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“Too Bad” by Nickelback

From the album Silver Side Up (2001)

“Too Bad” by Nickelback appears on 17 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 2001 and 2010. It was first released in 2001 on the album Silver Side Up. Its best result is #10 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #54 alternative song of 2002, #4,805 alternative song of all time and #434 of the '00s.

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"Too Bad" came next after "How You Remind Me" off Silver Side Up, Nickelback's third album, from 2001, and it's the most personal thing on the record. Chad Kroeger, the band's singer and guitarist, wrote the words about growing up without a father: the man walked out on him and his brother Mike when Chad was two. The song carries that grudge in its bones, brooding verses giving way to a big, bruised post-grunge chorus that lands like a slammed door.

The video plays the story out while the band pounds away inside the Woodley Sawmill: a foreclosure notice drives the father off, the son grows up angry, storms away from his mother, and crashes into a post on a dirt road, breaking his leg, before the news reaches his dad by phone. It topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, reached 42 on the Hot 100, and went top 20 in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Hard Rock & Metal

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Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2001	97	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001	100
2001	90	107.7 The End Seattle, WA	The End Top 107 Songs of 2001	107
2001	78	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001	99
2001	69	WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001	106
2002	20	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2002	101
2002	41	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2002	100
2002	21	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2002	89
2002	28	Y100 Philadelphia, PA	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2002	100
2002	104	Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA	Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002	105
2002	10	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 40 Songs of 2002	40
2002	81	102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002	103
2002	20	Radio 104.1 Hartford-New Haven, CT	WMRQ Top 104 Songs of 2002	104
2002	36	103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL	Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2002	103
2002	14	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002	99

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
2002	907	KISW	KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002)	999
2005	329	99X	99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005)	1000
2010	85	CFNY 102.1 The Edge	102.1 The Edge Top 200 New Rock Songs of the Millennium	200

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