits. The album was the band's first album to be certified gold status and it later went into platinum status in 2008, after the success of their later albums.[16] The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 130 and peaked at number 3 in the Billboard Top Heatseekers albums chart and peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Top Independent albums chart.[17]\n
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Silver Side Up and The Long Road (2001\u20132004)
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Around 2001, Chad Kroeger started \"studying every piece, everything sonically, everything lyrically, everything musically, chord structure. I would dissect every single song that I would hear on the radio or every song that had ever done well on a chart and I would say, 'Why did this do well?'\" Kroeger said that Nickelback's single \"How You Remind Me\" sold so well because it was about romantic relationships, a universal subject, and contained memorable hooks.[18]\n
To record their third album Silver Side Up, Nickelback collaborated with producer Rick Parashar. The album was written before the release of The State and was recorded at the same studio.[19] The album was released on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 with over 177,000 copies sold in its first week and peaked at number one at the Canadian albums chart, making it the band's first album to do so.[20][non-primary source needed] The single \"How You Remind Me\" was a number one single on the Mainstream and Modern rock charts, as well as the pop chart.[citation needed] It also peaked at number two on Adult Top 40 and became the Billboard Hot 100 number one single of the year for 2002. The next single was \"Too Bad\", which also reached number one on the Mainstream Rock Chart.[citation needed] The final single from the album was \"Never Again\", which also hit number one on Mainstream Rock.[citation needed]\n
In 2002, Chad Kroeger collaborated with Josey Scott on the Spider-Man theme song, \"Hero\". This recording also featured Tyler Connolly, Mike Kroeger, Matt Cameron, and Jeremy Taggart. In 2002, Nickelback released their first DVD Live at Home. On August 19, 2002, an incident occurred while the band was performing at the Ilha do Ermal festival in Portugal. While performing the second song of their set, Chad Kroeger was sprayed with a full bottle of water hurled from somewhere within the audience. After finishing the song, Chad asked the crowd, \"Do you want to hear some rock 'n' roll or do you want to go home?\" A person in the audience then threw a rock at Chad's head. The band then left stage, with Chad and Vikedal giving the finger to the audience as they left. The band's label, Roadrunner, posted video footage of the entire incident on their website.[21][22]\n
In 2003, Nickelback released The Long Road. The album was certified 3\u00d7 Platinum by the RIAA in March 2005 and it had sold 3,591,000 copies as of April 2011.[23] It has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and, in 2003 alone, the album sold 2 million copies worldwide.[24] It debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200. This was their first album produced by Joey Moi, a former classmate of the band's.[25]\n
The Long Road was ranked No. 157 on Billboard's 200 Albums of the Decade.[26] It spawned five singles. The lead single was \"Someday\".[27] The band also released \"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good\" as a single, which peaked at number three on the Mainstream Rock Charts. \"Figured You Out\" was also released as a single and topped the Mainstream Rock Charts for 13 consecutive weeks.\n
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All the Right Reasons (2005\u20132007)
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After wrapping up the band's tour in support of The Long Road on New Year's Day 2005, drummer Ryan Vikedal was fired after a royalty dispute. He was later replaced by 3 Doors Down's drummer Daniel Adair.[28] Kroeger later sued Vikedal to prevent him receiving any further royalties from Nickelback's music, though the lawsuit was later settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.[29][30][31] Nickelback promptly went into the studio with their new drummer from January through May 2005. The sessions resulted in their fifth studio album, All the Right Reasons which was released on October 3, 2005. It peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 with 323,350 copies in its first week in the United States, as well as producing five U.S. Hot 100 top 20 singles: \"Photograph\", \"Savin' Me\", \"Far Away\", \"If Everyone Cared\" and \"Rockstar\". Three of these became U.S. Hot 100 top 10 singles.[32] Also, the album peaked at number one on the Canadian albums chart. The album sold more than 12 million singles and over 9 million ringtones. The album also made Nickelback the first band in Nielsen BDS history to have 5 singles on the CHR charts. It included appearances by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, who played a guitar solo on the song \"Follow You Home\" and sang backing vocals on \"Rock Star\"\u2014and a posthumously sampled appearance by Chad Kroeger's friend Dimebag Darrell from Pantera, culled from guitar outtakes. All the Right Reasons had sold over 7 million copies in the U.S. to June 19, 2010.[33]\n
