Rock On The Net: Nickelback (original) (raw)
Nickleback hail from Canada and consists of Chad Kroeger on vocals, Mike Kroeger on bass, Ryan Peake on guitar, and Ryan Vikedal on drums. Nickelback started out as cover band but eventually led to the boys creating their own original material and independently releasing Hesher (EP) and Curb. The boys eventually got a following with relentless touring and eventually a record deal. The Kroeger brothers' cousin, Brandon Kroeger, originally was a member with the group but left and was replaced on drums by Mitch Guindon and then by Vikedal in 1998.
Nickelback released The State. The band had hits with "Breathe," "Old Enough," and "Leader Of Men" hitting the rock charts.
# 66 Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback won a Juno Award for Best New Group.
Nickelback released Silver Side Up.
Nickelback topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 13 weeks with "How You Remind Me."
Silver Side Up was certified platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 for the first time with "How You Remind Me."
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "How You Remind Me."
Silver Side Up was certified 2x platinum.
Nickelback hit #1 for 2 weeks with "How You Remind Me."
Nickelback topped the Billboard Hot 100 Single chart for 5 weeks, the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart for 3 weeks, and the Top 40 Tracks chart for 12 weeks with "How You Remind Me."
Nickelback:# 36 Singles Artist of the Year ~ Chad Kroeger: # 57 Singles Artist of the Year
Silver Side Up was certified 3x platinum.
Silver Side Up was certified 4x platinum.
Nickelback appeared on The Scorpion King soundtrack with "Yanking Out My Heart."
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Too Bad."
Nickelback topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 3 weeks with "Too Bad."
Nickelback won 3 Juno Awards for Best Group, Best Single ("How You Remind Me"), and Best Rock Album (Silver Side Up).
Chad Kroeger hit the Top 40 withJosey Scott (from Saliva) with the hit from the film Spiderman - "Hero" - which was in the Top 10 by the end of the month.
Kroeger with Josey Scott topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 2 weeks and the Modern Rock Tracks chart for 3 weeks with "Hero."
Nickelback won 2 MuchMusic Video Awards for Best Video ("Too Bad") and Best Rock Video ("How You Remind Me").
The video for "Hero" won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film.
Kroeger was featured on Santana's next LP, Shaman, on the track "Why Don't You And I."
Nickelback topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 3 weeks with "Never Again."
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems proclaimed "How You Remind Me" as the single receiving the most airplay during the year.
Nickelback topped the Billboard Year-End Charts with the Top Hot 100 Singles & Track, Top Hot Top 40 Track, and Top Hot 100 Airplay Track ("How You Remind Me"), and as the Top Hot 100 Singles Artist - Duos/Group.
# 71 Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback was nominated for a American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group. The band performed "How You Remind Me" at the ceremony.Nickelback could be heard on the Daredevil soundtrack with "Learn The Hard Way."
Nickelback were nominated for a Grammy Award for Record of the Year ("How You Remind Me") and Kroeger was nominated for 3 more for Best Rock Song, Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media ("Hero").
Silver Side Up was certified 5x platinum.
Kroeger and Nickelback won a Juno Award for Songwriters of the Year.
Nickelback with Kid Rockcontributed a track ("Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)") to the soundtrack for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Someday."
Nickelback topped the Canadian singles chart with "Someday."
Nickelback released their next LP The Long Road.
Nickelback topped the Canadian LP chart with The Long Road.
The Long Road was certified platinum.
# 31 Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 13 weeks with "Figured You Out."Nickelback was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Rock Song (songwriters) ("Someday") and Best Rock Album (The Long Road).
The Long Road was certified 2x platinum.
Nickelback topped the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart with "Someday."
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good."
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good."
Nickelback toured with 3 Doors Downduring the summer.
The single "Someday" was certified gold.
Nickelback was nominated for an American Music Awardfor Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group.# 242 on the Top Pop Artists of the Past 25 Years chart.
# 39 Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback announced that drummer Ryan Vikedal had left the group.Nickelback was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("Feelin' Way Too Damn Good").
The Long Road was certified 3x platinum.
Silver Side Up was certified 6x platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Photograph."
Nickelback released All The Right Reasons.
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Photograph."
Nickelback topped the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart with "Photograph."
Nickelback topped the Billboard 200 LP chart with All The Right Reasons - selling over 317,000 copies its first week of release in the US.
