It has finally happened: 2016 has arrived, and with it the hype regarding Nickelback’s new singles has skyrocketed. After the announcement the band made in late November 2015, the Toike’s best reporters were granted an exclusive interview.

“It’s been tough over the past few years: the mockery, the teasing, the seemingly endless jokes that we have been forced to endure” says lead singer Chad Kroeger. “But we’ve worked through it, and are stronger because of it. We are now happy to announce that we will be releasing 10 new songs this year that we think you are going to love.”

In order to write their songs, the band spent long hours in the most exotic and dangerous places in the world in order to capture “raw emotion”. This included meditating in the Tibetan mountains for hours on end, bush-whacking through Brazilian rainforests, paddling the Nile river, swimming in Australia during shark season, and crashing the UTSU AGM. They hope that the lyrics will “touch your heart in all the right places… and all the right ways.”

After polling 1000 participants actually willing to listen to brief samples of each song, we created a list of what we think are the top 5 that people are most excited about. The list is as follows:

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