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| The State | ||||
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| Released | September 1, 1998 September 1999 (first re-release) March 7, 2000 (second re-release) | |||
| Recorded | January–February 1998; Burnaby, British Columbia | |||
| Genre | Post-grunge[1] | |||
| Length | 38:51 | |||
| Label | self-released EMI Music Canada (first and second reissues) Roadrunner (third reissue) | |||
| Producer | Dale Penner | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
The State is the second studio album by Canadian rock band Nickelback. "Leader of Men" was the lead single from this album, followed by "Old Enough", "Breathe", and "Worthy to Say". The album held a peak position of number 130 on the Billboard 200. The album also held a peak position on Billboard Top Heatseekers Albums charts position number 3 in 2000. The album was the band's first album to be certified Gold in both Canada and in the United States. It later went Platinum in Canada in April 2002 and then went Platinum in 2008 in the United States.
- ^ a b Griffith, JT. The State at AllMusic. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press.
- ^ The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 584.