Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in in Hanna , Alberta. Throughout its history, it has consisted of lead guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger , rhythm guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake , and bassist Mike Kroeger. It went through several drummer changes between and before Daniel Adair joined.
The band signed with Roadrunner Records in and reached a mainstream breakthrough in with the single " How You Remind Me ", which reached number one in the United States and Canada. In , the band's best-selling album to date, All the Right Reasons , produced three top and five top singles on the Billboard Hot , including " Photograph ", " Far Away ", and " Rockstar ", the latter of which was their biggest success in the United Kingdom.
In , the seventh album Here and Now topped the charts in Canada. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. The band was formed in the early s as a cover band called Village Idiot [ 9 ] by brothers Michael and Chad Kroeger ; their cousin Brandon Kroeger and Ryan Peake rounded out the band. The band later changed its name to Nickelback, which originated from the nickel in change that band member Mike Kroeger gave customers at his job at Starbucks ; he would frequently say, "Here's your nickel back.
In , the band recorded and released their first full-length album, Curb. In , Brandon Kroeger left the band and was replaced by Mitch Guindon; however, Guindon soon departed as well. While initially reported due to him starting work at a car company, Guindon's departure came due to him "not [being] meant for the road". Chad Kroeger stated that his skin was not able to handle cold weather and they convinced him to leave. Although an unknown property in the industry at the time, the venue was packed out.
In Burman's words: "I immediately got the chills! I thought their song 'Leader of Men' was a smash hit. Despite this, it still took Burman three months for him to convince his label bosses to approve the signing, a decision that would mark Roadrunner's first move into mainstream rock. The album was the band's first album to be certified gold status and it later went into platinum status in , after the success of their later albums. Around , Chad Kroeger started "studying every piece, everything sonically, everything lyrically, everything musically, chord structure.
