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A Gekirock interview run in December 2012, ahead of the band's Nippon Budokan date, presented the choice of hall as the band's own. Drummer Daniel Adair explained that the tour had already put them into rooms they were playing for the first time, Los Angeles and New York among them, so Budokan became the obvious answer for Japan. Chad Kroeger said he had gone years getting the venue's name wrong, having taken his pronunciation from what he heard members of Cheap Trick say, and only learned how it is actually pronounced after arriving in Japan. Asked about the production, he described a screen-heavy, elaborate stage with pyro deliberately left out on safety grounds.
The routing Mike Kroeger described to the Japanese site Gekirock ran from Perth, where the Australian leg closed, home to Hawaii to collect his daughter, and on to Japan for Nickelback's 2015 dates there. The bassist said he meant to bring her: she was eleven, and by his account she took Japanese classes at school and had worked through a number of books about the country's culture. Shibuya, Harajuku and Akihabara were on the list of places he wanted to show her, and since he runs around the Imperial Palace on every Tokyo visit, he said he wanted to walk it with her this time. The label's own announcement, posted shortly before the shows, mentioned the planned father-and-daughter trip too. All of it was stated in advance, as an intention.
The band is named after a line bassist Mike Kroeger used at the coffee shop where he worked. Warner Music Japan's official profile places him at a local Starbucks and identifies his habitual "Here's your nickel back" — five cents handed back in change — as the phrase the name came from. The official Canada's Walk of Fame inductee page gives the same origin, tying it to the words he used when returning change to customers. Kroeger has been answering for it ever since: in a 2010 interview with The National he said the question had come at him several hundred times and that he had been fielding it since 1995.
At 14, Chad Kroeger was put in a juvenile detention centre for breaking into his own junior high school 11 times — his own account, set down in the first-person biography that Nickelback's official site once carried. The same page has him teaching himself guitar at 13, with a word of thanks to his mother over the first instrument. CBC Radio q tells the same story as a break-in at his high school rather than his junior high, so the sources do not agree on which school it was. Louder, reviewing the documentary Hate to Love: Nickelback in March 2024, recorded that he discusses the break-ins and the detention in the film, though it puts no number on them.
Roadrunner's own discography puts The State under 2000 and describes it as "Nickelback's debut LP for Roadrunner" — a debut qualified to the label itself, on a page that lists the two earlier records as self-released and sold only in Canada. The band's website, while it was still the current one, told it differently: its discography dated The State to January 1999 and called it the group's second full-length CD, and the front page in November 1999 described Nickelback as independent. Louder files the album under 1998 and reports a 2000 reissue through EMI Canada/Roadrunner, while CBC Music puts the Roadrunner and EMI signing in 1999. No source consulted here gives a day-level release date.
Silver Side Up was still only a working title while the record was being made. On June 6, 2001 the band's own site posted a recording update: roughly twelve songs were down, the sessions were due to wrap on June 8, the final track selection had not been made, and Randy Staub, listed on the page alongside his Metallica work, would handle the mix. The same post said the artwork was already in hand and the schedule was running early, with photo and video shoots booked for late June and early July. It then stated plainly that Silver Side Up had not been finalized as the album's title. A follow-up post dated June 17 reported the recording finished and the mix with Staub in Vancouver about half complete.
Jerry Cantrell came up on stage on two consecutive nights during the Canadian run of the Silver Side Up touring cycle in January 2002. A news post on the band's official site dated January 28 that year records that he joined them in Calgary on the Thursday for the Alice In Chains song "It Ain't Like That", and that "Rooster" was played with him in Edmonton the following night. Warner Music Japan's product page for the live DVD Live At Home, which it describes as capturing the homecoming Canadian shows from that world tour, states that the release also carries footage of Cantrell, who was travelling with the tour as a special guest.
Billboard's own chart history for the band dates the Hot 100 entry of "How You Remind Me" to the week of September 8, 2001, credits it with four weeks in total at its No. 1 peak, and counts 49 weeks on the chart altogether. One of those weeks at the top was the Hot 100 dated December 22, 2001.
Billboard maintains a list of the song that finished each year at the top of its Hot 100 year-end chart, and the entry it gives for 2002 is Nickelback's "How You Remind Me." Neighbouring entries make the framing plain — the 2001 song is listed with a weekly peak of No. 2 — so what the list ranks is the year-end result, not the weekly high.
The earliest account of how hard "How You Remind Me" was hitting radio comes from the band's own website. A news item dated October 9, 2001 thanked listeners for requesting the song and then reported that during the previous week it had broken the record for the most total spins in a single week at the Modern Rock format. The item also named the record it displaced: Sugar Ray's "Fly", from 1997. Around it sat the week's television schedule, a Tonight Show appearance on October 8 and a booking on the Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn for October 12. The spins figure is the band's own statement rather than a number published by a chart compiler.
All the Right Reasons entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 on the chart dated October 22, 2005. On that week's table the top row carries the NEW badge and shows no previous-week position. Billboard's own artist chart history lists the album with a debut date of 10/22/05, a peak of No. 1 held for one week, and 206 weeks on the chart as of August 19, 2026. Loudwire has written that this was the band's first chart-topper on the Billboard 200, and that the album spent more than 100 weeks inside Billboard's Top 30 — something no act had done, by that account, since Shania Twain's Come On Over in 1997.
Nickelback's RIAA search returns seventeen certified titles, and narrowing the Award field to Diamond leaves exactly one of them: All the Right Reasons. The results row itself names no award — the level there is a badge image — but the title's certification detail prints the current certification as DIAMOND, dated 3 March 2017, with a nine-times platinum award of the same date, and gives 16 November 2005, Gold and Platinum together, as the first certification. A unit is not a copy: RIAA counts one album sold, ten tracks sold from an album, or 1,500 on-demand streams as one unit each. BLABBERMOUTH.NET, citing Billboard, put the album's US sales at 7.96 million copies on Nielsen Music figures.
Nickelback were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the 52nd JUNO Awards, held at Rogers Place in Edmonton on 13 March 2023. BMG's press release records that Connor McDavid, the hockey star who captains the Edmonton Oilers, carried out the induction, that it followed a video tribute from the actor Ryan Reynolds, and that the band closed the broadcast with a medley of their hits. Blabbermouth.net adds that Edmonton lies in the band's home province of Alberta, that the medley was made up of "Rockstar", "How You Remind Me" and "Animals", and that this was their sixth performance on a JUNO Awards broadcast. The award body's own list of Hall of Fame recipients records the band in the class of 2023.
The Recording Academy's own artist page for Nickelback carries two numbers at the top: five nominations, zero wins. The five are Record of the Year at the 45th ceremony for "How You Remind Me"; Best Rock Album at the 46th for The Long Road; Hard Rock Performance at the 47th for "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good"; Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals at the 50th for "If Everyone Cared"; and Hard Rock Performance again at the 52nd for "Burn It to the Ground". Every row reads Nominee. The Academy's category archives name the winners in two of those races: Norah Jones took Record of the Year with "Don't Know Why", and AC/DC took Hard Rock Performance with "War Machine".
According to the JUNO Awards' own artist page, Nickelback's first JUNO was Best New Group in 2001; neither the wins list nor the nominations list on that page carries anything earlier. The following year they took three categories at once - Best Single for "How You Remind Me", Best Group, and Best Rock Album for Silver Side Up. The count for 2002 is three rather than four: Silver Side Up was also put forward for Best Album, and that one the database does not mark as won. CARAS put the same 2001 marker in writing again in a November 2022 announcement, describing Best New Group as the band's first-ever JUNO Award.
Blabbermouth and CBC Music both supply a name the band's own site leaves out: Village Idiot, the cover band its members played in around Hanna, Alberta. Blabbermouth traces the group's history back to 1995 in Hanna and reads the old name as a wink at the small town they played in and grew up in. On the official site, Chad Kroeger's first-person biography names neither the band nor the singer. It says only that after finishing high school he toured in a cover band with Ryan Peake and his brother, playing lead guitar while someone else sang — a singer he credits with teaching him how to front a band — and that after a year the group had had enough of other people's material and went its separate ways. In 1996 Kroeger and Peake made the ten-hour journey west to Vancouver, British Columbia, following Kroeger's brother and bandmate Mike.
Nickelback changed drummers in January 2005. Ryan Vikedal, who had played on The State, Silver Side Up and The Long Road, was out; in came Daniel Adair, until then with 3 Doors Down, a band Nickelback had toured alongside. Adair had already been asked to audition a month before the decision was taken. By Vikedal's own account, given to the Edmonton Sun, he was let go as the band began work on All the Right Reasons. Bassist Mike Kroeger has said the parting was not a clash of personalities, but a matter of acting before an arrangement that had stopped working came apart. In November 2005 Chad Kroeger, together with his production company Arm Your Dillo Publishing Inc., went to a court in Vancouver, British Columbia seeking to stop Vikedal from taking public-performance royalties on the band's songs earned after he ceased to be its drummer that January; the filing asserted that Kroeger alone had written the material. The documentary Hate to Love recounts Ryan Peake visiting Vikedal later on and the two mending their friendship.
Nickelback's frontman set up a record label of his own in 2002. Blabbermouth reported in June 2002 that Chad Kroeger had formed 604 Records with Jonathan Simkin, the band's longtime attorney, with Roadrunner Records — Nickelback's American label — distributing in the United States and Universal Music Canada handling the Canadian side. The two men had already worked together on the Canadian band Default, whose debut Kroeger produced and co-wrote on while Simkin ran the business end during Nickelback's touring. The label's first signing, in the spelling the report uses, was THEORY OF A DEAD MAN, whose debut was announced at the time for 17 September that year.
For a 2017 Loudwire feature, Chad Kroeger went through Nickelback's own Wikipedia entry and corrected what the money had gone on: of the $4,000 he had borrowed from his stepfather to record the Hesher EP, only half reached the studio and the rest went on magic mushrooms. Selling them, Loudwire writes, recovered the recording cost quickly and settled the debt to his stepfather as well. Writing about the same period, Classic Rock says the band arrived in Vancouver in 1996 with little more than a handful of original songs and that loan from Kroeger's stepfather, and put out the independent album Curb before the year was out.
