Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake, and Brandon Kroeger, who was serving as the band's drummer at the time, established Nickelback in 1995 as a Canadian rock band based in Hanna, Alberta. In spite of the fact that they are best known for their work in the rock genre, the band has also explored other genres of music, including country and pop, in addition to their signature brand of hard rock and post-grunge. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian bands, as evidenced by the fact that they have sold more than 50 million records all over the world. Nickelback is the eleventh top selling musical act of the 2000s, and they are the second greatest selling foreign artist in the United States during the 2000s, behind only The Beatles. Nickelback ranks 11th overall. On the list of Artists of the Decade that was published by Billboard Magazine in December 2009, Nickelback was ranked seventh. This made them the highest-ranked band and the highest-ranked rock artist on the list. Nickelback was also honored with the title of Adult Pop Artist of the Decade by Billboard Magazine. In addition to its six Grammy nominations, the band has won two American Music Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, twelve Juno Awards, and a total of twenty-one other awards. The city of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, serves as the band's home base. The band member Mike Kroeger used to give people a nickel in change when he worked at Starbucks, and he would commonly say, "Here's your nickel back." This is where the name of the band came from..

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