Nickelback
The star of the Canadian rock band «Nickelback» rose to the dome of the music in 1995 after the release of a record titled «Hesher». Later, the whole band would prefer to repudiate their authorship and hide this album deep in the annals of history. According to lead vocalist Chad Kruger, this album was something of an experiment: "We had no experience, no expectations, no ideas how such things are done." Despite the general negative attitude to the «Hesher», four songs from it were included in their next album titled «Curb» (1996), with a single «Fly» coming out a little later. The album was not much a success. The band was to get their first "gold" status only fourteen years later. «Nickelback» recorded their second album titled «The State», which concurrently was their first "platinum", in 1998; however, its official release took place only in 2000, when the lead single «Leader of Men» managed to catch the fancy of the audience so thoroughly that it even got into the Top Ten American rock charts. Despite the success of the singles and the US-Canadian platinum, the positions of the album turned out to be just slightly better than those of their debut - 130th place against the 182th in the U.S top.
The first true success fell on share of their third album called «Silver Side Up» (2001), which was not only certified platinum in the U.S., Canada and England for many times, but also raised the band to hitherto unseen tops the charts in five countries at once and got in the top ten. «Silver Side Up», though made in the traditional rock manner of Nickelback, yet differs from previous works by a more rigorous approach to the compositions. Three singles were released: «How You Remind Me», «Too Bad» and «Never Again», the first of which was the most successful and topped several charts, it also brought the «Nickelback» a music award from the Billboard Music Awards as well as a nomination for a Grammy.
The album «The Long Road» (2003) that came out later, alas, could not succeed its predecessor, although five new singles were released. After this release «Nickelback» were forced to change the drummer because of band’s internal disagreements. The new drummer Daniel Adair blended into the team so harmoniously, that the fifth album titled «All the Right Reasons» (2005) was the most successful in history of the band, surpassing «Silver Side Up» at the box office, but ending up with lower positions in the charts. As was the case with the previous album, five singles came out, each of which firmly established in the top twenty: «Photograph», «Savin 'Me», «Far Away», «If Everyone Cared» and «Rockstar».
The album «Dark Horse» which came out in 2008 also went multi-platinum, although critics received it with some skepticism, accusing «Nickelback» of certain amount of unoriginality, due to which all the new songs from the album “sound like Nickelback’s older hits, only worse” . Despite the mixed reviews, «Dark Horse» conquered the Canadian and U.S. charts instantly.
At the moment «Nickelback» is working on a new album, previously codenamed «Here and Now» (2011), which is due in late of 2011. From time to time the band gets involved in creation of musical accompaniment to the blockbusters.