The stop that carries the third chorus of "How You Remind Me" was not the band's idea. During the Vancouver sessions the band felt the song was decent but short of dynamics, and guitarist Ryan Peake had already proposed a series of stops to sharpen the choruses. What settled it was a suggestion from drum technician Andrew Mawhinney, who told them the third chorus needed a big stop of its own. That stop became the peak of the record. By Kroeger's account, the band paid Mawhinney $5,000 for that single suggestion.
Joey Moi, the engineer behind Nickelback's early recordings, was a student at the CDIS audio school in Vancouver when he began working with the band. He took on the school's janitorial and security duties and was paid in free studio time, drawing a slot that ran from midnight to eight in the morning, and he used it to cut Nickelback demos through the night. He recounted this in a 2013 interview with the Nashville trade paper MusicRow, which also describes his move from engineering to co-production on projects including The Long Road and Dark Horse; he holds a writing credit on "Burn It to the Ground" as well. His route to Nashville also started in Vancouver: he and Chad Kroeger produced someone from the band Default, and once Default hit a creative wall and its members moved on, he and the singer talked about making a country record together.
CBC Radio q traced one couplet in "Photograph" back to something Chad Kroeger actually did as a teenager: getting into his own high school to take money out of the safe in the office. The song puts a figure on how often it happened, and by that account the figure is not the true one — the real number was larger, and the shorter phrase was used instead because it sat better in the rhythm of the line. Kroeger said writing it down had never troubled him. He was charged, the offences are recorded against him, and as he sees it the debt has been settled. A later Louder piece identifies the building as J.C. Charyk High School. Kroeger's own biography on the band's official site puts the break-ins at his junior high school instead, so the sources disagree about which school it was.
What sits on Joey Moi's head in the picture Chad Kroeger holds up in the "Photograph" video is not a trophy. Kroeger told CBC Radio q that it is a large, very well polished champagne chiller, and that the shot was taken one New Year's Eve when the pair were extremely drunk. The picture in the video, he said, is the photograph the lyric is about; it shows him with Moi, a friend of the band who also produced them. A third man, Rob Mackie, had been standing right beside Kroeger in the original frame and was cropped out before the prints reached Kroeger and Moi, so all that remains of him is the hand keeping the chiller from sliding off Moi's head. Bassist Mike Kroeger added a detail of his own to WSOU-FM, in remarks reported by Loudwire: the picture was never a prop made for the shoot. It had hung in Chad's kitchen for years, it went back to that kitchen afterwards, and the chiller was a housewarming present from Mike and his wife.
Songfacts carries Chad Kroeger's own account of how "San Quentin" began: he was in conversation with a real prison warden, and while they talked the one thing that got through to him was the idea of writing a song by that name, which he put into the notes on his phone. Loudwire places that meeting at a birthday party for the television host Guy Fieri and identifies the man as the warden of San Quentin prison; Blabbermouth does not name the facility, calling him only the warden of a notorious high-security California prison, and says the song follows its central figure as he plots a clever escape. The track opens Get Rollin', and the single went out to streaming services on September 7, 2022.
Chad Kroeger wrote and sang "Why Don't You & I" for Santana's Arista album Shaman. Once the decision was taken to issue the song as a single, Nickelback's own label, Roadrunner Records, would not clear him for it, and the single version was cut again with Alex Band of The Calling, who also appears in the accompanying video. Roadrunner's statement said the arrangement with Arista covered Kroeger's performance on the album only, that neither label had a single in mind from the outset, and that Arista arranged the replacement vocal. Santana told Launch he had no hard feelings about the change, adding that Kroeger had fought to be part of the song and was the one who brought Alex Band in. Blabbermouth.net reported that Nickelback had a new album due in late September and that Roadrunner was concerned a high-profile summer single might blunt interest in it. Songfacts notes that Kroeger sang for Santana a second time on "Into The Night", from Ultimate Santana in 2007.
On a Sacramento radio show in 2023, Chad Kroeger recalled that producer Mutt Lange had first floated a much cruder title for the Dark Horse track "Something In Your Mouth." Kroeger judged it too far for a Nickelback song and set it aside, but the phrase stayed with him. When the members of Steel Panther later asked him to write something with them, by his account he put the discarded title forward straight away and they took it on the spot. The result was "It Won't Suck Itself," which also features Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt and sits sixth on Steel Panther's 2011 album Balls Out. Kroeger says the words were redirected toward being bitten by a snake or a scorpion and needing someone else to draw the poison out. The Lange story rests on Kroeger's recollection alone.
The pairing that travelled the internet as "How You Remind Me of Someday" started with one listener in Alberta. NPR's report of 4 January 2005, filed by Sean Cole of member station WBUR, described how Mikey Smith — then 21, a college student and a musician — heard the two Nickelback songs on the radio, caught how close they were, and built an audio file that played them at once, one song to the left speaker and the other to the right. Smith acknowledged tweaking the recordings a little, and said he had done so to show how similar they are; making the point to his friends and to his girlfriend, a fan of the band, was the aim. He put the file on his own web page so his friends could hear it, and by his account it reached far more people than he had expected.
At the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Hate to Love: Nickelback in September 2023, Chad Kroeger told People magazine that the film would be the last place he addressed the question of why so many people dislike the band: from that day on, he said, an interview would be over the moment a journalist raised it. By his own account he had not wanted the documentary to deal with the subject at all, and it was guitarist Ryan Peake who talked him round, arguing that telling the story themselves would let the band set its terms and present their own account. Asked why he had been reluctant, Kroeger picked up the reporter's recorder and turned the question back, asking how anyone would feel about being confronted every single day with the idea that the whole world hated them.
"Rockstar," from All the Right Reasons, was once the subject of a copyright suit. Kirk Johnston, a musician with the band Snowblind Revival, claimed the 2006 single drew on a song of his own titled "Rock Star." U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled in the band's favour on March 16, 2023. Loudwire reported that the judge held the two songs simply did not sound alike, and that the concrete detail in Nickelback's lyrics set them apart even where the themes overlapped. He also found that Johnston had put forward no meaningful evidence that the defendants had any realistic chance to hear his song, and that having played the same venue did not establish it. Rock-star subject matter, the ruling added, is a stock idea no one writer can fence off — a point the judge underlined by listing 17 other well-known songs working the same theme.
The opening shot of the 2005 video for "Photograph" was turned into a meme, and the single's popularity climbed again largely because of it. In October 2019 the clip surfaced on the US president's own Twitter account: Donald Trump posted a version in which the opening scene had been digitally altered so that Chad Kroeger held up a framed picture of Joe Biden, then a presidential candidate, together with Biden's son Hunter and two unnamed men. A complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act took the post down inside twelve hours. Nickelback made no public response to it. The band did return to the video on its own terms the following year, working with Google on a campaign for the Photos app that parodied the 2005 clip and gave the song fresh lyrics; Kroeger said in a statement that the idea of pairing the song with Google Photos had come from Google.
The closing ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics was held at B.C. Place on 28 February 2010, and the bill was heavily Canadian, Neil Young and Avril Lavigne among those on it. Nickelback performed "Burn It to the Ground" there, and the Georgia Straight, covering the ceremony, described the band as coming from the host province itself.
Silver Side Up came out on September 11, 2001. Nickelback were on the road as the opening act for 3 Doors Down that day, which left them with the job of being the first to address the audience that evening. Chad Kroeger, speaking to Loudwire in 2022, described the atmosphere as strange and eerie and recalled that, going on first, he was the one who had to speak into the microphone before anyone else. He thanked the crowd for turning up and asked to be allowed to serve as a distraction during one of the darkest stretches in American history. According to his account the room eased a little after that, but not for long, and reality returned as soon as the show was over. Only halfway through the day did one of the band members realize their own record had been released that morning; until then all of them had forgotten about it entirely.
The band's performance at the Thanksgiving halftime show ran to under four minutes, by CBC News' account of the Detroit Lions' game against the Green Bay Packers at Ford Field on 24 November 2011. They performed "When We Stand Together," from Here and Now, an album that had gone on sale only that Monday. CBC reported that the field announcer's introduction of the band drew some booing, but that the crowd behaved itself once the music started. Fireworks went off from the stage, a controlled group of fans was let onto the field surrounding it, and drummers, dancers and flag-bearers worked through a choreographed routine. United Way sponsored the show, and the band was not paid for appearing.
On December 15, 2015, Lloyd's of London filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against Nickelback, Nickelback Productions and Chad Kroeger, asking that the singer's policy be rescinded. Behind the filing was the No Fixed Address tour: more than 60 dates were scrapped in June 2015 after Kroeger said he had been diagnosed with a cyst on his vocal cords, and the band submitted a US$13 million claim to Lloyd's for the cancelled shows. The insurer's position was that Kroeger had been diagnosed and treated for the same condition as early as the spring of 2012 and had not disclosed it before the policy was taken out. The band countersued the following year, arguing that the firm was making false allegations about them in order to avoid paying the claim.
Nickelback first came to Japan in May 2002 for a single showcase night in Tokyo. Creativeman Productions, the promoter that brought them over, calls it a premium show in its artist biography and says the tickets were gone five minutes after going on sale. The band's own site posted on 30 May 2002 that they were back from Tokyo, having done a few television appearances, played what it described as the first MTV awards held over there, and sold the show out. A rockinon.com report published on 4 December 2012 adds that, festival appearances included, the band had been to Japan only three times before its Budokan concert that month.
Four of the six Nickelback titles that Warner Music Japan put out in Japan on 12 September 2012 came with an extra song. The six were issued together in a budget reissue line called Roadrage 1800, whose blurb presented it as catalogue albums by leading Roadrunner acts brought back at a lower price: The State (WPCR-14622), Silver Side Up (WPCR-14623), Curb (WPCR-14624), The Long Road (WPCR-14625), All the Right Reasons (WPCR-14626) and Dark Horse (WPCR-14627). The additions run: "Little Friend" on The State, "Learn The Hard Way" on Silver Side Up, an acoustic "Someday" and "Slow Motion" on The Long Road, and "We Will Rock You" plus an acoustic live "Someday" on All the Right Reasons — the Curb and Dark Horse listings carry no such marking at all. Whether the "Little Friend" on The State is the recording that opens Curb, which shares the title, is not something the product pages say.
