We’re happy with this start and we think it’s great.”īMG, the music arm of Germany’s Bertelsmann Corporation, initially focused on publishing and neighboring rights since its return to music sphere in 2008 shortly after its split with Sony (when it kept some 200 recorded masters). They put together a very, very good body of music here. iTunes would have been the perfect place for people to sh-t on it, so to speak. “If you see the reviews even on iTunes it got 4.5 stars, and this is an artist that’s supposedly hated. “The album, in my opinion, is actually very good,” Katz says. Nickelback Signs Worldwide Deal With BMG, Preps 9th Studio Album “Of course we knew what they’re reputation was,” says Zach Katz, president of repertoire and marketing at BMG U.S., which in January signed Nickelback to a global record deal, “But we were absolutely amazed by how legit, how focused, how forward-thinking and how internationally liked this band is.” Last week, BMG released Nickelback’s ninth studio album, Feed the Machine, which is heading for a top ten spot on this weekend’s Billboard 200 with roughly 45,000 albums sold which, depending on this week’s competition, could be enough for the record to break into the top five. With that kind of baggage, who in their right mind would sign Nickelback?

But despite a diamond certification for their album All the Right Reasons, and the single “How You Remind Me” topping Billboard‘s decade-end Rock Songs chart, Nickelback remains an almost reflexive punchline for reasons which most cannot explain.

The Canadian quartet are Billboard’s top performing duo/group of the 2000s decade and, according to Nielsen Music, have sold 24.1 million albums and earned 1.1 billion streams of its songs in the United States to date. And yet, Nickelback, unlike most others, have continued to enjoy astronomical sales and may just be one the most inexplicable conundrums in all of the music business. And they are often mentioned in the same breath as other negatively-associated bands such as Limp Bizkit, Creed and Candlebox.

Figures no less prominent than former President Barack Obama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have jokingly dissed them. They’ve had petitions circulated to prevent them from performing in places as wide-ranging as the countries of Australia and the United Kingdom to an NFL halftime show in Detroit.

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