Nickelback topped the Canadian LP charts with All The Right Reasons.
Nickelback topped the Billboard Adult Top 40 Tracks chart with "Photograph."
All The Right Reasons was certified platinum.
The single "Photograph" was certified 2x platinum, "Someday" was certified platinum, and "How You Remind Me" and "Figured Your Out" were certified gold.
All The Right Reasons was certified 2x platinum.
# 5 Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback topped the Billboard Pop 100 chart with "Photograph."
Nickelback topped the Billboard Rock Albums chart with All The Right Reasons.Nickelback topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart with "Animals."
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Savin' Me."
Nickelback won 2 Juno Awards for Best Group and Best Rock Album (All The Right Reasons).
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Savin' Me."
All The Right Reasons was certified 3x platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Far Away."
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Far Away."
Nickelback topped the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart with "Far Away."
Nickelback hit #1 for a week with "Far Away."
All The Right Reasons was certified 4x platinum.
Nickelback topped the Billboard Pop 100 Airplay chart with "Far Away."
Nickelback won an American Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Album (All The Right Reasons), and were nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group, Favorite Alternative Artist.
All The Right Reasons was the 4th biggest-selling LP in the US for the year with sales during the year topping 2.6 million.
Nickelback topped the Billboard Year-End Charts as the Top Pop Artist - Duo/Group (singles & albums), Top Hot 100 Singles - Duo/Group, and Top Hot Adult Top 40 Artist.
All The Right Reasons was certified 5x platinum.
# 10 Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "If Everyone Cared."
Nickelback topped the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart with "If Everyone Cared."
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Rockstar."
All The Right Reasons was certified 6x platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Rockstar."
All The Right Reasons was certified 7x platinum.
Kroeger hit the Top 40 helping out Santana with the track "Into The Night" from the LP Ultimate Santana.
Nickelback won an American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group.
# 64Singles Artist of the Year
The DVD Nickelback: The Ultimate Video Collection was released.
Nickelback was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("If Everyone Cared").Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Gotta Be Somebody."
The State was certified platinum.
Nickelback released their next LP Dark Horse.
Nickelback topped the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart with Dark Horse.
Dark Horse was certified platinum.
# 21Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback topped the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart with "Gotta Be Somebody."
Nickelback topped the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart with "Something In Your Mouth."
Nickelback released the DVD Nickelback: Live At Sturgis 2006.
Nickelback won 3 Juno Awards including Group of the Year, Album of the Year, and the Fan Choice Award.
Dark Horse was certified 2x platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "If Today Was Your Last Day."
Nickelback won 3 MuchMusic Video Awards.All The Right Reasons was certified 8x platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "Never Gonna Be Alone."
Nickelback were nominated for a American Music Awardfor Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group.Kroeger could be heard on the Timbaland LP Timbaland Presents Shock Value 2 on the track "Tomorrow In The Bottle."
Nickelback topped the Billboard 2009 Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Billboard 200 Album Artist - Duo/Group, Top Hard Rock Album Artist, and with the Top Hard Rock Album (Dark Horse).
# 48 Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("Burn It To The Ground").
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "This Afternoon."
Dark Horse was certified 3x platinum.
# 90 Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with "When We Stand Together."
Nickelback released Here & Now.
Nickelback topped the Billboard Rock Albums chart, Hard Rock Albums chart, and Alternative Albums chart with Here & Now.
Here & Now was certified gold.
Nickleback topped the Billboard 2012 Year-End Chart-Toppers chart as the Top Hard Rock Artist and with the Top Hard Rock Album (Here & Now).
Kroeger married Avril Lavigne.
Nickelback released The Best Of Nickelback Volume 1.
- February: Here & Now was certified platinum.
- November 17: Nickelback released No Fixed Address.
- December 6: Nickelback topped the Billboard Rock Album charts, Alternative Albums chart, and Hard Rock Albums chart with No Fixed Address.
- March 3: All The Right Reasonswas certified 10x platinum.
- June 16: Nickelback released Feed The Machine.
- July 8: Nickelback topped the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart withFeed The Machine.
- November 18: Nickelback released Get Rollin'.
Note: Song title and position links lead you to the song's Top 40 chart run (from the ARC Weekly Top 40) and LP links take you to Amazon.com for that LP (often including track listings and sound samples).