Beyoncé Knowles’ double-disk “I Am…Sasha Fierce” beat out new albums by rockers Nickelback and American Idol winner David Cook. The singer earned her third No. 1 album with 485,000 copies sold.
Meanwhile Nickelback took the No. 2 spot selling 327,000 copies followed by David Cook (289,000). In her new album, Beyoncé unleashes her alter ego, Sasha Fierce. Up until now, her slightly more aggressive ego has only appeared in live performances.
Beyoncé’s new album topped the debut of 2003’s “Dangerously in Love” by approximately 166,000 copes, but followed under “B-Day” released in 2006.
Still, Taylor Swift emerges as the winner of 2008’s biggest female debut with 592,000 albums sold for “Fearless”. The album landed at the No.4 spot this week.
Nickelback has recently announced the launch of a North American tour followed by the success of the album “Dark Horse”. And while debuting at No.3, David Cook won the title of most digital copies sold for a new album, selling 59,000 digital copies.
With “Dark Horse” released on November 18 and an upcoming tour set for late February, Nickelback has a lot to look forward to and wants kids to ditch ‘Guitar Hero’ for real guitars.
“I feel like there’s not enough rock bands out there, especially when we go on the road,” front man Chad Kroeger said to MTV News.
“It’s tough to find other bands out there, because either they’re making a record, or they just got done touring. So kids: Start rock bands. Set down the ‘Guitar Hero,’ learn how to play an actual guitar and start a band, because it’s hard to find more bands to put a solid rock-and-roll package together, to get out there. It’s getting harder and harder, but I think we’ve done it.”
According to Kroeger, the album was not easy to make and took more than six months to create. The band hopes to have even more success then they did with 2005’s “All the Right Reasons,” “The bar’s been raised — it’s pretty high, especially if we are going to be looking back at the last record.
“I think our fans were pretty happy with it, and we made a lot of new fans with that one, and we want to keep ‘em. Call us greedy, but we want to keep ‘em all. We want to keep going back to all those towns and have those people show up and want to sing our songs back at us, twice as loud. That’s why we keep doing what we’re doing. This is a good gig. It’s a lot of fun, and it’s every young kid’s dream.”
Canadian rockband Nickelback were the only Canuks to take home an award at the American Music Awards on Tuesday.
Taking to the stage, Jesus, er, Chad Kroeger, admitted the developed world wasn’t the only collective body to be surprised by the best pop/rock album win.
“This is extremely unexpected,” said the Kroegs. “We just kinda showed up because we were supposed to give one of these away tonight.
“We thought for sure the Chilies were gonna just like clean house tonight.”
Nickelback’s CD, All The Right Reasons, was released in October 2005 and has been on the Billboard 200 for 58 weeks, peaking at No.1, baby!
The single “Far Away” still sits in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 at number 15. It’s been on that chart for 18 weeks, peaking at number eight.
The case over drunk driving charges against Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger has been pushed back.
The provincial court in Surry, BC will now hear the case on September 15, according to the Canadian Press.
Kroeger was charged with impaired driving after being pulled over and registering a blood-alcohol level above .08.
His car was stopped and Kroeger was arrested on June 22 after RCMP officers spotted him driving erratically.
The singer (real name: Chad Robert Turton) is currently on tour with Nickelback in Texas. He is being represented in court by lawyer Marvin Stern.
Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger has been charged with drunk driving stemming from a June 22 incident in Surrey, B.C.
Kroeger, real name Chad Robert Turton, will appear in court on Aug. 25, said Crown Attorney Stan Lowe. CTV.ca reports Kroeger was stopped by two officers in police cruisers after they became suspicious of the way the vehicle was being driven.
The rock singer is charged with impaired driving and driving with a blood alcohol level over .08.
Kroeger’s lawyer released a statement on behalf of the singer that said Kroeger “wishes to make it clear to all his fans that drinking and driving is something that should be avoided at all costs.”
Canadian band Nickelback has joined the million download club, reports the rock group’s label Roadrunner Records.
Nickelback’s single “Photograph” has been downloaded over one million times, according to Neilsen Soundscan?s Release To Date Digital Tracks Chart.
Nickelback is only the sixth act to have a single pass the million download mark.
“Photograph”, from the album All The Right Reasons, hit the mark after 28 weeks, making it the 2nd fastest climb in digital history.
Nickelback’s lead singer, Chad Kroeger, said he was inspired to write “How You Remind Me” after fighting with his girlfriend.
“I was sitting in the basement of my old house in 2000 having just got into a big argument with my girlfriend. So I guess I was feeling pretty jaded at the time,” he said.
“I wanted to write some lyrics that were a slap in the face to her. Even though I do say in the song that I love her, I kind of wanted to throw her a back-handed slap. So I was being very direct, and yelling into the microphone so that she could hear what I was saying. We actually talked about it years later and I told her I wrote the song about her, and she would not believe that she was the ‘How You Remind Me’ girl.”
While “How You Remind Me” was the first hit single for the Canadian band, their latest, “Photograph” has pushed their latest disc, All The Right Reasons, to number one on Billboard charts.
Writing from experience once again, Kroeger penned this song about his teenage years in small town Canada.
“It’s not about a girl. It doesn’t have the same feel as ‘How You Remind Me’ or ‘Someday.’ It’s a bit of a different Nickelback song,” drummer Daniel Adair told a Wisconsin newspaper. “But we thought, ‘Well, maybe it could work, so let’s give it a shot.’ And it took off.”
