  Nickleback hail from Canada and
consists of Chad Kroeger on vocals, Mike
Kroeger on bass, Ryan Peake on guitar, and
Ryan Vikedal on drums. Nickelback started out
as cover band but eventually led to the boys
creating their own original material and
independently releasing Hesher (EP)
and Curb. The boys eventually
got a following with relentless touring and
eventually a record deal. The Kroeger
brothers' cousin, Brandon Kroeger, originally
was a member with the group but left and was
replaced on drums by Mitch Guindon and then
by Vikedal in 1998.
 Nickelback released The
State. The band had hits with
"Breathe," "Old Enough,"
and "Leader Of Men" hitting the
rock charts.
 # 66
Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback won a Juno Award for
Best New Group.
 Nickelback released Silver
Side Up.
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Modern Rock Tracks chart and Mainstream Rock
Tracks chart for 13 weeks with "How You Remind Me."
Silver
Side Up was certified platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 for
the first time with "How You Remind Me."
 Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "How You Remind Me."
Silver
Side Up was certified 2x platinum.
Nickelback hit #1 for 2 weeks with
"How You Remind Me."
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Hot 100 Single chart for 5 weeks, the Hot 100
Singles Sales chart for 3 weeks, and the Top
40 Tracks chart for 12 weeks with "How You Remind Me."
 Nickelback:
# 36
Singles Artist of the Year ~ Chad
Kroeger: # 57
Singles Artist of the Year
 Silver
Side Up was certified 3x platinum.
Silver
Side Up was certified 4x platinum.
Nickelback appeared on The
Scorpion King soundtrack with "Yanking
Out My Heart."
 Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"Too Bad."
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 3 weeks with
"Too Bad."
Nickelback won 3 Juno Awards for
Best Group, Best Single ("How You Remind Me"), and Best Rock Album (Silver
Side Up).
 Chad Kroeger hit the Top 40 with
Josey Scott (from Saliva)
with the hit from the film Spiderman - "Hero" - which was in
the Top 10 by the end of the
month.
Kroeger with Josey Scott
topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks
chart for 2 weeks and the Modern Rock Tracks
chart for 3 weeks with "Hero."
Nickelback won 2 MuchMusic Video
Awards for Best Video ("Too Bad") and Best Rock
Video ("How You Remind Me").
 The video for "Hero" won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Video from a Film.
Kroeger was featured on Santana's next LP, Shaman, on the track
"Why Don't You And I."
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 3 weeks with
"Never Again."
 Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems
proclaimed "How You Remind Me" as the single
receiving the most airplay during the year.
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts with the Top Hot 100
Singles & Track, Top Hot Top 40 Track,
and Top Hot 100 Airplay Track ("How You Remind Me"), and as the Top
Hot 100 Singles Artist - Duos/Group.
 # 71
Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback was
nominated for a American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock
Band/Duo/Group. The band performed "How You Remind Me" at the ceremony.
Nickelback could be heard on
the Daredevil soundtrack with
"Learn The Hard Way."
Nickelback were
nominated for a Grammy Award for Record of the Year ("How You Remind Me") and Kroeger was
nominated for 3 more for Best Rock Song, Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group, and Best Song Written for a
Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual
Media ("Hero").
 Silver
Side Up was certified 5x platinum.
Kroeger and Nickelback won a
Juno Award for Songwriters of the Year.
Nickelback with Kid Rock contributed
a track ("Saturday Night's Alright (For
Fighting)") to the soundtrack for Charlie's
Angels: Full Throttle.
 Nickelback hit the Top
40 with "Someday."
Nickelback topped the
Canadian singles chart with "Someday."
Nickelback released their next
LP The
Long Road.
Nickelback topped the Canadian
LP chart with The
Long Road.
The
Long Road was certified platinum.
 Nickelback hit the Top10 with "Someday."
 # 31
Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback topped the
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 13
weeks with "Figured You Out."
 Nickelback was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Rock Song (songwriters) ("Someday") and Best Rock Album (The
Long Road).
The
Long Road was certified 2x platinum.
Nickelback topped the
Billboard Adult Top 40 chart with "Someday."
 Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"Feelin' Way Too Damn
Good."
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Feelin' Way Too Damn
Good."
Nickelback toured with 3 Doors Down during
the summer.
The single "Someday" was certified
gold.
Nickelback was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group.
# 242 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 # 39
Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback announced
that drummer Ryan Vikedal had left the group.
Nickelback was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("Feelin' Way Too Damn
Good").