\nNickelback in May 2006\n
The band spent much of 2006 and 2007 touring across the globe. In the fall of 2006, the band opened for Bon Jovi on the European leg of the Have a Nice Day Tour.[34] Over 2 million fans attended Nickelback's shows during those two years.[35][non-primary source needed]\n
The band played at Sturgis, South Dakota to over 35,000 people at the 2006 Sturgis Bike Rally. The performance was filmed with 15 high-definition cameras. They released the DVD and Blu-ray of it in 2009, several years after the performance.[36] In November 2006, the band won an American Music Award for best pop/rock album, surprising the band itself. \"We just kinda showed up because we were supposed to give one of these away tonight,\" Chad Kroeger said after receiving the award. He added that he had thought the Red Hot Chili Peppers would win the award.[37]\n
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Dark Horse (2008\u20132010)
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After taking much of 2007 off, the band started recording a new album in earnest. In July 2008, the band signed with Live Nation for three touring and album cycles, with an option for a fourth.[38] On September 4, 2008, it was announced that the first single from the upcoming album would be \"If Today Was Your Last Day\", to be released on September 30, 2008. This announcement was however never confirmed: Roadrunner Records actually chose to release another song, \"Gotta Be Somebody\", as the first single. It became Nickelback's 5th and so far final single to hit the No. 1 spot on the U.S. Adult Top 40 chart.[39] The new album, produced by Mutt Lange and titled Dark Horse, was released on November 18, 2008.[40] \"Something in Your Mouth\" was released as the second single to rock radio only on December 15, 2008, where it reached number one. \"If Today Was Your Last Day\" was eventually released as a single after all on March 31, 2009: it became the third single from the album. Four more singles were released later in 2009, \"I'd Come for You\", \"Burn It to the Ground\" and \"Never Gonna Be Alone\" released in September and \"Shakin' Hands\" as the seventh single on November 16.[41] Its eighth single, \"This Afternoon\", was released on March 23, 2010. Dark Horse was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 9, 2008, only three weeks after its North American release.[citation needed] All eight singles were major hits which finished at or near the top of at least one high-profile chart.\n
On November 26, 2008, the band announced the tour for the support of the album. Live Nation produced the tour and the band kicked off in Nashville, Tennessee, with Seether, and Saving Abel as their opening acts.[42] The band then announced that they were about to tour in the UK with Black Stone Cherry as their opening act.[citation needed] The band then announced the second leg of the tour of North America with the opening acts being Hinder, Papa Roach, and once again, Saving Abel.[citation needed] The band then went on tour around Australia and New Zealand with Sick Puppies as their supporting act.[citation needed] For the second leg of the Europe tour, the band played with their opening act Daughtry.[43] The third leg of the North America tour kicked off with Breaking Benjamin, Sick Puppies and Shinedown opening up for the band.[44] The band concluded their tour with the fourth leg in North America which included Buckcherry and Three Days Grace.[45] The tour was very successful and the band sold over 1.6 million tickets with 146 shows.[46]\n
\nNickelback at the 2009 Juno Awards\n
The album also remained in the top 20 on the Billboard 200 for weeks after its release.[47][48] The album was certified two times platinum in April 2009, and had by April 2010 sold over 3 million copies in the U.S.[48] However, critical reception of the album has been mostly mixed to negative.[49] In 2009, the band won three Juno Awards for Juno Fan Choice Award, group of the year, and album of the year;[50] the band performed their single \"Something in Your Mouth\" at the ceremony.[51] In 2010, Billboard year end charts listed Dark Horse as the top-selling rock and metal album of the year.[52] The band was also listed at the top selling hard rock artist.[53] On January 29, 2010, they released a Tap-Tap rhythm game for on the App Store, contrary to the band's prior comments against other music related video games such as Guitar Hero.[54]\nOn February 28, 2010, Nickelback gave a performance at the beginning of the concert portion of the 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, performing \"Burn It to the Ground\". In October 2010 Nickelback finished their Dark Horse Tour.[55][non-primary source needed]\n
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Here and Now (2011\u20132013)
