Nickelback Extends 2010 Dark Horse Tour With Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown and Sick Puppies With Second Leg of Arena Dates

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy-nominated and Billboard Magazine's group of the decade, Nickelback, announced today they have extended their Dark Horse World Tour into June 2010. With tickets for the first leg of the 2010 Dark Horse World Tour already on sale and on pace to break new sales records for the band, Nickelback adds 19 more dates to the tour and will be joined by Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown and Sick Puppies. Tickets for the new dates go on sale beginning January 16th on LiveNation.com.

Nickelback fan club members will have access to presale tickets beginning January 8th in select markets. Citi® cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning January 11th at 10am local time through Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Additional information on the tour, ticket on sales, fan club membership and VIP packages is available at Nickelback.com and LiveNation.com.

    NICKELBACK DARK HORSE 2010 TOUR

    Date:                  City:            Venue:              On Sale Date:
    Tue/Apr-06             London, ON       John Labatt Centre  on sale now
    Thu/Apr-08             Toronto, ON      Air Canada Centre   on sale now
    Fri/Apr-09             Montreal, PQ     Bell Centre         on sale now
    Sun/Apr-11             Ottawa, ON       Scotiabank Place    on sale now
    Tue/Apr-13             Washington, DC   Verizon Center      on sale now
    Wed/Apr-14             Hampton VA       Hampton Coliseum    on sale now*
    Fri/Apr-16             Greenville, SC   Bi Lo Center        on sale now*
    Sat/Apr-17             Greensboro, NC   Greensboro Coliseum on sale now*
    Mon/Apr-19             Orlando, FL      Amway Arena         on sale now*
    Wed/Apr-21             Atlanta, GA      Philips Arena       on sale now
    Fri/Apr-23             St. Louis, MO    Scottrade Center    16-Jan
    Sat/Apr-24             Tulsa, OK        BOK Center          on sale now
    Mon/Apr-26             Kansas City, MO  Sprint Center       16-Jan
    Wed/May-05             Spokane, WA      Spokane Arena       23-Jan
    Fri/May-07             Tacoma, WA       Tacoma Dome         16-Jan
    Sat/May-08             Portland, OR     Memorial Coliseum   16-Jan
    Mon/May-10             Nampa, ID        Idaho Center        16-Jan
    Fri/May-14             Wichita, KS      INTRUST Bank Arena  23-Jan
    Sat/May-15             Dallas, TX       American Airlines   16-Jan
                                             Ctr
    Tue/May-18             Rosemont, IL     Allstate Arena      16-Jan
    Wed/May-19             Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena     23-Jan
    Fri/May-21             Milwaukee, WI    Bradley Center      16-Jan

    Sat/May-22             Noblesville, IN  Verizon Wireless    23-Jan
                                             Music Ctr
    Mon/May-24             Minneapolis, MN  Target Center       16-Jan
    Tue/May-25             Omaha, NE        Qwest Center        23-Jan
    Thu/May-27             Fargo, ND        Fargodome           23-Jan
    Sat/May-29             Saskatoon, SK    Credit Union Center 23-Jan

    Mon/May-31             Calgary, AB      Pengrowth           23-Jan
                                             Saddledome
    Tue/Jun-01             Edmonton, AB     Rexall Place        23-Jan

    Thu/Jun-03             Vancouver, BC    General Motors      23-Jan
                                             Place

    *Shinedown not included.

2009 was another stellar year for Nickelback, with their album Dark Horse already multi-platinum. Billboard Magazine's decade end issue awarded Nickelback several accolades, including Group of the Decade, Top Adult Top 40 Artist of the Decade, Top Rock Song of the Decade with "How You Remind Me" and Top Mainstream Rock Song Artist. The band also ranked high in the magazine's 2009 wrap up, being awarded Top Rock Album Artist, Top Rock Album for Dark Horse, Top Alternative Artist, Top Alternative Album for Dark Horse, Top Hard Rock Artist and Top Hard Rock Album for Dark Horse.

Nickelback is one of the biggest rock bands in the world, with over 35 million albums sold. The band's latest album, Dark Horse, produced by the legendary Mutt Lange, debuted at number two on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and has remained on the Top 200 for 50 weeks selling over 2.4 million albums in the US alone. Nickelback is currently nominated for Grammy in the Best Hard Rock Performance category for "Burn It To The Ground."

The latest single from Dark Horse, "Never Gonna Be Alone," is already top 10 at Hot AC and heating up quickly at Pop, where it is currently top 30. The video for "Never Gonna Be Alone" is in rotation at MTV, MTV2, MTV Hits, Vh1, Fuse and Music Choice. The video was shot by veteran director and longtime Nickelback friend Nigel Dick.

Nickelback has enjoyed unprecedented success with their last album, All The Right Reasons, which has been RIAA certified 8X platinum. The six singles from the album totaled 12 million downloads and 6 million ringtones. All proceeds of digital single and video sales for "If Everyone Cared" between February 1 and July 31, 2007 were donated to charity, equally distributed between Amnesty International and International Childrens' Awareness Canada. Each of the five videos from All The Right Reasons has reached #1 on VH1's playlist: "Photograph," "Savin' Me," "Far Away," "If Everyone Cared" and "Rockstar." In 2006 Nickelback was awarded a World Music Award for "World's Best Rock Group," a Billboard Touring Award for "Breakthrough Artist," an American Music Award for "Favorite Pop/Rock Album" and a People's Choice Award for "Best Rock Group."

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