Nickelback turn up twice in the lineups archived on Summer Sonic's official site, which covers the festival from 2000 onward. In 2010 they were billed on the Marine Stage in Tokyo on 7 August and on the Ocean Stage in Osaka on 8 August, in both cases immediately below Jay-Z and The Offspring. In 2018 they played Osaka on 18 August and Tokyo on 19 August, standing at the head of the Mountain Stage bill at both sites; the festival's own page for that year names Queens of the Stone Age and Nickelback as the acts that headlined that stage.
Creativeman Productions announced the band's 2009 Japanese dates as two nights at Studio Coast in Shinkiba, Tokyo, on 25 and 27 November, doors at 18:00 and stage time at 19:00, with tickets at 8,500 yen going on sale on 10 October; a small number of door tickets at 9,000 yen were set aside for the 27th only. The promoter's own billing described the run as the band's first Japanese concerts, arriving some seven years after a legendary showcase — yet the biography lower down that same page dates the showcase to May 2002 and calls it the band's first visit to the country. Rockinon.com, writing up the 25 November show the next day, treated the night as the first Japanese concert in the seven years since that 2002 debut and reported that both dates had sold out. Sold-out badges sat beside both dates on the promoter's page as well.
Curb, the album Nickelback had put out on their own before signing to Roadrunner, reached Japan as a domestic edition late in 2002: Oricon's database enters it with a release date of 20 November 2002, Roadrunner Japan as the label, the catalogue number RRCY-21180 and twelve tracks. The label had trailed the edition in a news column dated 12 September 2002, where it described what it was releasing as that pre-contract self-released record with a remaster applied.
"Little Friend" closes the Japanese edition of The State, footnoted on Roadrunner Japan's release page as the track added for this market. The same page dates the domestic release to 21 April 2000, gives the catalogue number RRCY-11121 and a price of 2,548 yen including tax, and runs the listing to twelve entries, with an acoustic reading of "Leader of Men" directly before the closer. The label's copy presented the record as the band's arrival in Japan and described them as a Canadian act already drawing notice on their home charts.
Roadrunner Japan's page for the domestic Silver Side Up carries a few lines of band biography in which the label says that The State, their Roadrunner debut, was also the record they debuted with in Japan. The same page dates this release to 21 September 2001, gives RRCY-11155 as the catalogue number and a price of 2,548 yen with tax (2,427 before tax), and marks the eleventh and final track, "Learn the Hard Way," as the bonus for the Japanese pressing. Warner Music Japan's page for the 2012 budget reissue, WPCR-14623, still tags that closing track as a bonus track.
Which bonus tracks a buyer got depended on which of the two Japanese editions of The Long Road they picked, both issued on 17 September 2003. The first-press limited edition, RRCY-29052 at 3,675 yen with tax (3,500 before tax), added "Saturday Night's Alright (for fighting)," "Yanking Out My Heart" and "Learn The Hard Way," and came with a DVD holding five promo videos; Roadrunner Japan's release page describes that DVD-bundled first press as a configuration prepared for Japan alone. The plain edition, RRCY-21195 at 2,548 yen with tax (2,427 before tax), took two additions instead: "Slow Motion" and an acoustic version of "Someday."
When All the Right Reasons first appeared in Japan, the disc included a cover of Queen's "We Will Rock You" as a bonus track. The song shows up again as track 12 of Warner Music Japan's 2012 budget reissue of the album (WPCR-14626, 12 September 2012). It returns once more on the 15th anniversary expanded edition released on 2 October 2020 (WPCR-18348/9), where the label groups it with three other B-sides as bonus material presented in a fresh remaster: acoustic readings of "Photograph", "Too Bad" and "Someday", the last of these given on the track list as a live acoustic take.
Here and Now, the band's seventh studio album, appeared in Japan on 16 November 2011 as WPCR-14280, priced at 2,703 yen including tax. Warner Music Japan presented the domestic edition as arriving ahead of other territories and gave 21 November as the announced release date in the United States. Three live recordings were appended to the Japanese pressing as bonus tracks, sitting at positions 12 to 14 of the running order: "Burn It to the Ground," "Something In Your Mouth" and "Photograph."
The February 2019 Japanese tour amounted to three shows: Zepp Osaka Bayside on the 6th, Zepp Nagoya on the 7th and Nippon Budokan on the 9th. The event page put up by Creativeman Productions, who brought the band over, credits WOWOW as presenter in Osaka and Nagoya and WOWOW with bayfm in Tokyo, with Warner Music Japan listed in support. General ticket sales opened on 24 November 2018. Nagoya had sold out by 19 December, when a further second-floor allocation was put on sale through eplus alone; that allocation went as well.
The Japanese edition of Feed the Machine carries the catalogue number WPCR-17723 and went on sale on 16 June 2017. On Warner Music Japan's product page for it, the third track, "Song on Fire", is annotated with a tie-up: it served as the July ending theme on tvk's Billboard TOP40. The note fixes the month only and attaches no year. The Japanese track listing runs to eleven songs, none of them marked as a bonus track.
The Japanese edition of Get Rollin', catalogue number WPCR-18558, went on sale on 18 November 2022, the same day as the import, priced at 3,080 yen including tax. It runs to sixteen tracks: the eleven-song album, then the four acoustic recordings that the deluxe import already carried — "High Time", "Does Heaven Even Know You're Missing?", "Just One More" and "Horizon" — and finally an acoustic version of "Steel Still Rusts", which the label's track list marks as a bonus track for Japan alone.
Nickelback closed a Japanese tour at Nippon Budokan on 9 February 2019. A live report BARKS published five days later describes Ryan Peake at a piano for "Lullaby", with imagery of light running on the LED screen behind the band. The same passage has Chad Kroeger ranging across the stage and thanking the audience in Japanese, and counts the back-and-forth with Peake among the things that make the group worth watching live.
BARKS reported on 20 October 2009 that a Japan-only tour edition of Dark Horse, pairing the album with a bonus DVD, was set for release on 25 November — the same day as the first of two Tokyo shows at STUDIO COAST, the second falling on 27 November. The announcement described a digipak package with an enlarged booklet, catalogue number RRCY-29197/8, priced at 2,980 yen including tax. The DVD was to carry four video clips — "Gotta Be Somebody," "I'd Come For You," "If Today Was Your Last Day" and "Burn It to the Ground" — alongside three live performances filmed for the VH1 channel: "Burn It to the Ground," "Something In Your Mouth" and "Animals." A slip entering the buyer in a giveaway for a Gibson guitar signed by the band was also announced as part of the package.
The Nippon Budokan concert on 3 December 2012 was the closing night of the world tour behind Here and Now. Rockinon.com's report of the show called it the band's first headline visit to Japan in three years — the previous one, in 2009, had been at Studio Coast, with a Summer Sonic appearance following in 2010 — and described a hall packed with fans as far up as the top of the second tier. The set opened with "This Means War" and closed with an encore of "Gotta Be Somebody" and "Burn It to the Ground", and the stage talk during the night reached for two Budokan-adjacent records, Cheap Trick's At Budokan and Deep Purple's Live in Japan.
The band's 9 February 2019 show at Nippon Budokan closed their Japanese tour, and the official report carried by BARKS records it as their first night at the hall since 2012. The set opened with the title track of Feed the Machine, their newest album at the time, and the printed setlist runs on through "Photograph", "Far Away", "Hero" and "Someday" before the main set ends on "How You Remind Me". Ryan Peake took the piano for "Lullaby", and two fans were brought up on stage to sing during "Rockstar". Two songs made up the encore: "Million Miles an Hour", then "Burn It to the Ground".
Chad Kroeger's own first-person biography on the band's site, signed off with his name, dates the start to 1996: he wrote ten songs and talked Ryan Peake, his brother Mike and his cousin Brandon into recording them with him in Vancouver, and that is where Nickelback began. Warner Music Japan's official profile matches both the year and the family relationship, describing the 1996 move to Vancouver by the two Kroegers, who grew up in Hanna, Alberta, and Peake, who grew up in nearby Brooks, and naming Chad's cousin Brandon Kroeger as the band's first drummer. The Canada's Walk of Fame inductee page tells it differently, counting Brandon as one of three Kroeger brothers and giving 1995 as the year the band formed.
Mike Kroeger's page on the early official site was not written as prose. It was a list of labelled fields, and among them were Position: bass, Education: removed self from music school, and Status: straight-edge. His gear was given as Warwick, Tobias and Zon basses with Mesa Boogie and Samson amplification. The remaining lines ran to his dog (a German shepherd), his vehicle (a 1996 Dodge diesel 4wd) and the film in his favourites column, Big Lebowski. That is how the page stood when the site was archived on 9 March 2001.
Ryan Vikedal, the band's drummer at the time, wrote his own page for the official site and opened it by telling readers they could call him NIK. By his own account he had been drumming for 14 years, the most recent two and a half of them with Nickelback, and it had started in 1986 in Brooks, Alberta. He then moved to Edmonton, where the first gig he found was with the Corb Lund Band, a group he noted was still active. The page also has him listening to a great deal of jazz and spending his time off on hockey, golf and PlayStation. This is the site as archived on 9 March 2001.
The bio section of the early official site ran five names, not four. After Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger and Ryan Vikedal came Chief, the band's tour manager and live sound engineer, given a page laid out exactly like the players'. The site described him as handling the day-to-day scheduling, together with press set-ups, the book work, the money, merchandise, soundcheck, and the advancing and settling of every show. It also credits him with a page of his own, ASK CHIEF, for questions about live sound and touring, and notes that his main hobby on the road was hockey, played in any lit parking lot with the tour bus serving as the backstop.
Nickelback's own site once ran a profile page for Ryan Peake, and the Internet Archive's capture of 4 May 2001 preserves what it said. Three electrics are listed there for stage use — a '57 Telecaster, a '99 Telecaster and a '99 Les Paul Custom — with Mesa Boogie named as the only amplifier brand he plays. His job in the band is given as rhythm guitar and backup vocals; as of that capture the page put his time on the instrument at thirteen years and dated his turn professional to four years earlier, when Nickelback was formed. Blue Rodeo, Tool, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Faith No More and the Police are the influences it printed.