 The
Long Road was certified 3x platinum.
Silver
Side Up was certified 6x platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"Photograph."
 Nickelback released All
The Right Reasons.
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Photograph."
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Hot Digital Songs chart with "Photograph."
Nickelback topped the
Billboard 200 LP chart with All
The Right Reasons - selling over 317,000
copies its first week of release in the US.
Nickelback topped the
Canadian LP charts with All
The Right Reasons.
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Adult Top 40 Tracks chart with "Photograph."
All
The Right Reasons was certified
platinum.
The single "Photograph" was certified 2x
platinum, "Someday" was certified
platinum, and "How You Remind Me" and
"Figured Your Out" were certified
gold.
All
The Right Reasons was certified 2x
platinum.
 # 5
Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Pop 100 chart with "Photograph."
Nickelback topped the
Billboard Rock Albums chart with All
The Right Reasons.
 Nickelback topped the Billboard
Mainstream Rock Tracks chart with
"Animals."
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"Savin' Me."
Nickelback won 2 Juno Awards for
Best Group and Best Rock Album (All
The Right Reasons).
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Savin' Me."
All
The Right Reasons was certified 3x
platinum.
 Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"Far Away."
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Far Away."
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart with "Far Away."
Nickelback hit #1 for a week with "Far Away."
All
The Right Reasons was certified 4x
platinum.
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Pop 100 Airplay chart with "Far Away."
Nickelback won an American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Album (All
The Right Reasons), and were nominated
for Favorite Pop/Rock
Band/Duo/Group, Favorite Alternative Artist.
All
The Right Reasons was the 4th
biggest-selling LP in the US for the year
with sales during the year topping 2.6
million.
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Pop Artist
- Duo/Group (singles & albums), Top Hot
100 Singles - Duo/Group, and Top Hot Adult
Top 40 Artist.
All
The Right Reasons was certified 5x
platinum.
 # 10
Singles Artist of the Year
 Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"If Everyone Cared."
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart with "If Everyone Cared."
 Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"Rockstar."
All
The Right Reasons was certified 6x
platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 10 with "Rockstar."
 All
The Right Reasons was certified 7x
platinum.
Kroeger hit the Top 40 helping
out Santana with the track "Into The Night" from the LP Ultimate
Santana.
Nickelback won an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group.
 # 64
Singles Artist of the Year
 The DVD Nickelback:
The Ultimate Video Collection was released.
Nickelback was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("If Everyone Cared").
 Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"Gotta Be Somebody."
The
State was certified platinum.
Nickelback released their next
LP Dark
Horse.
 Nickelback topped the Billboard
Top Rock Albums chart with Dark
Horse.
Dark
Horse was certified platinum.
 # 21
Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart with "Gotta Be Somebody."
 Nickelback topped the Billboard
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart with
"Something In Your Mouth."
Nickelback released the DVD Nickelback:
Live At Sturgis 2006.
Nickelback won 3 Juno Awards
including Group of the Year, Album of the
Year, and the Fan Choice Award.
 Dark
Horse was certified 2x platinum.
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"If Today Was Your Last
Day."
Nickelback won 3 MuchMusic Video
Awards.
All
The Right Reasons was certified 8x
platinum.
 Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"Never Gonna Be Alone."
Nickelback were nominated for a American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group.
Kroeger could be heard on the Timbaland LP Timbaland
Presents Shock Value 2 on the track
"Tomorrow In The Bottle."
Nickelback topped the Billboard 2009
Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Billboard
200 Album Artist - Duo/Group, Top Hard Rock
Album Artist, and with the Top Hard Rock
Album (Dark
Horse).
 # 48
Singles Artist of the Year
 Nickelback was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance ("Burn It To The
Ground").
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"This Afternoon."
 Dark
Horse was certified 3x platinum.
 # 90
Singles Artist of the Year
Nickelback hit the Top 40 with
"When We Stand Together."
 Nickelback released Here
& Now.
Nickelback topped the Billboard
Rock Albums chart, Hard Rock Albums chart,
and Alternative Albums chart with Here
& Now.
Here
& Now was certified gold.
Nickleback topped the Billboard 2012
Year-End Chart-Toppers chart as the Top Hard
Rock Artist and with the Top Hard Rock Album
(Here
& Now).
 Kroeger married Avril Lavigne.
Nickelback released The
Best Of Nickelback Volume 1.
- December 6: Nickelback topped
the Billboard Rock Album charts,
Alternative Albums chart, and Hard Rock
Albums chart with No Fixed Address.
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