I think the first three songs that were in the category for first single were “Too Bad,” “Never Again,” and “How You Remind Me.” We sent them to the label and there was an unequivocal, “It’s going to be ‘ How You Remind Me ’ first. That’s why we don’t let Mike pick singles. Rumor has it Mike wanted “Never Again” to be the lead single instead of “How You Remind Me.” Is that true? Over Zoom from his home in Vancouver, B.C., Kroeger spoke to Billboard about “How You Remind Me,” Nickelback’s career-defining hit, the rock music landscape of the early 2000s, and just what it is like to become the “longest overnight success in the world, ” 20 years removed from that “ night. I think even some urban and country stations p layed i t.” I mean, HUGE! … There was a period I would get in the car and almost any station I’d hit on the radio you’d hear the song, whether it was rock, active rock, alt rock, hot AC, AC, pop, etc. ’ Little did I know how big it would ultimately become. “ It was a first listen, and I remember saying, ‘ Damn, that’s a big song, it is going to be a hit. “ To be honest, I got chills when the band played it for me ,” Burman says of hearing “How You Remind Me” for the first time. 6.) But it all started with “How You Remind Me.” which proved to be Nickelback’s calling card in later singles, like “Photograph” (which peaked at No. They had made it.įrom there, the ascent to stardom was swift: Sil ver Side Up ultimately went 6x platinum - largely thanks to the ubiquity of its lead single, but also the album’s moody melodies and chunky chord progressions. The band moved from clubs to arenas, passenger vans to tour buses.

Eventually “How You Remind Me” became the most-played radio song of the entire decade - spun over 1.2 million times since its 2001 release - regardless of genre. In 2002, it was Grammy nominated for Record of the Year. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 that same year. The song, a mid-tempo power-ballad about a relationship on the outs - a far cry from the album’s other singles, like “Never Again,” a metallic treatise on domestic violence, or “Too Bad,” which centers absent fathers - was an instant hit, peaking at No.

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