Roadrunner's official biography presents Daniel Adair as a drummer who arrived just in time to play on All the Right Reasons. It describes his style as powerful without being one-dimensional and sets "Animals" against "If Everyone Cared" as the two contrasting examples of that range. The same passage adds a detail about how he came in: what the label calls his audition, played at Chad Kroeger's studio, ended up on the finished album. Which track it survives on, and where, the bio does not say.
The lineup set out in BMG's announcement of 25 January 2017 runs Chad Kroeger on lead vocals and guitars, Ryan Peake on guitars and backing vocals, Mike Kroeger on bass, and Daniel Adair on drums and backing vocals. What the label announced that day was a worldwide recording agreement with the band, who by then were already in the studio, assembling material for a full-length album to come out through BMG.
604 Records was not planned, according to the account the label publishes on its own site. Jonathan Simkin, then Nickelback's attorney, was in Los Angeles pitching Theory of a Deadman, a band Chad Kroeger had discovered, when someone at Atlantic asked whether what was being offered was the band or Simkin's own label. Simkin answered that it was the label, and the label took shape out of that crossed wire. The same page dates the beginnings to 2001 in its text while a panel elsewhere on it describes the company as independent since 2002. By the time the venture was announced in June 2002, Theory of a Deadman had been named its first signing, with Roadrunner Records handling distribution in the United States and Universal Music Canada handling Canada.
On 26 August 2022 BMG confirmed it would release Nickelback's next studio album — the band's tenth, and their second for the label. BMG said enquiries from fans had poured in after the band posted a series of teasers on its social accounts, and that the title and release details would follow separately; neither was given in the announcement itself. Nickelback had signed a global recording deal with BMG in 2017, covering the ninth album, Feed the Machine. The executive quoted in the release was Jason Hradil, then BMG's EVP, New York and SVP International Marketing.
When the band's own direct-to-consumer store was checked on 19 August 2026 it was taking pre-orders for Everything Under The Sun: a 140-gram twelve-inch gatefold LP, a standard CD, a store-only alternate-cover CD, a cassette and a signed alternate-cover LP. Its product copy called the record the eleventh Nickelback studio album and gave the announced release date as 30 October 2026.
The record deal Chad Kroeger describes signing at 24 covered the master recordings of The State, an album he calls "our second effort". His account of it sits in the first-person biography he wrote for the band's own website, where he adds that he had been touring ever since; the text of that page names no label at all.
Roadrunner Records' official biography accounts for All the Right Reasons by an artist's need to make something, and has the album's title follow from that account of where the record came from. The title is a play on "Fight For All the Wrong Reasons", one of the album's own songs.
Nickelback's own website posted short progress notes while the band's third album was being made. On 4 April 2001 the site recorded that possible titles and ideas for the artwork were being floated, at a point when no producer had been chosen. By 6 June the site reported that recording would finish on 8 June, that about a dozen songs had been laid down with the final selection still open, and that Randy Staub would mix the record. The same post called Silver Side Up a working title that was not yet settled, and said the artwork was in place and would be completed shortly.
Four acoustic versions of songs from Get Rollin' come with the album on the deluxe CD that Nickelback's own store sells, and the store's product page describes the package as an eight-panel digipak with foil stamping on the front cover. That description was read on 20 August 2026; a store can revise its own product copy at any time.
Roadrunner's own artist biography describes a short session: the band cut Silver Side Up in five weeks at Vancouver's Green House studio, the same room that had produced The State, with Rick Parashar (Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog) in the producer's chair. The finished material then went to Randy Staub (Metallica, U2), who mixed it at The Armory. A later account, in the Canadian magazine FACES, places the sessions in the spring of 2001, credits the album to the band co-producing alongside Parashar, and names Ryan Vikedal as the drummer on it.
For their fourth album, All the Right Reasons, Nickelback worked in Chad Kroeger's own studio outside Vancouver and shared the production with a friend, Joey Moi. Roadrunner's official biography names those two circumstances together — the room was theirs, the co-producer was a friend — as the reason nothing about the sessions was hurried: the band put seven months into the eleven songs until each one sat where they wanted it. By the same account the work began during what was meant to be time off, when Kroeger, Mike Kroeger and Ryan Peake found themselves writing again two weeks into the break and gathered at the studio to jam.
Warner Music Japan issued the domestic edition as WPCR-17723 on 16 June 2017 and presented it as a simultaneous worldwide release; BMG's own announcement of the album carries the same date. Feed the Machine was the band's ninth studio album and was recorded in Vancouver. In that announcement guitarist Ryan Peake set out what the title track, which was also the lead single, deals with: thinking for yourself rather than taking at face value what you are told.
The deluxe CD edition of Get Rollin' sold through the band's own store is an eight-panel digipak with foil stamping on the front cover, and it adds four acoustic versions of songs from the album as bonus tracks: "High Time," "Does Heaven Even Know You're Missing?," "Just One More" and "Horizon." The store's product copy presents the record as Nickelback's tenth studio album and their first in five years. The four acoustic tracks were named well before the record reached shops: BMG listed all four by title in its announcement of 7 September 2022.
The seven-inch single of "Devil Went Down to Georgia" in the band's official store is credited not to Nickelback but to five people by name: Chad Kroeger, Dave Martone, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger and Daniel Adair. The store does use the band name where it applies — the "Rockstar Sea Shanty" seven-inch listed beside it is billed to Nickelback & the Lottery Winners. The cover of the Charlie Daniels Band song appeared on 14 August 2020, and Loudwire described Dave Martone as a Canadian guitarist and producer whose credits include work with Marty Friedman and Yngwie Malmsteen. Neither store listing gives a release date, a label or a B-side.
Chad Kroeger's name is attached to "Let Me Go", and the billing was put out on Avril Lavigne's own site. A post dated 15 October 2013 said the song had gone up on iTunes and sent readers to VEVO to watch its video, which the post described as featuring Kroeger. The date had been trailed a week earlier: an 8 October post carried the title and a single line naming 15 October as the iTunes date. A panel on the same page lists the track as "Let Me Go Featuring Chad Kroeger", with iTunes given as the place to buy it.
Nickelback's label pointed to "Good Times Gone" as the clearest sign that Silver Side Up had reached past the band's earlier sound. The track carries guest slide guitar by Ian Thornley of Big Wreck, and Roadrunner's official biography describes his playing on it as spontaneous rather than mapped out. In the same passage the label credits the pairing of producer Rick Parashar and mixer Randy Staub for opening the record up, and names this song as the case in point.
Nickelback first met ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons backstage after a show in Colorado. When the band decided that "Follow You Home", on All the Right Reasons, needed a guitar solo, they asked Gibbons to play it and travelled to Los Angeles to cut the part. In the same official Roadrunner biography Chad Kroeger says Gibbons did not stop at the solo: he also sang the song's third verse in his low, rough voice, with a distortion effect placed over it. Gibbons appears a second time on the record as well, adding backing vocals to "Rockstar". Loudwire quotes Kroeger saying that nothing in "Rockstar" is autobiographical, and that the words take what people picture about life as a rock star and exaggerate it.
Nickelback's answer to a petition aimed at them took the form of a video. On 22 November 2011 an item headed "Nickelback Responds To NFL Petition" went up in the news section of the band's official site; its body was simply an embedded video player, introduced by a single line describing the band sitting down to work out why everyone in Detroit hates Nickelback, and tagged #nickelback2detroit. What the petition actually asked for is not stated anywhere on the page - the only word about it is "NFL" in the headline. Two other items in the same news section announced the band's appearance at the United Way Thanksgiving halftime show during the Detroit Lions v Green Bay Packers game on 24 November, televised by FOX.
Four stages carried the documentary from a festival screening to a disc in the band's own store. Hate to Love: Nickelback was programmed in the Gala Presentations strand of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival as a world premiere, and Loudwire reported that the screening took place on September 8. Cinemas came next: on 15 February 2024, Trafalgar Releasing, Gimme Sugar Productions and Submarine Entertainment announced two nights only, 27 and 30 March, with a planned reach of more than 1,350 locations across 30 countries. On 1 April 2024, with that weekend of showings in 30 countries described as already past, a streaming premiere was set for Veeps on 12 April. As of August 2026 the band's store lists a deluxe Blu-ray mediabook edition whose exclusive contents are a 20-page booklet and a reel of outtakes.
Only two of the four bonus features on the Japanese DVD of Live At Sturgis are noted as carrying Japanese subtitles: a tour documentary of about seventeen minutes, built from backstage footage, interviews and other material, and a five-minute piece introducing Sturgis, where the concert was held, and the Rockin' The Rally festival staged there. The other two are a gallery presenting live photographs as a moving slideshow and the music video for "Rockstar." Warner Music Japan's page lists twelve items in the programme itself and dates the disc, catalogue RRBY-21026, to 28 January 2009 at 3,981 yen including tax.
The band's own site credited the video for "How You Remind Me" to The Brother's Strausse — the site's own spelling — with Linkin Park and Powerman 5000 named beside them. The credit appears in a news item of July 24, 2001, which said the clip for the first single would be shot that weekend, across two days, and should reach MTV and MuchMusic by the middle of August. A second item, dated August 21, reported the video starting to pick up airplay ahead of the September 11 release of Silver Side Up, and passed the premiere along as hearsay rather than confirmation: word had it that MTV had run the clip for the first time the previous night, August 20. Regular rotation on MTV2 was set to begin on August 23.
The two halves of the "Too Bad" video were filmed on separate days, both of them in Vancouver. A post on the band's site dated November 1, 2001 reported the band performance footage as already done, shot over the preceding weekend. Another, dated November 19, said the plot footage — the part that did not require the band on set — was being filmed that day in the same city.
Jerry Cantrell, formerly of Alice in Chains, guests on "It Ain't Like That," the eleventh item on Live At Home, according to the footnote against that track on Roadrunner Japan's page for the domestic DVD. The disc went on sale on 6 November 2002 as RRBY-21003 at 5,040 yen including tax, and the page places the filmed concert at the Skyreach Centre in Edmonton, during the touring that followed Silver Side Up. Which night was filmed is not settled by the label's own pages: the release page gives 22 January 2002 while a news column of 12 September 2002 gives 25 January.
