OT - Billboard's Band of the Decade - WTF?!?
Posted: 21 Dec 2009 23:50This is a big sign that the 2000s was a weak ass decade for music:
From the Ottawa Citizen
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Billboard magazine has named Nickelback the top band of the decade.
The magazine's decade end chart of top artists of the decade places Nickelback at #9, between 50 Cent at #8 and Britney Spears, at #10. Nickelback was the highest-ranking band of the decade, only finishing behind solo artists Eminem, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Nelly and Usher, for overall impact and importance.
The magazine also names Rapper Eminem as the top artist of the decade and says 'N Sync, led by Justin Timberlake, had the decade’s best-selling album with No Strings Attached, which sold more than 10 million copies.
Despite a distinct lack of critical acclaim, Nickelback — formed in Hanna, Alta. — has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. In the last decade, it released The State (2001), Silver Side Up (2001), The Long Road (2003), All the Right Reasons (2005) and Dark Horse (2008), which has garnered them a 2010 Grammy nomination for best hard-rock performance for the track Burn It To The Ground.
"We've just accepted that we're never going to be the critics' darlings, and we're OK with that,” frontman Chad Kroeger told Billboard in 2007.
But it’s not only music reporters who disagree with Billboard magazine’s assertion.
Readers of the U.K.’s Word Magazine recently voted Nickelback the worst band in the world, with Kroeger and company locking down an impressive 20 per cent of the vote. Looks like not everyone is a fan of greasy, bleached hair and enlightening, philosophical song titles such as Something in Your Mouth and S.E.X.
From top group of the decade to worst band in the world — only Nickelback could be so polarizing.
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From the Ottawa Citizen
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Billboard magazine has named Nickelback the top band of the decade.
The magazine's decade end chart of top artists of the decade places Nickelback at #9, between 50 Cent at #8 and Britney Spears, at #10. Nickelback was the highest-ranking band of the decade, only finishing behind solo artists Eminem, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Nelly and Usher, for overall impact and importance.
The magazine also names Rapper Eminem as the top artist of the decade and says 'N Sync, led by Justin Timberlake, had the decade’s best-selling album with No Strings Attached, which sold more than 10 million copies.
Despite a distinct lack of critical acclaim, Nickelback — formed in Hanna, Alta. — has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. In the last decade, it released The State (2001), Silver Side Up (2001), The Long Road (2003), All the Right Reasons (2005) and Dark Horse (2008), which has garnered them a 2010 Grammy nomination for best hard-rock performance for the track Burn It To The Ground.
"We've just accepted that we're never going to be the critics' darlings, and we're OK with that,” frontman Chad Kroeger told Billboard in 2007.
But it’s not only music reporters who disagree with Billboard magazine’s assertion.
Readers of the U.K.’s Word Magazine recently voted Nickelback the worst band in the world, with Kroeger and company locking down an impressive 20 per cent of the vote. Looks like not everyone is a fan of greasy, bleached hair and enlightening, philosophical song titles such as Something in Your Mouth and S.E.X.
From top group of the decade to worst band in the world — only Nickelback could be so polarizing.
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