Vancouver-based band Nickelback was named Billboard’s Top Band of the Decade after having sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, according to a report in The National Post.

The band, which formed in Hanna, Alberta, pretty much ruled pop rock in the ’00s, with its albums “The State,” “Silver Side Up,” “The Long Road,” “All the Right Reasons” and “Dark Horse.” They’re nominated for a best hard rock performance Grammy for the song, “Burn It to the Ground.”

Despite the band’s sales success, it has been the target of critics for virtually the entire decade. Singer Chad Kroeger told Billboard in 2007, “We’ve just accepted that we’re never going to be the critics’ darlings, and we’re OK with that.”

It’s one thing to not be “the critics’ darlings,” it’s another to be named the worst band in the world. That’s the title readers of Word Magazine in the U.K. recently decided to bestow upon Nickelback, with the band taking 20 percent of the vote.