Nickelback is a Canadian rock band from Hanna, Alberta, formed in 1995 by Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and then-drummer Brandon Kroeger. While largely a rock band, the group has also experimented with various other musical styles such as pop and country, aside from their hard rock and post-grunge base. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold 30 million records worldwide.[5] Nickelback ranks as the 11th best selling music act of the 2000s, and is the 2nd best selling foreign act in the US behind The Beatles for the 2000s.[6]
In 2009, The Word magazine readers voted Nickelback "Worst Band In The World", receiving 19.8% of the vote.[28]
In 2010, a Facebook group entitled "Can this pickle get more fans than Nickleback?" [sic] numbered slightly more than 1.5 million Facebook fans, succeeding in getting more fans on Facebook than the band's official group.[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]
Jam! Canoe columnist Darryl Sterdan named lead singer Chad Kroeger the second worst singer of all time, behind Taylor Swift saying: "Nickelback's frontman may not have invented that post-grunge moose-in-heat bellow he relies on, but nobody does it better than he does. And by better, I mean worse".[36]