3/7/2023 0 Comments You remind me of a sunday![]() ![]() Nickelback went on to score five more top-10 hits, as well as one big movie ballad for frontman Chad Kroeger, and all of those songs sound, to one degree or another, like “How You Remind Me.” On the strength of “How You Remind Me,” Nickelback have sold untold millions of albums. As the decade ended, Billboard further reported that “How You Remind Me” was the most-played radio hit of the entire ’00s. “How You Remind Me” reached #1 just as 2001 was ending, and Billboard later named it the #1 single of 2002. Before “How You Remind Me,” Nickelback had released two albums, and they’d found some rock-radio success, but they’d never had a song on the Hot 100 before their first and only #1 hit. The success of “How You Remind Me” is overwhelming and historic. That song is called “How You Remind Me,” and it’s pretty fucking good. And unlike the perilously wack post-grunge bawlers who were polluting the charts at the same time, Nickelback made their impact with a song that actually rocks. Here’s one important thing about Nickelback: They are the last hard rock band - arguably even the last rock band, full-stop - to top the Billboard Hot 100. I watched this phenomenon take shape, and I understand it, but that doesn’t mean I agree with it. But I feel like derision of Chad Kroeger and his goatee is even more widespread than derision of Scott Stapp and his chin. ![]() Compared to Nickelback, even Creed are… well, they’re still Creed. Nickelback are rock’s scapegoats, its whipping boys, and they seem content to serve that function. ![]() The target is too easy.Įvery other halfway prominent rock band should fall to their knees and thank the universe that Nickelback continue to exist. Joking about Nickelback is like joking about airplane food. At some point, hatred of Nickelback went from a hacky joke to a tired meme, and nobody even seems to bother with it anymore. I have a halfassed theory that this pervading facial mundanity is the reason that Nickelback are the most widely disrespected rock band of the 21st century, the one band that virtually everyone is happy to mock relentlessly. It feels wrong, the same way it would feel wrong to see Tommy Lee buying a big bag of kitty litter at Target. There’s something vaguely perverse about watching wildly normal guys in rock-out mode. Guitarist Ryan Peake, in particular, scrunches and screws all his nondescript features up with intense hard-rockin’ seriousness. And yet those guys, with those faces, are going off so hard. They look like your neighbor whose name you can’t remember even though you’ve had upwards of five conversations. These guys don’t look like rockers they look like pediatricians or IT technicians or barbacks. They’re faces that radiate deep, overwhelming averageness. The other Nickelback guys do not have memorable faces. Those friends of sitcom dads are still television actors, and they still have to pop off the screen a little bit. They’re not even the faces of the friends of the dads in a sitcom. The faces of the other Nickelback guys, as depicted in the “How You Remind Me” video, are almost aggressively normal. I’m talking about the other guys in Nickelback. I’m not talking about the mantis-like face of the scarily skinny model who plays the problematic love-interest antagonist, either. We know that face - the hangdog eyes, the incongruously flowy Jesus hair, the bad-idea goatee, the general Droopy Dog mien. I’m not talking about the face of Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger. At the 45th edition of the event, which took place the following year, “U Don’t Have to Call” won him the same award.In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. He won “Best R&B Vocal Performance Male” with the song, “U Remind Me”. In February of 2002, “8701” blessed Usher with his first ever Grammy Award. It clinged to various spots within top-10 in the following countries: The album peaked at No.1 in the UK and Canada. It was awarded Gold certifications in France, Japan and Switzerland. It received 2x Platinum certifications in the UK and Australia. The RIAA of the US certified it 4x Platinum. By 2010 it had recorded sales of over 8 million copies globally. “8701” sold over 200,000 copies within its first week of release. The album’s title, “8701” was derived from the combination of two dates, the year Usher started singing in church (1987) and the year of the album’s official release (2001). The leaked tracks were replaced with new ones before the album got officially released the following year. It had to be postponed a number of times because some of its tracks leaked. The album was scheduled to be released in October of 2000. It was released on August 7 of 2001 as the singer’s 3rd studio album. “8701” is an album by American singer, songwriter and dancer, Usher Raymond.
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