A multiplatinum-selling band that was among the first 10 acts to play at Allentown’s PPL Center when it kicked off a tour there in 2015, will return to play the second date of its next tour, it was announced.
Nickelback, which had 11 chart-topping songs from 2001-08, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8.
Opening the show will be English rock band Don Broco, which this year had a Top 25 Hard Rock chart hit with "Nightmare Tripping" with Nickelback.
Tickets, at $102.80-$450, are available at www.pplcenter.com, at the arena box office at 701 Hamilton St., or at 610-347-TIXX.
The group’s song “Bones for the Crows" recently hit No. 1 on both the Rock and Alternative digital songs charts, and its singles “Rattle the Cage (featuring John 5)” and “Make Me Love You” both hit the Top 3 on the Hard Rock chart.
All of those singles are from Nickelback’s album “Everything Under the Sun,” released Oct. 30 – its first album since 2022’s “Get Rollin’,” which peaked at No. 30 on the overall Albums chart.
The tour to promote “Everything Under the Sun” will kick off Feb. 6 in Pittsburgh – the only other Pennsylvania date on the 39-date North American tour that continues through May 7.
In all, Nickelback has sold more than 25 million albums and nearly 60 million singles in the United States alone, with 15 gold and platinum singles.
The Canadian group once held the record for the most No. 1 songs on the Adult Pop Songs radio airplay chart, which debuted in 1996 — a mark that was broken in 2011 by Doylestown native Pink.
Nichelback’s song “Photograph” is the Adult Pop Songs’ No. 19 song of all time and “Someday” the chart’s No. 20 song of all time.
Nickelback started its string of hits with 2001’s platinum “How You Remind Me” from its third album, “Silver Side Up.” The disc eventually sold six times platinum and hit No. 2 on the albums chart.
The group followed that with the triple-platinum album “The Long Road” in 2003. That album produced the gold hits “Someday” and “Figured You Out.”
But the group had its biggest success with its 2005 album “All the Right Reasons,” which went 10 times platinum and had three No. 1 hits: the gold “Photograph,” “Far Away” and “If Everyone Cared.”
The group has received nine Grammy Award nominations, but hasn’t won any.
Nickelback drew fewer than 6,000 people to the Great Allentown Fair in 2005, shortly before the release of “All the Right Reasons.” It was the eighth act ever announced at PPL Center after it opened in 2014, and nearly sold out the 10,000-capacity PPL Center in its previous stop.
Despite is commercial success, Nickelback also has drawn derision. In 2013, Rolling Stone magazine readers chose Nickelback as the second worst band of the 1990s. In 2011, Detroit Lions linebacker Dennis Guttman started an online petition that drew 50,000 signatures asking the team not to have Nickelback play during halftime of its annual Thanksgiving game.
Don Broco’s sound blends elements of metal, post-hardcore and electronica. “Nightmare Tripping” is the title track from its forthcoming album.
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