"Edge of a Revolution" is a single by Canadian rock band Nickelback from their eighth studio album, ''

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''. It was released as the album's lead single on August 18, 2014. It went for Active Rock adds on August 18, and was premiered on Clear Channel radio stations. It was released for sale on August 19, 2014. This was the first release under Nickelback's new label,

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. It was the official theme song of

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Survivor Series 2014.

Background

The track was first announced on June 18, 2014, in a radio interview on CFOX-FM, where Chad Kroeger, announced that the band picked the first Rock single from the album, then titled "Revolution", to be released sometime in August. The track was described as a departure from Nickelback's original sound, In the interview, Chad stated the song touches upon " fat cats on Wall Street" and was inspired by current events such as the

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and how the government has been treating their citizens. Though in a separate interview, they said that the song was written and recorded before the Ferguson shooting. The song became their eighth number one on the mainstream rock songs chart.

Music video

On August 12, 2014, Nickelback posted on their social media accounts that they were in the midst of two video shoots, first being the music video for the first pop single, "What Are You Waiting For". The following day, they announced "Edge of a Revolution", and later that day they posted pictures from the set of the video for "Edge of a Revolution". The band released the lyric video on August 28, 2014 and they released the music video for the song on September 5, 2014, both through their

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account.

Charts

Release history

References

Nickelback songs 2014 singles 2014 songs Protest songs Political songs Music videos directed by Wayne Isham Songs written by Chad Kroeger Songs written by Ryan Peake Songs written by Mike Kroeger Republic Records singles {{2010s-rock-song-stub