JVC Company of America announced on 26 September 2003 that Nickelback would front a national branding campaign, timed so that its launch coincided with the release of The Long Road. The band's part of it centred on a print advertisement showing all four members, with broadcast, outdoor and internet placements and tour sponsorship promised alongside. JVC pitched the campaign at 25-to-34-year-olds and built it around its then-new worldwide tagline, "The Perfect Experience", with each featured figure talking about a formative experience of their own. Jerry Bruckheimer and Lisa Loeb were among the other names attached. The release was hosted on the band's own website.
The video for "Rockstar", a hit from All the Right Reasons, is picked out on the inductee page that Canada's Walk of Fame keeps for the band, which describes it as notable for the number of well-known figures who appear mouthing along to the song. Kid Rock, Gene Simmons, Ted Nugent, John Rich, Nelly Furtado and Lupe Fiasco are the names it gives, offered as examples rather than as a full list of who appears.
All the Right Reasons reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated October 22, 2005 — the week it entered — held the top spot for one week, and as of August 20, 2026 its running total on that chart stands at 206 weeks. The band's first album, Curb, occupies a single line in the same table: one week, on the chart dated July 13, 2002, at No. 182, which is also listed as its peak. Billboard's summary boxes for the band count 11 titles on the Billboard 200, one No. 1 and seven top-10 entries, and three of those titles — Dark Horse, Silver Side Up and Here and Now — are listed at a peak of No. 2, each entering at that position.
As of August 20, 2026, Billboard's chart history credits The Best Of Nickelback: Volume 1 with 305 weeks on the Billboard 200 — a running total that continues to move. The compilation entered that chart at No. 21 on the chart dated December 7, 2013, and Billboard gives the same week as its peak, so No. 21 is both where it arrived and the highest placing on its row.
A June 9, 1999 item on the band's own news page reports that MuchMusic put the video for "Leader of Men" into regular rotation after repeated requests from viewers; the video itself, the page says, had come out in early May. The same item goes on to claim two placements for the album: the Vancouver Province indie top five, compiled courtesy of the HMV Records store on Robson, listed The State at No. 1, and Nickelback had become the best-selling independent act at that Vancouver store. Both are the band's own account of its standing at the time.
Billboard's chart history puts the peak of The State at No. 130, on the chart dated September 23, 2000, and gives 18 weeks on the Billboard 200 in total; the album had entered on the chart dated August 26, 2000. No release date appears anywhere on the page — the debut is a chart date, the week the album reached the Billboard 200, not the day it went on sale.
"Rockstar" arrived on the Official Singles Chart at 64 on the chart dated 27 October 2007 and moved up week by week from there — 58, then 45, 34 and 20 — with the Official Charts Company giving number two as its peak. "How You Remind Me" is listed at a peak of number four on the same singles chart, while its page separately records twelve weeks at number one on the Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart. On the albums side, Silver Side Up reached number one on the chart dated 23 March 2002 and was still there the following week, two weeks at the top in total.
Silver Side Up occupies nine rows in Music Canada's database, one for each level it passed, each carrying its own date. Three of them — Gold, Platinum and Double Platinum — carry one date, 1 October 2001. The ladder then runs through Triple Platinum on 19 November 2001, Quadruple on 11 December 2001, Quintuple on 27 February 2002, Six Times on 30 April 2002 and Seven Times on 4 October 2002, reaching Eight Times Platinum on 1 April 2004. EMI is the label named on all nine.
Dark Horse occupies ten rows in Music Canada's database, and they are not all credited to the same company. Gold, Platinum, Double and Triple Platinum share the date 26 November 2008; Quadruple follows on 27 February 2009, Quintuple on 31 July 2009 and Six Times Platinum on 12 April 2010, each credited to EMI. Seven, Eight and Nine Times Platinum all carry the date 30 October 2023, and the label column on those three reads IGNITE MUSIC FUND II SPE I LP. The database prints that name and no account of it.
The highest position Nickelback has reached on Oricon's weekly album chart in Japan is number 8, set by Here and Now, which the chart body lists with a release date of 16 November 2011. Oricon's album sales page for the band covers titles that have entered the weekly album top 50 since the chart dated 5 October 1987 and has room for the twenty best sellers among them; only eight Nickelback albums qualify, and Here and Now is the only one inside the top ten. The rest peak at 14 for Feed the Machine, 15 for No Fixed Address, 17 for Dark Horse, 19 for the compilation The Best of Nickelback Volume 1, 20 for Get Rollin', 26 for All the Right Reasons and 29 for The Long Road in its special limited edition. Here and Now is credited with 19 chart appearances, a figure Oricon defines on the same page as weeks spent inside the weekly album top 300.
Feed the Machine entered the German album chart at number six. It also debuted at six in Sweden and at ten in Norway, with number twelve in Italy, sixteen in both Belgium and the Netherlands, and eighteen in Poland. BMG stated that Nickelback were the only act from outside Germany in the German top ten at that point.
Get Rollin' was released on 18 November 2022 and entered the Swiss chart at number one — a first for the band, according to BMG. In the United States it opened at number two on Top Hard Rock Albums, three on Independent Albums, four on Top Alternative Albums and 30 on the Billboard 200. In Australia it debuted at number three on the ARIA Top 50 Albums chart for the week of 28 November 2022, and the album also reached the top ten in the UK, Canada, Germany and Austria.
Catherine O'Hara, Gordon Pinsent and Jill Hennessy appear further down the Canada's Walk of Fame inductee page for Nickelback, listed as fellow inductees of 2007 — the year that page gives for the band's own induction, in labelled fields that also record Arts & Entertainment as the pillar of achievement, 1995 as the year formed and Hanna, Alberta as the place of formation. The prose below those fields has a band that started out in that small Alberta town before moving its base to Vancouver, British Columbia.
At the 46th ceremony, the Best Rock Song entry for "Someday" carries four names in its nominee field — Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and Ryan “Nik” Vikedal — and it sits on the artist page Grammy.com keeps for Kroeger separately from the band's, not among the five listed on Nickelback's own. That personal page shows nine nominations and no wins, four of them at the 45th ceremony: three are for "Hero", one of those listed under the title "Hero (From Spider-Man)", with Kroeger credited alone or jointly with Josey Scott.
The JUNO Awards site keeps a Top 100 Winners table of the country's most-decorated artists. Read on 20 August 2026, it places Nickelback ninth with 13 wins from 40 nominations, behind Anne Murray on 26, The Weeknd on 22 and Bryan Adams on 21. Seven acts share that total of 13, filling ranks 9 through 15: Nickelback, Jim Cuddy, Shawn Mendes, Shania Twain, Bruce Cockburn, Sarah McLachlan and Gordon Lightfoot. The same 13 wins were given a different position by the band's label BMG, whose press release dated 7 February 2024 put them tenth among all JUNO winners. The table is generated from the awards database and reorders itself whenever anyone else wins, so an ordinal read from it belongs to the day it was read.
Songwriter of the Year at the 2003 JUNO Awards went to Nickelback. The winning row in the awards' official database credits two linked names side by side, the band and Chad Kroeger, rather than assigning the award to one or the other. Three songs are listed against it: "Hero", credited there to Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott, together with "Too Bad" and "How You Remind Me" under the band's name. The works column of that row spells the band "Nickleback". One other 2003 entry appears for the group, the TD JUNO Fan Choice award, and that one is marked as a nomination only.
Forty entries carry Nickelback's name in the JUNO Awards database, thirteen of them wins. The first arrived in 2001 for Best New Group, and twelve of the thirteen fall between that year and 2009. From 2010 onward the competitive categories produced nominations only: Rock Album of the Year for No Fixed Address in 2016, for Feed the Machine in 2018 and for Get Rollin' in 2023, none of which sits among the rows the database marks as won. The single win recorded in that later stretch is the 2023 induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The most recent entry of any kind is a Group of the Year nomination for 2024; read on 20 August 2026, the counter on the band's profile page showed no nominations for 2026.
Canada's Walk of Fame files Nickelback under its Arts & Entertainment pillar, in the Music category, and gives the induction year as 2007. The same inductee entry records 1995 as the year the group formed and Hanna, Alberta as the place it formed. These were the values the entry carried when it was read on 20 August 2026; the page itself shows no publication or revision date.
The clip for "Photograph" is credited on MuchMusic's own list of 2006 MuchMusic Video Awards winners to director Nigel Dick, producer Nina Dluhy and the production company A Band Apart, with EMI as the label, and it is marked there as the winner of MuchLOUD Best Rock Video. Nickelback appears twice more on the same list without that marking: under Best Video, again with "Photograph", where the winner given is Kardinal Offishall f. Ray Robinson, and under People's Choice: Favourite Canadian Group, an award for the act rather than for a clip, where the winner given is Simple Plan. The list was read in its Internet Archive capture on 20 August 2026.
The American Music Awards' official winners database holds two entries for Nickelback: Pop/Rock Album in 2006 and Pop/Rock Group in 2007. Its results table has only three columns — year, category and winner — so no work title appears even in album categories; the Soul/R&B Album row for the same year likewise shows the artist name alone. For the 2006 album prize, Loudwire has written that the record honored in the pop/rock album category was All the Right Reasons. (Database accessed August 19, 2026.)
The Billboard Music Awards run a public winners database covering the ceremonies from 1990 through 2023, and a search on the band's name returns seven entries. Three are from 2006: Artist-Duo/Group of the Year, Hot 100 Artist-Duo/Group of the Year, and Rock Album of the Year for All the Right Reasons. The other four are from 2002, and three of those attach to one song, "How You Remind Me" — Hot 100 Single of the Year, Hot 100 Airplay Single of the Year and Top 40 Track of the Year — with Hot 100 Singles Group/Duo of the Year going to the band itself. The database indexes winners only, so nominations do not appear in it.
On November 5, 2001 a short statement appeared in the news column of the band's official site under the heading "Nickelback and Salt Lake". It apologized to people in Salt Lake City for a cancelled show, pointing out that the members are human and that illness happens. The band then set out its own record: two shows called off across the previous four years, both of them because someone was ill. The item added that cancelling is never the intention, and that the touring schedule meant no return to the city until the following year. It was signed NB.