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Chad Kroeger said in an interview with Billboard.com in September 2010 that songwriting for the next Nickelback album was planned to commence as early as February 2011 with \"about four tunes\" already in mind.[56] Adair mentioned that the band wanted to go back to the musical style of All The Right Reasons, which he described as \"more organic\".[57]\n
Nickelback announced their new album, Here and Now, on September 8, 2011, along with its two lead singles, \"Bottoms Up\" and \"When We Stand Together\". Kroeger said \"We're four people who love making music, the way we like to make it. We entered the studio this year with a vision, and it all came together. We're extremely happy with the results, and can't wait to share them with our fans.\" The album was released on November 21, 2011, with the band calling it \"Nickelblack Monday\", a play on Nickelback and Black Monday.[58] Two singles were released to radio stations on September 26, and September 27 for purchase on iTunes.[59]Here and Now peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 226,714 copies in its first week of release, with Christmas by Michael Bubl\u00e9 taking number one by a margin of only 419 copies.[60]\n
As part of promotion for the album, Nickelback was booked to perform at the halftime shows for both an NFL Thanksgiving Day game at Ford Field in Detroit on November 24, and the 99th Grey Cup in the band's hometown of Vancouver on November 27.[61] Also, as a promotion the band played to Jimmy Kimmel upon the album's release.[62] The band is nominated for 4 Juno Awards in 2012, and scheduled to perform at the ceremony.[63][non-primary source needed] Nickelback announced their Here and Now Tour on January 11, 2012, they are going to tour with Seether, Bush and My Darkest Days.[64][non-primary source needed] The band released a music video for their fourth single off of the album Lullaby.[65] The band officially announced the compilation album The Best of Nickelback Volume 1 through social media on October 3, 2013.[66] Frontman Chad Kroeger had previously stated in an interview that the greatest hits album was to feature songs from previous albums along with new songs[67] but the unveiled track listing ultimately contained only previously released material.[68][non-primary source needed]\n
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No Fixed Address and Feed the Machine (2014\u20132018)
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According to an interview with Chad Kroeger on CFOX-FM, the band planned to release their eighth studio album before the end of 2014. The lead rock single was also announced, \"Edge of a Revolution\", was released in August 2014. The track was described as a \"departure\" for Nickelback and a political song.[by whom?] Frequent collaborator Chris Lord-Alge returned to mix some of the tracks on the album. It was also announced the band had signed to Republic Records.[69] The lead single from the album is titled \"Edge of a Revolution\", and was scheduled to be sent for adds on Rock radio and be released to iTunes on August 18.[70][71][72] The lead pop single, and second overall, was announced to be \"What Are You Waiting For?\", and was released in September.[citation needed] \"What Are You Waiting For?\" was released as a single on digital retailers on September 9, 2014.[73] On August 22, 2014, Nickelback announced the album's title to be No Fixed Address, and released it on November 17, 2014.[74][75]\n
No Fixed Address Tour was their fifth headlining concert tour, in support of No Fixed Address. The tour was announced on November 5, 2014, as well as The Pretty Reckless, Pop Evil, and Lifehouse as the support act for the majority of the shows in North American while Monster Truck was support act in Australia and Europe (2016).[76][77] The second North American leg of the tour had to be canceled when lead vocalist Chad Kroeger required surgery for a cyst on his voice box. The entire leg of the European tour was postponed until Autumn 2016.[78][79][80]\n
\nNickelback performing in Sydney, Australia in February 2019\n
On August 19, 2016, Nickelback released a cover of Don Henley's song \"Dirty Laundry\" to streaming services.[81] On January 23, 2017, a new single, \"Feed the Machine\" was announced to be released on February 1, alongside specific details of a 2017 tour.[82] On January 25, Nickelback signed with BMG Rights Management to release their ninth album, also titled Feed the Machine.[83] The album was released on June 16, 2017.[84] The band released their second single from the album, \"Song on Fire\", on April 28, 2017.[84] Shortly after the release of the album, the band began a 44-city tour on June 23, 2017, in North America, co-headlined with Daughtry, Shaman's Harvest and Cheap Trick as supporting acts.[85]\n
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Get Rollin' (2019\u2013present)
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In early 2019, band members spoke of recording a tenth studio album, though Chad Kroeger conceded there was no timetable or rush for the band to complete it.[86] Mike Kroeger spoke of his personal desire to move in more of a heavy metal direction, or wanting to do an album of Slayer cover songs.[87]\n
