![]() On 12 September 2007, "Rockstar" reached a new peak of #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking higher than "Far Away" did, becoming Nickelback's third Top 10 hit from All the Right Reasons, their fifth career Hot 100 Top Ten overall. "Rockstar" is now the band's best selling digital single to date in the U.S., currently with U.S. When iTunes released their Top Sellers of 2007, "Rockstar" was the 14th best selling digital song of 2007, and the "Rockstar" video was the #1 selling music video on iTunes for 2007. The song climbed as high as #3 on iTunes top 100 selling songs as well as #1 on the chart of the most downloaded music video on iTunes. It has also registered on charts it didn't the first time, such as the Pop 100 Airplay. Since its re-release, the song has experienced great mainstream success, and has become active on most charts again, reaching new peaks on numerous charts like The Hot 100, the Adult Top 40, and Pop 100. The song was re-shipped to radio for ads on 5 June 2007, and a video was made to accompany the re-release. Because the song was released so close together with "Far Away" the band opted to shoot a video for "Far Away" and a video for "Rockstar" was not originally made. It entered the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #54, during its original run. It peaked at #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and #37 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Pop charts, while "Rockstar" instead found moderate success on the rock charts. ![]() Spoken-word vocals between each verse are provided by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.ĭuring the song's original release "Far Away" was more successful on the U.S. and Canada, and has since been re-released worldwide. ![]() single (although later re-released) by the Canadian rock band Nickelback from their 2005 fifth studio album All the Right Reasons. He argued that his band, Snowblind Revival, had performed at the same venue as Nickelback, but the judge said that was not enough: “Johnston has presented no probative evidence that defendants had a reasonable opportunity to hear plaintiff’s work."Rockstar" is the fifth U.S. Johnston sued in May 2020, claiming the hit song had stolen “substantial portions” of his own “Rock Star,” including the “tempo, song form, melodic structure, harmonic structures and lyrical themes.”īut Pitman wrote that Johnston had failed to show that Nickelback had “access” to his song in order to copy it – a key requirement in any copyright lawsuit. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2007 and ultimately spending nearly a year on the chart. ![]() In 2008, the Guardian said the song “makes literally no sense and is the worst thing of all time.” In 2012, Buzzfeed listed it as the second-worst song ever written, citing it as an example of “why everyone hates Nickelback so much.” But the song was a commercial hit, eventually reaching No. Released on Nickelback’s 2005 album, All the Right Reasons, “Rockstar” has not aged well with critics. Rolling Stones Hit With Copyright Lawsuit Over 2020 Song ‘Living in a Ghost Town’Īttorneys for both sides did not immediately return requests for comment on the decision. Pitman specifically pointed to a study that reported 17 other popular songs that had shared similar themes about rock stars, ranging from “So You Want To Be a Rock and Roll Star” by The Byrds in 1966 to “Rockstar” by Poison in 2001. The only real similarities between the two songs, Pitman wrote, were basic clichés - “outlandish stereotypes and images associated with being a huge, famous, rock star” – that cannot be monopolized by any one songwriter. “This includes, for example, any suggestion that the two baseball analogies in Nickelback’s work are evidence that the band copied Johnston’s lyric ‘might buy the Cowboys’ professional football team’ simply because both are ‘references to sports’”, Pitman wrote. But the ruling said that after a review of the lyrics, that accusation at times “borders on the absurd.” Johnston, the lead singer of a Texas band called Snowblind Revival, claimed the two songs shared many closely related lyrics about rock star lifestyles, making huge amounts of money and having famous friends. Ed Sheeran Copyright Accusers Can't Stage 'Let's Get It On' Performance in Courtroom… ![]()
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