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Rockstar attracted little attention when it was initially released in 2005 as part of Nickelback's fifth studio album All The Right Reasons. However, after starting to pick up interest digitally in 2007 after a video was made of the track, its popularity went into overdrive last year to finish as not only the biggest catalogue single of the year but the fifth biggest seller overall.
Building on nearly 66,000 downloads sales a year earlier, the single sold 469,652 units in 2008, helped by finally being made available physically. The Roadrunner release is one of two tracks by the Canadian band in the year-end catalogue top five and one of three in the 20 with the same album's Photograph at five and 2001's How You Remind Me at 18.
Runner-up Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley had already enjoyed a notable boost in the US last March when contestant Jason Castro performed the song in Buckley's style on American Idol, but, building on consistently strong sales on the other side ...