Nickleback Heading to Hall of Fame (Canadian) – Screamin’ Scott

There seem to be two types of fans — either they love or hate Nickelback. But no matter what you may think of the group, they will be honored with an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. 

Personally, I don't understand the amount of hate sometimes. I get it when a band is popular in music it seems to get saturated on the airwaves. For Nickelback, I had people, in the beginning, yelling at me about why am I not playing more of the band. Then years later and after 50 million albums sold, they have more than 4.7 billion streams. They became rock and roll punching bags but very rich ones. Their 10th album — “Get Rollin’” — is out now. This isn’t the first time Nickelback has been to the Juno Awards, Canada's answer to a Grammy. They have won the award 12 times.

They’ve been so successful that by the end of the 2000s, Billboard named Nickelback the top band of the decade, coming in seventh overall on the list of top music stars. I remember the first show was back in 2000 at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit. A friend told me these guys are the band to watch. He was right- the show was incredible. Strip down lights and glitz, the show focused on them as a band. In total, I admit proudly to have seen the band three times. Once at DTE and the other at Joe Louis Arena. Not trying to change your mind at all. Proud for any band to go through what they have gone though and get acknowledged for a great achievement award. As for Nickelback in the Rock Hall in Cleveland? If Lionel Richie, N.W.A., and ABBA can be in the Hall why not Nickelback? Congratulations to Chad Kroger and the band.

The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is officially in the books. According to Future Rock Legends, the entire ceremony clocked in at five-and-a-half hours. The show featured ten different performance sets celebrating this year's inductees and paid tribute to past inductees.

As previously reported, fans will get to watch an edited version of the ceremony on Saturday, November 19 at 8 PM ET on HBO. The event will also be simulcast on HBO Max.

Scroll below to see who performed what and which sets featured some surprise guests!

Duran Duran was inducted by Robert Downey Jr. The band's set included "Girls On Film," "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Ordinary World."

Benatar and Giraldo were inducted by Sheryl Crow. Their set included "All Fired Up," "Love Is A Battlefield" and "Heartbreaker."

Priest was inducted by Alice Cooper. The metal band's set was "You've Got Another Thing Comin'," "Breaking the Law" and "Living After Midnight."

Simon didn't appear at the ceremony due to [inlink id="carly-simon-mourns-loss-of-her-two-sisters-who-died-a-day-apart" text="mourning her two sisters Joanna and Lucy, who recently both died a day apart and both as a result of cancer"]. She was honored with performances by Sara Bareilles, who sang "Nobody Does It Better," and Olivia Rodrigo, who sang "You're So Vain."

Lenny Kravitz did the honors of inducting Richie. For his set, Richie performed three songs: "Hello," "Easy" and "All Night Long (All Night)." Richie was joined by special guest Dave Grohl on guitar for "Easy."

U2's The Edge was tapped to induct the Eurythmics into the Rock Hall. The duo's set featured "Would I Lie to You?," "Missionary Man" and "Sweet Dream (Are Made of This)."

Eminem was inducted into the Rock Hall by friend and mentor Dr. Dre. The rapper's set featured six songs and two special guests: "My Name is," "Rap God," "Sing for the Moment" with Steven Tyler, "Stan" with Ed Sheeran, "Forever" and "Not Afraid."

Parton was inducted into the Rock Hall by Pink, who later sang "Coat of Many Colors" with Brandi Carlile. "9 to 5" was performed by Sheryl Crow and the Zac Brown Band, while Parton performed her highly teased rock song aptly named "Rockin'" with the Zac Brown Band.

The 2022 Rock Hall induction ceremony featured a very unique all-star jam of Parton's classic "Jolene." Per Rolling Stone, Parton was joined by Pat Benatar, Brandi Carlile, the Eurythmics' Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart Judas Priest's Rob Halford, Duran Duran's Simon LeBon and Pink.

Springsteen and Mellencamp were both at the ceremony to induct non-performers. The two hit the stage to pay tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis, [inlink id="rock-hall-2022-who-to-expect-at-the-induction" text="who died on October 28 at age 87] and was the last living member of the very first Rock Hall class from 1986. Springsteen and Mellencamp performed "High School Confidential" and "Great Balls of Fire."