In 2003, Nickelback released The Long Road . The album was certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA in March 2005 and it had sold 3,591,000 copies as of April 2011. It has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and, in 2003 alone, the album sold 2 million copies worldwide. It…
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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…
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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 .
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. The album was released on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The album peaked at number two on the…
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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…
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The State was released by Nickelback in 2000 by Roadrunner Records and EMI Canada , followed by its release in Europe in 2001. It spawned four singles: “Old Enough”, ” Worthy to Say “, ” Leader of Men ” and ” Breathe “, the last two being Top 10 rock…
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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…
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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…
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The band was formed in the early 1990s as a cover band called Village Idiot by brothers Mike and Chad Kroeger ; their cousin Brandon Kroeger and Ryan Peake rounded out the band. The band later changed its name to Nickelback, which originated from the nickel in change that band…
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