I am going to make a provocative statement and say that Nickelback > Creed. My arguments: Creed do the godawful Christian Rock thing, their videos are basically a conglomeration of random spectacular-looking nonsense in slowmo to create the illusion of profundity, and Scott Stapp sounds like a constipated Eddie Vedder.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99j0zLuNhi8]