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Nickelback To Be Inducted Into Canadian Music Hall Of Fame: тАШWeтАЩre Incredibly FlatteredтАЩ

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By Brent Furdyk.

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

The groupтАЩs induction will take place at 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 CanadaтАЩs Carlos Bustamante about the induction, and shared their thoughts on being honoured at the Junos.


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тАЬItтАЩs hard to believe that thatтАЩs actually a real thing, to be honest,тАЭ said Nickelback guitarist/keyboardist Ryan Peake.

тАЬIтАЩm kind of speechless,тАЭ Peake said, jokingly adding, тАЬItтАЩs amazing for somebody to recognize that we wonтАЩt go awayтАж We didnтАЩt start playing to end up with something like that. I mean, thatтАЩs just itтАЩs an amazing thing to do to have bestowed on you. So yes, weтАЩre incredibly flattered.тАЭ

Having made their mark on the music scene, both here in Canada as well as internationally, has led the group to redefine what success means to them.

тАЬI think it just means happiness,тАЭ mused Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger. тАЬYou know, now we are afforded the luxury of just being able to say, тАШLetтАЩs do what makes us happy.тАЩ And thatтАЩs a wonderful thing because I donтАЩt know that everybody has that. I mean, we made a record that we knew wasnтАЩt going to be commercially viable, but we just did it anyway because we wanted to. You got to be pretty brave to just do that.тАЭ


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NickelbackтАЩs induction ceremony will feature a live performance by the band and look back at their 20-plus year career and influence on rock music at home and around the globe. To date, the quarter boasts 23 chart-topping singles and over 10 billion collective streams internationally. Their 10th studio album, Get RollinтАЩ, drops Nov. 18.

As Peake explained, the band is always striving to make music that will prove engaging to Nickelback fans and the band itself.

тАЬI think thatтАЩs kind of the thing, is that weтАЩre just moving forward and making more music and just trying to still entertain ourselves and entertain the fans in the same sense,тАЭ he said. тАЬAnd these things are just, I mean, itтАЩs a pretty great happenstance to kind of have happen to you. But I guess those are the things that happen when youтАЩre busy working, right? ThatтАЩs the success, itтАЩs that we can still work and we can still do what we want to do, and record stuff how we want to do it. And I mean, how great is that?тАЭ

According to Kroeger, that can be a bit of a balancing act.

тАЬItтАЩs weird because I have a little bit of a mindset where weтАЩve made fans with so many different kinds of music. But I want to keep them all happy, I do,тАЭ he said. тАЬI think a lot of people would sit here with a camera pointed at them and say, тАШI just make music for myselfтАЩтАж But I also want to keep the people who have loved the stuff that weтАЩve done in the past happy.тАЭ


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In fact, Kroeger insists that NickelbackтАЩs fans are top of mind whenever they head into the recording studio.

тАЬIтАЩm not so selfish, like, тАШNo, every record is just for me. And if you like it, you like it. If you donтАЩt, I donтАЩt care.тАЩ Like, thatтАЩs such a selfish thing for me,тАЭ he said.

тАЬIтАЩm more like, you know, these people who have driven, flown, whatever it might be, to come see us play after falling in love with certain songs everywhere in the world, to just write them off and be like, тАШI donтАЩt care which song you like, IтАЩm just going to make the stuff I like,тАЩ you know, I just find that to be a little bit selfish. We have a wonderful platform where we can just make anything we want, and so itтАЩs lovely to be able to do that and to keep everybody happy.тАЭ


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Added Kroeger: тАЬThat keeps me happy as well, because if we just made the same kind of music straight across, just straight, you know, it would be mundane and a little boring. And itтАЩs really, really lovely to be able to make something really aggressive and rock-heavy and to also be able to do something melodic that everybody wants to sing along to.тАЭ

The 2023 Juno Awards ceremony will appear on the JUNO Awards Broadcast and will also stream live across Canada, at 6 p.m. MT/8 p.m. ET on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Radio One, CBC Music, CBC Listen, and globally at CBCMusic.ca/junos┬аand CBC MusicтАЩs┬аFacebook,┬аYouTube┬аand┬аTwitter pages.

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