Trivia / Nickelback

• Band of Relatives: Chad and Mike Kroeger are half-brothers, former member Brandon Kroeger is their cousin.
• Chart Displacement: Nickelback had ten Top 40 hits in the US: "How You Remind Me", "Someday", "Photograph", "Rockstar", "Far Away", "Savin' Me", "If Everyone Cared", "Gotta be Somebody", "If Today Was Your Last Day" and... "Burn It to the Ground"? Maybe "When We Stand Together"? Well wrong, none of these two songs actually reached the Top 40 (with "Burn It to the Ground" not even charting on the Hot 100 for that matter), instead their tenth top 40 hit was actually "This Afternoon" which despite peaking at #34 is nowhere near as remembered the other tracks mentioned.
• Creator Backlash: Chad is not proud of the band's first EP Hersher, finding it terrible and believing that it had only one good song on it ("Fly").
• He Also Did:
  • Chad Kroeger wrote "Hero" for Spider-Man, and the track also features Mike.
  • He also co-wrote Tim McGraw's 2009 single "It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You".
• Meme Acknowledgment: The band will occasionally announce "Photograph" as "Look at This Graph", referencing one of the bigger memes about it.
• Multiple Endings: The music video for "Someday" has two different endings, one of which sees the protagonists reunited.
• The Pete Best:
  • Ryan Vikedal was fired after The Long Road and replaced by Daniel Adair just before the band became a mainstream staple.
  • Additionally, the band's first drummer Brandon Kroeger is an even more clear example given that he left the band before the release of their Breakthrough Hit "How You Remind Me".
• Referenced by...: In the Tempest (2011) novel Tempest Rising, Nickelback is one of the artists Tempest dances to at her seventeenth birthday party.
• What Could Have Been:
  • "Never Again" originally had a story-driven music video, but it was never aired due to its violent images.
  • "Gotta Be Somebody" originally had a different music video that was scrapped after Chad was unsatisfied with it.
  • "What Are You Waiting For?" was originally supposed to have a music video, but it kept getting pushed back and reshot due to the band being unable to decide on what they wanted the story in the video to be and it never came out.

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