Nickelback Scores Major Chart Win Despite Being the Butt of Countless Jokes Online

Hating Nickelback has been fashionable for years now. Memes about the band’s supposed poor quality are all over the internet. As a result, their less bold fans will scarcely admit to enjoying the Canadian rock band for fear of being mocked. However, the numbers don’t lie. Someone is buying their albums like hotcakes.

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Yesterday (January 9) saw the release of the Top Billboard 200 Albums of the 21st Century chart. The list chronicles the 200 best-selling albums since the turn of the century. Not only did Nickelback’s album All the Right Reasons make the cut, it is in the top 10. The band’s 2005 hit album sits at No. 9 on the chart.

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Nickelback Topped the Billboard 200 for the First Time with All the Right Reasons

All the Right Reasons features radio-dominating earworms like “Photograph,” “Far Away,” and “Rockstar.” By the time Nickelback released the album—their first with former 3 Doors Down drummer Daniel Adair—they were already huge in their home country of Canada. All the Right Reasons was their third straight No. 1 album north of the border. However, it was their first and only in the States.

Two of their previous albums—Silver Side Up (2001) and The Long Road (2003)—cracked the Top 10 in the United States, landing at No. 2 and No. 6, respectively. So, they had already found their footing. However, All the Right Reasons brought them a new level of success.

While the album only topped the US albums chart for one week, it was a massive commercial success. In fact, the Diamond-Certified release is one of the best-selling albums of the last 25 years having moved more than seven million copies by 2015.

The band currently has more than 21 million monthly listeners on Spotify with many of their songs garnering hundreds of millions of streams. “How You Remind Me” from Silver Side Up is sitting at more than 1 billion streams.

Of course, album sales and chart success don’t always equate to quality. However, they do prove that plenty of people are still spinning their songs, even if they claim to dislike the band.

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