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in an official list that ranks them as the number seven best-selling artist of the 2000s. They state that “‘How You Remind Me’ is the top song on Billboard’s decade-end Rock Songs chart” (Billboard, 1).

This isn’t me defending Nickelback, these are just pure facts.

Nickelback, despite all of the crap they get for their unoriginality and terrible looks and sound, still manage to be relevant in the year 2016. Even if people decide to bash them, they are still a topic of conversation.

As the old saying goes, any publicity is good publicity. So no matter what someone says about Nickelback or their music, I’m sure that they’re laughing it up with their millions of dollars in their pockets as they continue to play shitty music to crowds of the middle-aged all around the world.

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