I'm not avoiding Alberta waiting for the statute of limitations to run out on any crime I've committed. He was never worried about admitting to the incident on song because, as he says, "I got charged for it, those are all on my criminal record. The incident in question refers to Kroeger breaking into his high school - it was actually 11 times, but "half a dozen" fit better rhythmically - in order to liberate money from the office safe.
Lyrically, the rest of the song carries on in a very literal sense, including the lines "Criminal record says I broke in twice/ I must have done it half a dozen times." The welcome sign into the small town of less than 3,000 people proudly proclaims, 'Proud to be the home of Nickelback.' (Hanna, Alberta/Facebook) But first, the video, shot in Hanna, Alta., and which is still to this day Kroeger's favourite. We asked Kroeger to break down the songwriting process behind All the Right Reason's lead single and one of the biggest songs of his career. "They're like, if you don't know what this song is about, you're an idiot."įor example, " What the hell is on Joey's head?" "Everything was just really clicking for us at that time, and those songs were all just really strong songs," says frontman Chad Kroeger of the album that spawned five top 25 singles and became the first rock album of the 2000s to contain three top 10 hits - none more popular than "Photograph," Kroeger's ode to hometown nostalgia that is as popular on classic rock stations as it is on the internet with memes.Īnd yet, despite that song's cultural impact, there are still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding it that even Genius, the song annotation site, doesn't know - "I kinda like that," says Kroeger. In March, the Hanna, Alta., rock group's 2005 album, All the Right Reasons, received diamond status in the United States, which means it surpassed 10 million units in sales - a feat only Céline Dion, Shania Twain and Alanis Morrisette have also achieved from this country. This list of popular Nickelback CDs has been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order of this list isn't just one person's opinion.Nickelback recently entered a rarified space very few Canadian acts have ever known. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums if you have a favorite Nickelback album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular.Įxamples of albums on this list: All the Right Reasons (2005), Silver Side Up (2001) and more.
If you think the greatest Nickelback album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Nickelback singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. Formed in 1995 in Alberta, Canada, Nickelback has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide although it took them until their third album, Silver Side Up (2001) before sales went bananas. Their following five albums - Long Road (2003), All the Right Reasons (2005), and Dark Horse (2008), Here and Now (2011), and No Fixed Address (2014) all went platinum.
Since they’re such an influential band, let’s rank the best Nickelback albums, with the help of your votes. This Nickelback discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Nickelback albums can be found at the top of the list.