A tour diary posted on the band's official site on January 23, 2002 sets two very different scenes from the same Canadian run. On the Sunday the band was let onto the ice with the Vancouver Canucks after the team's practice — Jarko Ruutu, Jason Strudwick and the Sedin twins are named, and head coach Marc Crawford spoke with them — and that same evening Nickelback played a show in the very building they had just skated in, GM Place. The post then turns to an overnight drive: a semi hauling logs, its driver having fallen asleep, veered clear of the first gear truck and hit the second, breaking its rear-view mirror and windshield. The semi did not stop, and the band's driver spent the next two hours in −30 conditions with no windshield in front of him.
Ten minutes was the length the NFL announced for the halftime slot as a whole Nickelback had been booked into, in an announcement posted on its own site on 11 November 2011. The item called the segment the 2011 United Way Thanksgiving Halftime Show, set at the Thanksgiving game the Detroit Lions were to host against the Green Bay Packers, and credited the sports and entertainment company e2k with producing the show each year. By its own count, this was the thirteenth season in which United Way had worked with the league on the Thanksgiving halftime show, inside a partnership between the two organisations then in its thirty-eighth year. Lauren Alaina, runner-up on the tenth season of American Idol, was named to sing the national anthem, and Kid Rock, Mariah Carey, Bon Jovi, Mary J. Blige and John Mellencamp were among the acts it listed as having filled the slot before.
For its 2023 edition, the Toronto International Film Festival announced that Nickelback would take the Festival Street Music Stage on September 8. Festival Street is the festival's free open-air programme, held on a stretch of King Street West opened to the general public, and that year it ran from September 7 to 10. TIFF's own announcement described the appearance as promotion for the premiere of the band's Gala Presentation documentary, Hate to Love: Nickelback. The official event listing scheduled the slot from 7pm to 8pm.
The live album Live From Nashville documents a sold-out show at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville during the 2023 Get Rollin' Tour; Blabbermouth dates that concert to August 2023. The track list BMG printed at release runs to 18 songs, five of them shared with guests: "Savin' Me" with Chris Daughtry, a cover of Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road" with Brantley Gilbert and Josh Ross, "Flower Shops" with ERNEST, "Rockstar" with Bailey Zimmerman, and "SOLD OUT" with HARDY. The running order published when the album was announced in September 2024 had 19 tracks, among them "Don't Look Back In Anger" with The Lottery Winners.
The bonus disc on the 15th anniversary expanded edition of All the Right Reasons (WPCR-18348/9, 2 October 2020) is a twelve-song live recording made on 8 August 2006, when the band appeared at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, the gathering held each year in Sturgis, South Dakota. Warner Music Japan states that this is the same audio as the video release issued that year on DVD as Live at Sturgis. The performance opens with "Intro/Animals" and ends with "Figured You Out", taking in "Photograph", "Far Away" and "Savin' Me" along the way.
Two Japanese dates were set for the 2015 No Fixed Address Tour: 30 May at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (東京体育館) and 2 June at Zepp Namba in Osaka. Universal Music Japan posted the arrangements the day before the Tokyo show — doors at 6pm and stage time at 7pm at both venues, with tickets at 9,500 yen for reserved seating in Tokyo and, in Osaka, 9,500 yen to stand on the first floor or 10,500 yen for a reserved second-floor seat. The same dates and venues had already appeared in the label's announcement of the visit on 27 February. The Tokyo concert went ahead on the announced date; a live report of it survives with the setlist, describing the run as the tour behind No Fixed Address.
Nickelback's 2015 came apart in stages. In June, doctors found an operable cyst on Chad Kroeger's voice box, and the band called off the rest of the second North American leg of the No Fixed Address tour, saying at the time that the run would pick up again in Europe at Helsinki's Hartwall Arena on 30 September. It never did. On 13 August the band's own website announced that every remaining 2015 date was cancelled: Kroeger had come through surgery, but his doctors had ordered six to nine months of vocal rest for a full recovery. The scrapped schedule stretched from the Helsinki show through December across Europe, and ticket holders were directed back to their point of purchase for refunds.
The Get Rollin' Tour was announced on 23 January 2023: a Live Nation-produced North American run of 38 cities, scheduled to open on 12 June at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City and finish on 30 August at UBS Arena in Belmont Park, New York, with tickets going on sale that 27 January. Brantley Gilbert was billed for every non-festival date, joined by Josh Ross. On 8 June the band announced 16 further shows, taking the advertised itinerary to 53 cities; the last of the added dates printed was 5 October at the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota.
A challenge from another British Columbia band brought a $50,000 pledge out of Nickelback. Pardon My Striptease, from Chilliwack, had written the charity single "Pray (For L.J.)" for Lilee-Jean Putt, a one-year-old with cancer; the track landed on the iTunes rock singles chart just below Nickelback, and the band used local media to challenge their better-known province-mates to match the money it raised. On 8 December 2011 Nickelback answered on their own website, saying they would donate $50,000 to BC Children's Hospital and inviting the Vancouver Province and the Vancouver Sun to each match the pledge as well. Chad Kroeger, speaking for the band, said the case had struck home because it was happening in their own backyard.
Nickelback used a news item on their own site, dated May 15, 2001, to set out where the summer stood. The band had been formally invited over to play the European festivals, but the foot-and-mouth outbreak had put every one of them on hold, and there was nothing to do but wait and see. The State had gone on sale in Europe the week before, and recording of the next album was already a little over two weeks old, with six tracks finished.
Asked why Nickelback had lasted, Ryan Peake answered in terms of friendship rather than ability, in remarks carried by an iHeart Radio Canada interview and reported by Blabbermouth on 29 March 2024. By his account the line-up of that period was three players out of Hanna plus a cousin from Camrose, to the north, with the drum stool changing hands more than once afterwards. Growing up and playing together in a small town, he said, produced a bond, and knowing each other that well is what tells them when to apply pressure and when to leave space. He was blunt about the musicianship: not the most talented players, in his telling, but something worked once they got into a room together.
Hanna, the Alberta town Chad Kroeger grew up in, had roughly 3,000 people and sat two hours from the nearest city — his own description of it, given to Classic Rock in 2005. Being that far from anywhere limited what music arrived: if one person brought an album back, the whole town knew about it, and because records meant a trip to the city, what the band took in was whatever the radio played, which in Kroeger's house was country and western. Local gigs could be had but led nowhere, he said, so there was no choice but to leave — getting a band off the ground in Hanna was, by his account, impossible, and that is why they moved to Vancouver.
Friends who had left Hanna for other towns were asked to keep requesting the band at the stations where they now lived; that, according to Classic Rock, is how Nickelback built its radio play. The same article has the group spending four years in its early days moving between venues across North America and handling its own record distribution and its own bookings in the gaps between shows, with Chad Kroeger's brother Mike on bass and Ryan Vikedal on drums — Daniel Adair replaced Vikedal later.
Ryan Vikedal was not Nickelback's first drummer. Billboard, reporting his departure on 27 January 2005, dated his tenure from 1998 and named two predecessors: Mitch Guindon, and before him Brandon Kroeger, who went back to the group's earliest days. How Brandon is related to Chad Kroeger depends on which source you read — Billboard calls him another Kroeger sibling, while Chad's own profile on the band's website described him as a cousin. The band has also disputed the standard account of Guindon's exit. Playing Loudwire's "Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?" in 2017, they rejected the claim that he left to take a job at a car company and said they had let him go instead. By Chad Kroeger's account, Guindon was allergic to cold air and unsuited to life on the road: once the tour reached the middle of Canada in winter his skin reacted badly, and he told them he could not keep going.
Virgin Music Group is the company named in the announcement of 14 July 2026 for Everything Under The Sun, which the announcement calls the band's first release with that firm. The album before it, Get Rollin', had come out in November 2022 through BMG. A comment on the new partnership from Jacqueline Saturn, Virgin Music Group's president for North America, accompanied the announcement. The move was still an announced arrangement as of August 2026.
Twelve songs make up Everything Under The Sun, the studio album Nickelback announced on 14 July 2026 as the follow-up to Get Rollin', which they released in 2022. The announcement set the release for 30 October 2026 and put "Rattle The Cage" at the head of the running order; that song went out to streaming services the same day. As of August 2026 the October date was an announced plan and the album had not yet appeared.
Eleven songs long, No Fixed Address was the first Nickelback album released under the band's new deal with Republic Records, and its title comes from the way it was made. Chad Kroeger told Loudwire that the work ran more than a year, on and off, and that Los Angeles, Maui and Vancouver each meant a rented house to hit record in. To The Pulse of Radio he traced the name to the same thing: recording in Vancouver, Los Angeles and Maui, and taking a portable rig along on a European tour to record there as well.
Curb, released in 1996, was Nickelback's first full-length album. Four of its songs came from the Hesher EP, which had appeared two months earlier, and were carried over in remastered or re-recorded form. Only one track, "Fly," was issued as a single. Another song from the album, "Just Four," was later re-recorded under the new title "Just For" and turned up on Silver Side Up in 2001.
London Bridge Studio in Seattle, which Rick Parashar set up with his brother Raj, became a focal point of the grunge movement in the early 1990s. Parashar, who had produced Pearl Jam's Ten, went on to produce Silver Side Up, and his later credits include 3 Doors Down's Away From the Sun. The cause of his death, on 14 August 2014 at the age of 50, was a pulmonary embolism brought on by a blood clot in his leg.
For a while the lead single from Silver Side Up was going to be "Never Again" rather than "How You Remind Me." Chad Kroeger has said the band nearly went that way because they found "Never Again" so forceful, adding the reservation that they may also have been wary of showing a different side of Nickelback. Ryan Peake had no strong instinct about it either: most bands, he notes, put out a record with some idea of which track radio will pick up, and Nickelback had no such conviction. The stakes were plain enough. The band had sold roughly half a million records to that point and saw the album as make-or-break, with a label that had already spent heavily on the previous record — Peake describes it as being handed half a chance more than the single shot a band normally gets.
Randy Staub mixed The Long Road at The Warehouse in downtown Vancouver on an SSL 4072 console, Joey Moi is credited as engineer and co-producer, and George Marino did the mastering at Sterling Sound. According to a Mix studio feature published in November 2003, this was the first album Nickelback produced on its own: the plan had been to bring in outside producers for the key singles, and what undid it, the magazine writes, was the band's own procrastination combined with how warmly the label took to the demos.
