Nickelback lead croaker Chad Kroeger once thanked THE HATERS for his band’s success, telling the Pulse of the Radio, “If [critics] had stopped writing all this stuff about us, there would be no controversy left in the band and we probably would have died out years ago. They don’t know that they’re still responsible for us being around today.” He might be on to something.
Did you know that Nickelback just released a new album? It’s true, but no one’s really talking about it. Maybe it’s a collective sadness hangover from Canadian power couple Kroeger and Avril Lavigne breaking up, or more likely, our mockery has moved elsewhere, to Bill Cosby. Either way, apparently no one, either fan or foe, was aware of No Fixed Address, which bombed.
Hits Daily Double is reporting that Nickelback’s new album No Fixed Address will sell 60-65,000 copies in its first week on sale. Every Nickelback album in the last 15 years has gone platinum or multi-platinum, with high first week sales.
2003’s The Long Road – 200,000
2005’s All the Right Reasons – 323,350
2008’s Dark Horse – 326,000
2011’s Here and Now – 227,000 (Via)
To put that 60,000 into context, Foo Fighters and Pink Floyd’s new albums sold 190,000 and 170,000, respecively, in their first weeks of release. So, it’s not terrible, but it’s also not what we’ve come to expect from the Band of the Decade, which is a thing that happened.
In related news, Nickelback wrote a song inspired by Ferguson. FINALLY.
