The State (album)

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 #130 on the Billboard 200. The album also held a peak position on Billboard Top Heatseekers Albums charts position #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.

Background
The State was recorded in 1998. In September 1998, The State was released independently with a blue album cover. In September of the next year, it was reissued on EMI Canada, with a re-formatted version of the original cover (the words "Nickelback" and "The State" were originally in yellow, in the same size near the right edge of the cover, on the EMI reissue, the word "Nickelback" was made into a bigger font and "The State" rendered in white, at the top of the cover). In 2000, it was reissued again on EMI Canada, this time with different artwork featuring a young boy in a jail cell. This was also the artwork used on the American, European and Australian releases on Roadrunner Records. In 2000 The State reached the Billboard 200 peaking 130. To support The State, Nickelback toured with 3 Doors Down, Creed, Sevendust, and Stone Temple Pilots. In early of 2001 the band played its final dates with Everclear. In March 2001 Nickelback won its first Juno Award for Best New Group.

The album had four singles, "Leader of Men", "Breathe", "Old Enough" and "Worthy to Say". "Leader of Men" and "Breathe", charted on the top 10 of the Mainstream Rock Tracks.