A hayloft became the upstairs mixing room, complete with a vocal booth, and horse stalls downstairs became the rehearsal and recording space. Chad Kroeger, tired of an hour-long commute and wanting a facility of his own, had bought the gear out of the A room at Greenhouse Studios — where The Long Road was already under way — and moved the work into his converted barn. Co-producer Joey Moi's account is that the contractor was given thirty days for the conversion; Mix states separately that the build took thirty-five. Two and a half months of the album were cut at Greenhouse, a week went on the changeover, and the last few weeks were done at the barn, Mountain View Studios.
Over a hundred tracks of audio sit inside "Someday", among them a mandolin that Chad Kroeger said no listener will ever pick out. He named it as the track the band concentrated on the most while making The Long Road. The acoustic guitar that stays audible through the dense mix was a Gibson Jumbo, taken unamplified through two microphones, a Coles ribbon and a Neumann M147. Having the room to build up layers and textures was, by Kroeger's account, the thing this album allowed that none of the band's earlier ones had. Mix printed all of it in its November 2003 studio feature.
Aerosmith's Pump, Mötley Crüe's Dr. Feelgood, The Cult's Sonic Temple, Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet and parts of Metallica's black album were all recorded on one SSL console, and by the time Mix ran its studio feature in November 2003 that board belonged to Chad Kroeger. The magazine traced it back to Little Mountain, the downtown Vancouver studio it associates with Bruce Fairbairn and Bob Rock; that studio was later moved out to suburban Burnaby and renamed Greenhouse Studios, which is where recording for The Long Road began.
It was the chorus of "Savin' Me" that would not come. Chad Kroeger has said the verses satisfied him, and that for as long as the chorus stayed unresolved he hated the All the Right Reasons track outright; once it was finally in place he came round, and he now says he likes it. He has named it the hardest song Nickelback ever had to write. How long the hold-up lasted varies with the telling: Louder has him spending a month on that one song, while a separate account relayed by Songfacts puts it at six weeks.
Mutt Lange produced Dark Horse. Asked by Classic Rock why the band brought in someone of that stature when they had made the previous album on their own, Chad Kroeger said he had long told the rest of the band the same thing: they could carry on self-producing, but if Lange ever showed any interest in working with them, Kroeger would hand him the controls without hesitation. Kroeger also described what Lange was like to be around. He called him an introvert rather than a recluse, and a serious sports fan who needed a game on in the control room at all times. They watched so much of it, Kroeger said, that he came away able to account for every Olympic gold medal that had been handed out.
Nickelback produced their seventh album, Here and Now, themselves at Mountain View Studios, without bringing in an outside producer. Roadrunner announced the record on September 8, 2011 for a November 21 release, and laid out the rollout in the same announcement: "Bottoms Up" going to rock radio and "When We Stand Together" to pop radio on September 26, both available to buy from the 27th, with a world tour to begin in early 2012. Chad Kroeger's comment accompanying the announcement was that the band had walked into the studio that year with a clear vision and that it had all come together, and that he was impatient to put the results in front of the band's audience.
While the band was cutting tracks for its ninth studio album, the follow-up to 2014's No Fixed Address, they broke off to play a song they all liked: Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry". Rather than let the spur-of-the-moment take sit unused, they put it out on Spotify in August 2016. The original dates from 1982 and was written and produced by Henley with Danny Kortchmar. Kroeger has said that starting work on a Nickelback record is a daunting job, and that because the members' musical tastes run in such different directions, a good deal of it comes down to keeping everyone content.
Nickelback co-produced Feed the Machine with Chris Baseford. Loudwire reported the credit on February 1, 2017, listing Slash and Shinedown next to Baseford's name as earlier work of his. A Blabbermouth announcement the same day described the band as still in the studio putting the finishing touches on the album, called it their ninth, named BMG as the label, and credited the title track, which became the first single, to the band as writers and again to Baseford as co-producer.
Get Rollin', the band's tenth studio album, was made without a release deadline driving it. Talking to WRAT radio in September 2022, Chad Kroeger said that for 25 years the schedule had come from outside the band — when a record had to be finished, when the touring would start — and that this time the band set its own pace. He described going back to a single guitar solo forty more times across three days until it was exactly what they wanted, and called that freedom a luxury. Kroeger also allowed that the long pandemic layoff meant they could have started the album far sooner; in practice they worked on it as and when they came to it.
Two experiences with nothing to do with each other share one lyric in "Leader of Men": the sensation of being under the effect of magic mushrooms, and the memory of a time Chad Kroeger had to rescue a friend who was drowning. That account comes from Songfacts, which describes the words as a composite of things Kroeger had been through rather than a single story told in order.
Kroeger's own account of writing "How You Remind Me" places it in 2000, in the rehearsal room in the basement of his old house, immediately after a serious argument with the girlfriend he was living with in Vancouver. He says he was feeling jaded and set out to write lyrics that would land as a slap in the face: the song declares love on the surface while returning the blow underneath. He deliberately shouted the words into the microphone loud enough for her to hear them upstairs. She then opened the door to say she liked what she was hearing, which undid the point of the exercise entirely. Years later he told her the song had been about her, and by his account she refused to believe it.
Chad Kroeger told Billboard that The Long Road carried no central theme. Silver Side Up had been a very personal record, he said, while this one did not rest on his own life and could belong to anyone. The piece carrying his remarks ran on 12 September 2003 and listed the album as due out on Roadrunner eleven days later. As of that date it also placed the lead single "Someday" at No. 2 on Mainstream Rock Tracks and No. 6 on Modern Rock Tracks.
"Side of a Bullet" was written about three months after Dimebag Darrell was killed onstage in Columbus, Ohio. Chad Kroeger put together the song's heavy, metal-leaning riff first, then wrote the words as a call and response. The voice in the lyric is not his own but that of a Pantera fan enraged by the killing, a man who swears he will take revenge without knowing that the gunman has already been shot dead by a police officer. Speaking to MTV.com at the time, Kroeger said he had been badly shaken, and that for roughly two months the sight of a photograph of Dimebag was enough to make him angry.
Chad Kroeger has described "If Today Was Your Last Day," from Dark Horse, as a motivational song, and in a Classic Rock Q&A he set out the question it rests on: what would you do if you knew you would not be here in a week. His own answer was that people would finally get to the things they keep saying they will do and then put off, because they treat their days as a given.
Get Rollin' carries "Those Days", a song Chad Kroeger wrote with Ryan Peake and which the band members produced with Chris Baseford. Songfacts reads it as Kroeger looking back on the 1980s in Hanna, the small Alberta village he grew up in, and on the time he spent there with his brother, bassist Mike Kroeger, and his old friend, the guitarist Peake. Among the memories it gathers: a curfew that ran until the streetlights came on, being taken to the R-rated A Nightmare on Elm Street with an adult along, an attempt to reach 88 miles an hour the way the DeLorean does in Back to the Future, a first slow dance to Prince's "Purple Rain", and hearing Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" and Guns n' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine".
Jerry Cantrell, formerly the guitarist of Alice in Chains, was to have been one of three names on "Hero", alongside Chad Kroeger, who wrote it, and Saliva singer Josey Scott; he could not join the other two for the sessions, and the song — slated for the Spider-Man soundtrack — was cut without him at a Vancouver studio on 21 and 22 March 2002. Drums on the finished version are by Matt Cameron, formerly of Soundgarden. The guitar lead is played by the guitarist of Theory of a Deadman, a Vancouver band Kroeger had taken under his wing and one that had only just signed to Roadrunner Records. The weekend after, when the video was shot, Jeremy Taggart of Our Lady Peace was at the drums in Cameron's place — Cameron had gone home to his wife, reported to be heavily pregnant — and Nickelback's Mike Kroeger took the bass position.
A Tribute From Friends, a covers album honouring ZZ Top, carries Nickelback's version of "Legs". Loudwire reviewed the finished album on October 11, 2011 and singled the track out, pointing to the sixteenth-note drum part played by Daniel Adair.
A Loudwire report from May 2012 placed Chad Kroeger in the studio with Avril Lavigne, co-writing for her next record, and had him describing a job that had outgrown the original plan. Speaking to Boston station Mix 104.1, and relayed by the site, Kroeger said the idea had been a couple of songs, until she asked him to sing on one and the song count kept climbing from there. Lavigne was about eight songs into the album when the piece ran, and former Evanescence member David Hodges was working on it as well.
Billboard's news desk covered Avril Lavigne's announcement of her self-titled album on 5 September 2013: Epic Records had set 5 November for the release, with pre-orders announced to open on 24 September. The report gives the production credit to four people jointly — Lavigne, Chad Kroeger, Martin Johnson and David Hodges — and names Henson Studios as where the record was made. On the track listing printed with the piece, "Let Me Go" is billed as featuring Chad Kroeger.
Chad Kroeger sings as a guest on "Lady Mine", a solo track by Marianas Trench frontman Josh Ramsay released in December 2021. Ramsay handled nearly all of it himself: he played every instrument apart from the horns, produced it, and shared the mix with his longtime associate Dave "Rave" Ogilvie. By Ramsay's own account he set out to make a good-humoured piece of seventies-flavoured rock, and Kroeger's vocal pushed the finished track further than he had intended. It was issued as the lead single from Ramsay's debut solo album, The Josh Ramsay Show, which at the time of the announcement was scheduled for release early the following year.
The guest credit on "Rattle The Cage" sits inside the song title itself: the running order published alongside the album announcement of 14 July 2026 lists track one as "Rattle The Cage (feat. John 5)". The song reached streaming services that same day, and Blabbermouth's report of the announcement embedded two clips from Nickelback's own YouTube channel, an official music video and a visualizer. Songfacts, writing on 17 July 2026, described John 5 as a current member of Mötley Crüe.
Bassist Mike Kroeger, on a radio show on 28 July 2026, traced "Rattle The Cage" back to material that had sat on a hard drive as a demo idea for a long stretch. The band had raised it during the making of several albums and each time left it unfinished; ideas that get set aside, he said, are frequently just not ready yet. He also described how John 5 came to appear on it: the approach came from Nickelback, who wanted to widen what they could reach for and contacted the Mötley Crüe guitarist directly, having plenty of acquaintances in common, and he agreed.
