Nickelback To Be Inducted Into Canadian Music Corridor Of Fame: ‘We’re Extremely Flattered’

Nickelback shall be receiving a homegrown honour when the Alberta-born rock band shall be inducted into the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame.

The group’s induction will happen on the 2023 Juno Awards in Edmonton on Monday, March 13, 2023, for which tickets go on sale Friday, Nov. 18.

The group spoke with ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante concerning the induction, and shared their ideas on being honoured on the Junos.

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“It’s exhausting to consider that that’s really an actual factor, to be trustworthy,” mentioned Nickelback guitarist/keyboardist Ryan Peake.

“I’m sort of speechless,” Peake mentioned, jokingly including, “It’s superb for someone to acknowledge that we received’t go away… We didn’t begin enjoying to finish up with one thing like that. I imply, that’s simply it’s an incredible factor to do to have bestowed on you. So sure, we’re extremely flattered.”

Having made their mark on the music scene, each right here in Canada in addition to internationally, has led the group to redefine what success means to them.

“I feel it simply means happiness,” mused Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger. “You already know, now we’re afforded the luxurious of simply with the ability to say, ‘Let’s do what makes us joyful.’ And that’s an exquisite factor as a result of I don’t know that everyone has that. I imply, we made a file that we knew wasn’t going to be commercially viable, however we simply did it anyway as a result of we needed to. You bought to be fairly courageous to only do this.”

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Nickelback’s induction ceremony will function a dwell efficiency by the band and look again at their 20-plus 12 months profession and affect on rock music at residence and across the globe. Thus far, the quarter boasts 23 chart-topping singles and over 10 billion collective streams internationally. Their tenth studio album, Get Rollin’, drops Nov. 18.

As Peake defined, the band is at all times striving to make music that can show partaking to Nickelback followers and the band itself.

“I feel that’s sort of the factor, is that we’re simply shifting ahead and making extra music and simply making an attempt to nonetheless entertain ourselves and entertain the followers in the identical sense,” he mentioned. “And these items are simply, I imply, it’s a fairly nice happenstance to sort of have occur to you. However I assume these are the issues that occur while you’re busy working, proper? That’s the success, it’s that we will nonetheless work and we will nonetheless do what we wish to do, and file stuff how we wish to do it. And I imply, how nice is that?”

In line with Kroeger, that may be a little bit of a balancing act.

“It’s bizarre as a result of I’ve a bit little bit of a mindset the place we’ve made followers with so many various sorts of music. However I wish to maintain all of them joyful, I do,” he mentioned. “I feel lots of people would sit right here with a digicam pointed at them and say, ‘I simply make music for myself’… However I additionally wish to maintain the individuals who have cherished the stuff that we’ve performed prior to now joyful.”

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Actually, Kroeger insists that Nickelback’s followers are prime of thoughts every time they head into the recording studio.

“I’m not so egocentric, like, ‘No, each file is only for me. And if you happen to prefer it, you prefer it. If you happen to don’t, I don’t care.’ Like, that’s such a egocentric factor for me,” he mentioned.

“I’m extra like, you recognize, these individuals who have pushed, flown, no matter it may be, to return see us play after falling in love with sure songs all over the place on this planet, to only write them off and be like, ‘I don’t care which music you want, I’m simply going to make the stuff I like,’ you recognize, I simply discover that to be a bit bit egocentric. We now have an exquisite platform the place we will simply make something we wish, and so it’s pretty to have the ability to do this and to maintain everyone joyful.”

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Added Kroeger: “That retains me joyful as properly, as a result of if we simply made the identical sort of music straight throughout, simply straight, you recognize, it will be mundane and a bit boring. And it’s actually, actually pretty to have the ability to make one thing actually aggressive and rock-heavy and to additionally be capable to do one thing melodic that everyone needs to sing alongside to.”

The 2023 Juno Awards ceremony will seem on the JUNO Awards Broadcast and also will stream dwell throughout Canada, at 6 p.m. MT/8 p.m. ET on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, CBC Hear, and globally at CBCMusic.ca/junos and CBC Music’s Fb, YouTube and Twitter pages.