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Nickelback
Band Hanna Canada Formed 1995
Nickelback formed in 1995 in Hanna, Canada. Nickelback has 206 chart appearances on 142 radio countdowns from 50 stations on RockLists, spanning 2000–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “How You Remind Me”, which appears on 53 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Nickelback most often is CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON), with 17 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
Nickelback started out in 1995, a Canadian band built around Chad Kroeger on lead vocals and lead guitar, Ryan Peake on rhythm guitar, keyboards and backing vocals, and Mike Kroeger on bass. The drum stool changed hands several times, from Brandon Kroeger to Mitch Guindon to Ryan Vikedal, before Daniel Adair settled into it in 2005. The State, in 1998, carried "Leader of Men", and a deal with Roadrunner Records followed in 1999.
Silver Side Up, in 2001, was the breakthrough, and "How You Remind Me" was the reason: a brooding verse, a chorus the size of a hockey arena and Chad Kroeger's gravel-gargling roar right in the middle, and it went to number one in the US and Canada. The album went 8 times platinum at home, with "Too Bad" and "Never Again" backing it up. The Long Road, in 2003, spun off 5 singles, among them "Someday", a number one in Canada and a top-10 hit on the Hot 100, and "Figured You Out" and "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good".
All the Right Reasons, in 2005, became their best-selling album, with 3 top-10 and 5 top-20 hits on the Hot 100, including "Photograph", "Far Away" and "Rockstar", which did best of all in Britain. Dark Horse, in 2008, yielded 8 singles, "Gotta Be Somebody" among them, Here and Now topped the Canadian chart in 2011, and No Fixed Address, Feed the Machine and Get Rollin' followed in 2014, 2017 and 2022.
The totals are hard to argue with: more than 50 million albums sold, the most successful rock group of the 2000s by Billboard's count, and "How You Remind Me" the best-selling rock song of that decade. Canada's Walk of Fame welcomed them in 2007 and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2023. On the countdowns, "How You Remind Me" and "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" still come out on top.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Nickelback on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How You Remind Me | 53 | #2 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | Someday | 22 | #3 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Too Bad | 17 | #10 | – | 2002 | |
| 4 | Figured You Out | 14 | #4 | – | 2004 | |
| 5 | Photograph | 13 | #9 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | Feelin' Way Too Damn Good | 9 | #2 | – | 2004 | |
| 7 | Animals | 8 | #22 | – | 2006 | |
| 8 | Never Again | 7 | #13 | – | 2002 | |
| 9 | Rockstar | 8 | #22 | – | 2006 | |
| 10 | Burn It to the Ground | 6 | #9 | – | 2009 | |
| 11 | Savin' Me | 5 | #21 | – | 2006 | |
| 12 | Leader of Men | 7 | #27 | – | 2000 | |
| 13 | Feed the Machine | 3 | #31 | – | 2017 | |
| 14 | Something in your Mouth | 5 | #30 | – | 2009 | |
| 15 | Side of a Bullet | 2 | #5 | – | 2007 | |
| 16 | Bottoms Up | 4 | #47 | – | 2011 | |
| 17 | San Quentin | 2 | #13 | – | 2022 | |
| 18 | If Today Was Your Last Day | 2 | #17 | – | 2009 | |
| 19 | Breathe | 4 | #55 | – | 2000 | |
| 20 | Far Away | 1 | #17 | – | 2006 | |
| 21 | This Means War | 1 | #19 | – | 2012 | |
| 22 | Because of You | 2 | #85 | – | 2005 | |
| 23 | When We Stand Together | 1 | #45 | – | 2011 | |
| 24 | Gotta Be Somebody | 3 | #70 | – | 2008 | |
| 25 | This Afternoon | 1 | #61 | – | 2010 | |
| 26 | Shakin' Hands | 1 | #57 | – | 2009 | |
| 27 | Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting | 1 | #65 | – | 2003 | |
| 28 | Skinny Little Missy | 1 | #66 | – | 2024 | |
| 29 | If Everyone Cared | 1 | #71 | – | 2007 | |
| 30 | Old Enough | 1 | #179 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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