Not every song from these sessions had the whole band playing in one room. The cover of the Elton John/Bernie Taupin hit "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" carries a vocal from Kid Rock and guitar from Pantera's "Dimebag" Darrell, and neither guest was present. Time was short and the diaries would not meet, so Nickelback sent the music over as files: Kid Rock cut his part at a studio in Michigan, Darrell his in Texas. Mix set this out in its November 2003 studio feature.
The 24-second guitar solo in "Side of a Bullet", on All the Right Reasons, is played by Dimebag Darrell himself. Chad Kroeger wrote the song as a tribute after Dimebag was shot dead onstage with Damageplan in Columbus, Ohio. In Roadrunner's official biography Kroeger says he telephoned Dimebag's brother, Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul, played him the track and asked for his blessing before going any further. Vinnie then sent over unreleased guitar material left from the Pantera sessions for Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven, and those fragments were edited together into the solo that ended up on the record. He had also weighed cutting a fresh drum track, but judged Daniel Adair's playing good enough to leave alone and contributed the guitar parts only. Loudwire reports that Dimebag's longtime partner Rita Haney gave the song her blessing as well.
Not long before No Fixed Address reached stores in North America, Chad Kroeger told Loudwire's Full Metal Jackie that the record took some sharp turns for the band. He said they had just hired a horn section, and that its players were the ones who had performed on Michael Jackson's "Thriller." He also mentioned women brought in to sing background parts and a rap appearance by Flo Rida. Kroeger framed all of it as the band's habit of wading into water it had not tried before. The interview names no individual horn player and does not say which tracks any of these contributions appear on.
A musicologist's reading of the two songs sits in the same NPR report. Gerald Eskelin — the expert witness behind John Fogerty's win in the mid-1980s case in which Fantasy Records argued that two of Fogerty's own songs were the same song — told NPR that the melodies of "How You Remind Me" and "Someday" are different, and that what the two share is the bass line or the chord structure. The band's side came from bassist Mike Kroeger, by way of an interview with the Cleveland paper Free Times that NPR relayed: catching the resemblance was a feat and pointed to a hit quality, and a band with a sound of its own — he named his own and AC/DC — runs the risk of sounding similar. Nickelback's publicist had not commented on the discovery as of that 4 January 2005 report.
Paul Scheer turns up as a record label executive in the clip Nickelback made together with Funny or Die, pitching the band on ways of winning a Detroit crowd over: renaming themselves The Four Nickels and becoming a Motown act, or dressing as figures the city claims as its own, Tom Selleck, Alice Cooper, RoboCop and Dave Coulier among them. Loudwire reported the clip on 22 November 2011 as the band's answer to the petition against their halftime appearance at the Lions' game with the Green Bay Packers. The band's own website carried it the same day under the heading "Nickelback Responds To NFL Petition," tagged #nickelback2detroit.
Maple Ridge, British Columbia, on May 19 and 20, 2017, is where Nigel Dick shot the video for "Song On Fire", and the entry for it in the production log he keeps on his own site adds that he had planned the video around a forest under drizzle, reckoning rain in British Columbia was a certainty, and that the sun came out instead. Two earlier Nickelback videos of his sit in the same log with their own dates and locations: "Far Away", filmed on November 1 and 2, 2005, at Green Timbers Park in Surrey, British Columbia, and "Photograph", a three-day shoot on July 23 and 24 and August 5 of that year, split between Hanna, Alberta, the town the band grew up in, and Val Verde, California.
By his own account the director spent six years on the film. Leigh Brooks, a British documentary filmmaker, said as much when he presented Hate to Love: Nickelback on social media. The wait had been visible from the band's side too: in April 2020, guitarist Ryan Peake posted a video saying the documentary, first teased on tour a year and a half earlier, was close to finished and that within a month or two there might be something to show anyone who wanted to see it; Louder carried the update at the time. The world premiere followed more than three years later, in September 2023. Rock documentaries were already Brooks's territory, his earlier credits including Terrorvision: Wired Up and Scary (2017) and The Sound of Scars (2022), a film about Life of Agony.
Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Mike Kroeger and Daniel Adair speak on camera about the band's up-and-down standing, in a film assembled from previously unseen archival material, concert footage and interviews, as Blabbermouth described it; the same report noted that the actor Ryan Reynolds and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins appear on the band's side. Monte Conner, formerly an A&R representative at Roadrunner Records, is another of the film's voices. Louder's review reports him saying the label's biggest signing in 1999 was Slipknot and that he does not believe Slipknot were pleased about Nickelback joining the roster, and crediting the band's commercial success with keeping Roadrunner going as a label. That review also describes clips of comedian Brian Posehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong making fun of the band, used to show how far anti-Nickelback feeling had spread through popular culture.
Amnesty International and International Children's Awareness Canada were the two beneficiaries named when the label Roadrunner put out a news release on January 29, 2007: from February 1, all money taken in from digital sales of "If Everyone Cared", the single and the video alike, would go to charity. The second of the two was a cause guitarist Ryan Peake had been supporting for some years. The release set out that plan and nothing further — no total, and no date on which the arrangement would end.
More than 250,000 digital singles sold, a No. 2 debut on the Billboard 200 for Dark Horse, 50 weeks on that chart and over 2.4 million copies in the United States alone: those are the figures WWE set out on its own site when it announced that "Burn It to the Ground", from Dark Horse, would become the new official theme song of Raw on USA Network. November 16 is the date the page gives for the change. What it never gives, anywhere, is a year, so which November 16 is meant cannot be established from the source.
The documentary did not begin as a feature. In a February 2023 radio interview, director Leigh Brooks traced its origin to a job shooting an electronic press kit for the album Feed the Machine. As he tells it, a radio DJ named Ben — the first person to play "How You Remind Me" on air in the UK — phoned a friend Brooks often worked with, asking whether anyone could come over and shoot the album piece with him; the Terrorvision documentary Brooks had just completed was what brought him the job. By his own account, all he knew of the band at that point was "How You Remind Me". The assignment soon grew into a longer film covering every album, and when Brooks heard the band would play their hometown of Hanna, Alberta, he decided that had to be filmed as well.
In a CBC Radio One conversation with host Tom Power, reported by Metal Hammer on 1 December 2022, Ryan Peake answered listeners who had read the teaser for "San Quentin" — a single from Get Rollin' — as a sign the band was moving toward metalcore. Peake described himself as a metal listener who had started out on pop and came to the genre once he picked up a guitar, naming Anthrax and Testament. His answer was about audiences rather than about the music: people who prefer more melodic material will accept an unexpectedly heavy song, live especially, whereas metal fans are, in his view, protective of the genre itself.
As of April 2003, Silver Side Up held a quintuple-platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, granted after shipments passed five million copies since the album arrived in September 2001. It was reported in a round-up of certifications announced around the same time, which also covered triple platinum for Disturbed's The Sickness and gold for both Saliva's Back Into Your System and Marilyn Manson's Holy Wood.
Billboard's Top Hot 100 Songs of the 21st Century ranks singles by their showing on the Hot 100 across charts dated January 1, 2000 through December 28, 2024, and "How You Remind Me" placed 24th. Loudwire, reporting the ranking, called Nickelback the only core rock act to make the list, while noting in the same piece that a number of songs that did well at alternative radio are on it too. The single came out in July 2001 as the lead track from Silver Side Up. In the United States it spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, and thirteen weeks at No. 1 on each of the Mainstream Rock and Alternative Airplay charts.
The band's first Juno, best new group in 2001, reached its members in two places. Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake were in Italy on a press tour; Mike Kroeger and Ryan Vikedal, the band's drummer at the time, were in Hamilton to receive the award. As Kroeger tells it, the news arrived in Italy as Peake banging on his hotel room door in the middle of the night. CBC Music published the account on 1 March 2023, in an interview conducted ahead of the band's induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Two trophies went to Nickelback at the 13th MuchMusic Video Awards, held in Toronto on 16 June 2002, and the surviving records disagree about which video earned which. Billboard, writing the following day, gives best video to "Too Bad" and the MuchLOUD best rock video award to "How You Remind Me"; MuchMusic's own archived list of winners puts "Too Bad" in both slots. The count and the two category names are the same either way. The same Billboard report has the band, counted together with Chad Kroeger's separate nominations, leading the field with twelve nods, competing against itself in several categories, and opening the two-hour broadcast with "Too Bad" and pyrotechnics.
All three trophies Nickelback collected at the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto went to a single clip, "Gotta Be Somebody": best video, best rock video and best post-production. CBC News, covering the Toronto ceremony, counted five nominations for the band that year and described those three wins as the largest haul of the night. One of the awards reached them on the red carpet itself, moments after they stepped out of a black SUV.
Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin was named on 18 February 2025 as the site of a two-day Summer Of '99 And Beyond Festival, Creed's own event, expanded that year to take in Nickelback as co-headliners. The announcement gave 18 and 19 July as the dates, put Nickelback at the head of the Friday bill and Creed at the head of the Saturday, stated that the two bands had not shared a stage since 1999, and dated Nickelback's first appearance at the venue to 2007.
Nickelback played Summer Sonic on August 7, 2010, appearing on the festival's main stage at Chiba Marine Stadium. Gekirock's report from the show describes an opening with no walk-on tape and no preamble at all: the band went straight into the intro of "Burn It to the Ground." "Photograph," "Savin' Me," "Figured You Out" and "Rockstar" followed, and the set was closed out with "Gotta Be Somebody" and "How You Remind Me."
Nickelback opened a run of three small shows built around the release of Get Rollin' at History in Toronto, Ontario on November 15, 2022, and it was the band's first concert in about three years. Two singles from the album, "San Quentin" and "Those Days", were played live for the first time that night, and the set also took in older hits such as "Photograph", "Someday" and "Rockstar". The album followed three days later, on November 18, through BMG.
Twelve dates produced by Live Nation were announced on 27 November 2023 for the following spring in Europe, running from the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on 16 May to the Olympiahalle in Munich on 8 June, with the British band Lottery Winners billed as support throughout. The Birmingham stop at the Utilita Arena on 23 May is documented after the fact by Louder, whose review of 30 May 2024 reports a crowd of 16,000 and calls the visit the band's first UK tour in six years. Munich's Olympiapark, on its own listing for the closing night, presented the European dates as a continuation of the Get Rollin' World Tour.