In a July 2021 interview bassist Mike Kroeger commented when asked about the band's progress on new music saying \"That is happening right now, music is being composed and recorded up in Canada. We were out there, and something came up and our producer had to take some time off. So I took that opportunity to return home to Los Angeles with family and spend a little time at home but I'll be headed back up there in a couple of weeks to pick it up again.\" When asked about a potential timeframe for a release date, Kroeger said \"it'll be done when it's done\", explaining that the band would rather not be confined to a timescale for fear of making \"a shitty record\". \"Release dates are primarily arrived at by business interests, like record labels and whatever. We don't have one of those\", he said. \"We've been managing ourselves for about a year. So, the answer is no. We're doing it on our schedule, at our own pace, and it'll be done when it's done. 'Cause we've blown up deadlines in the past lots of times. Because we feel that you can make a good record and be late, but you can't, or you shouldn't, make a shitty record to be on time. So we won't be pressed for time.[89][90]\n
In August 2022, Nickelback began posting small snippets and teasers of new music via their official social media accounts with the date \"09.07.2022\" being branded on the posts.[91][92][93]\n
On August 26, 2022, students attending school at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia received a newsletter stating they were invited to attend and participate in a video shoot Nickelback would be hosting on August 30, 2022, for their single, outside the Convocation Mall on campus.[94][95][96][97]\n
The album title was revealed to be Get Rollin'.[94][98][99] The lead single \"San Quentin\" was released on September 7, 2022.[94][98][99] The second single \"Those Days\" was released on October 5, 2022,[100] followed by a music video on October 26.[101] The band embarked on its \"Get Rollin' Tour\" with opening acts Brantley Gilbert and Josh Ross. They performed on thirty-eight dates in Canada and the United States from June 2023 to August 2023.[102]\n
Review aggregator Metacritic reports that six of Nickelback's eight most recent studio albums since becoming a mainstream act\u2014The Long Road, All the Right Reasons, Dark Horse, Here and Now, No Fixed Address, and Get Rollin'\u2014have scores of 62, 41, 49, 51, 54, and 71, respectively, out of 100, indicating generally mixed-to-favorable reviews.[122]AllMusic reviewer Liana Jones gave their first commercially successful album, Silver Side Up, 3 stars out of 5, and complimented their \"intensity and raw passion\" and realistic storytelling.[123]\n
Despite their commercial success, Nickelback has been subjected to numerous jokes and a vocal negative response for some audiences,[124][125][126][127] some of which is attributed to the perceived derivative, repetitive and formulaic nature of their music,[128][129][130] as well as their over-use of hedonistic themes involving strippers, sex, prostitutes, drugs, and alcohol consumption.[131] However, in a review for the band's ninth album Feed the Machine, AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted that they had mostly done away with the crude and vulgar lyrical content they'd become known for, and praised the band for evolving their sound.[132] In the 2010s, Nickelback became the subject of internet memes that criticized their music, a status that the band came to embrace.[133][134][135] In May 2013, the readers of Rolling Stone magazine named Nickelback the second-worst band of the 1990s, behind only Creed.[136] In November 2011, users of the music-oriented dating site Tastebuds.fm voted Nickelback as the number one \"musical turnoff\".[137] In an interview in 2014, Chad Kroeger commented that the criticism helped him \"grow a thick skin\", and that without it, they would be \"this just whatever band\".[138]\n
Following their 2008 album, Dark Horse, ChartAttack credited the band's success to knowing their target audience: \"Chad Kroeger is a genius because he knows exactly what people want and precisely how far he can go. He turned out an extremely racy album that's loaded with songs about gettin' drunk and doin' it all without breaking any taboos, and with enough love and moral authority to grease its passage into the mainstream. Rejoice, North America. This is your world.\"[139]Billboard gave praise to the band: \"The bulletproof Nickelback provides affordable fun that promises good returns in hard times.\"[140] Various fellow musicians, like Chris Martin of Coldplay[141] as well as producer Timbaland[142] and singer Keyshia Cole,[143] have publicly shown support for the band.\n
To promote Once Upon a Deadpool, actor Ryan Reynolds released a scene depicting the title character with actor Fred Savage discussing the group after the latter compares his \"Marvel licensed by Fox\" film to The Beatles if they were produced by Nickelback. Deadpool, furious over the hate, proceeds to list off Nickelback's numerous accomplishments including their, at the time, 12 Juno Awards, adding, \"those count!\"[144]\n
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