Despite the album's record sales it wasn't able to top the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 2.

Despite the album's erratic lyrical content and instrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstream audiences, Boys for Pele is Amos's most successful simultaneous transatlantic release, reaching # 2 on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Top 40 upon its release at the height of her fame.

Despite the concerns about the album's uncommercial sound, Pornography became the band's first UK Top 10 album, charting at number eight.

Despite the album's official title, which emphasised group identity, studio efforts on The Beatles captured the work of four increasingly individualised artists who frequently found themselves at odds.

Despite this, " Maria " was chosen as the album's second single, and became a breakthrough hit, reaching number one in France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Turkey, and the entire continent of South America.

" Despite the lengthy studio work and resources utilized, and the album's later legendary status, Easter Everywhere was not the success the band and International Artists had hoped for.

Despite being well received by critics as their best album since Dare ( the music climate at the time seeing a new interest in electronic pop music with the electroclash movement ), the band's new record label, Papillon developed financial problems, and was closed by the parent company shortly after the album's release, leading to poor promotion and sales.

Despite having problems with manager Paul Ahern, being caught in the middle of a fight between Ahern and his business partner Charles McKenzie, and doing most of the recording work alone, Scholz completed the second Boston album two years after the debut album's release.

Despite the album's unimpressive sales figures, the band's video for " Bringin ' On the Heartbreak " became one of the first metal videos played on MTV in 1982, bringing the band increased visibility in the U. S. After the album's release, a European tour followed.

Despite this, the album did not sell well, though one of the album's tracks, " Our Affair ", was remixed and featured in the Gwyneth Paltrow / Ben Affleck film " Bounce ".

Despite this, the album's producer, Paul Rothchild, considered it a commercial failure, even if it was an artistic triumph: " We all thought it was the best album.

Despite containing some of the bands favored live tracks, including " Blown Away ," " The Bland Within ," " District " and " America ," some fans felt alienated by the album's progressive nature and in a recent interview, frontman Lou Koller claimed that the album's cover art probably contributed to its poor reception.

Despite the album's success, tension between Mascis and Barlow began interfering with the band's productivity, and in 1989, after touring in support of Bug, Barlow was kicked out of the band.

Despite the album's independent release, it reached number 14 in the UK Albums Chart and reached Silver status, selling over 100, 000 copies.

Despite the album's poor sound quality and virtually inexistent label promotion, it created enough controversy around the group to allow them get signed by Cat Music, one of the largest Romanian record labels, paving their way to national superstardom.

Despite the success of the album's lead single, " Step Up ," the album was not nearly as successful as Sinner.

Despite the album's poor performance, financially it was not disastrous because the album was very cheap to record.

Despite the album's thematic shift, Dylan performed the entirety of Another Side of Bob Dylan as he had previous records – solo.

Despite this imagery, and despite comments made by backing vocalist Andrea Meyer styling herself the band's " satanic advisor ", the album's lyrics make scant mention of Satan or Satanism.

Despite the album's critical and commercial success, Chris Martin said that Coldplay didn't like the album.

Despite the album's commercial success, the record label GRT went into receivership.

Despite the album's incongruity in the Bowie catalogue, some commentators have discerned embryonic themes that inform the artist's more mature work.

Despite these hit singles, the album failed to do well in the United States, while in the UK it went triple platinum and remained in the album chart for two years.

Despite the high budgets that came from the series — triple the budget of typical Popeye one-reelers — Superman became the most successful cartoons in the late period of the studio.

Despite this, the album Monkey Business debuted at number two on the U. S. Billboard 200 albums chart, selling over 295, 000 copies in its first week and was later certified triple platinum by the RIAA.

Despite an initial sharp economic slowdown and numerous corporate bankruptcies, South Korea has managed to triple its per capita GDP in dollar terms since 1997.

Despite its triple platinum start, the soundtrack LP's sales bombed after the film's release.

" Despite paying child support every month since his release via wage garnishment, Brandley's child support total reached $ 73, 000 in 2003, when a judge reduced his total to $ 22, 000 ; however, this amount is still more than triple the $ 7, 000 in back child support Brandley owed at the time of his arrest in 1980.

Despite being reinstated as a competitor in late 2001, he only played one event in 2002 ( placing 2nd to John Juanda in the $ 1, 500 triple draw lowball Ace to Five event ).

Despite a 6-5 record, Fernandez had 123 strikeouts and a 2. 56 ERA in with the triple A Tidewater Tides to earn a call-up to New York in mid-July.

Despite being injured, Paris returned on June 12 during a triple threat match for the Heavyweight Championship between Hayes, Young and Chris Harris and helped Harris defeat Hayes and Young to win the Heavyweight Title.

Despite a moderate peak of 26 on the Billboard 200 album chart, the album went on to be certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA, for sales exceeding 2 million copies in the US alone.

Despite critics claiming her record sales were low when compared to other Idol finalists such as Season 1 winner Guy Sebastian, Season 1 Runner-up Shannon Noll and even her own runner-up Anthony Callea, Donovan has achieved 5 Platinum accreditations, making her the sixth highest selling Australian Idol alumni overall.

Despite the negative response, the game sold enough copies to receive Greatest Hits ( Platinum Edition in Europe ) status on the Sony PlayStation 2 and Player's Choice status on the Nintendo GameCube.

Despite struggling with a revolving cast of members, Champion were able to regroup in 2000 and release the Come Out Swinging EP on Platinum Recordings ( Germany ).

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands ".

Despite widespread use, however, the ISO certification process has been criticized as being wasteful and not being useful for all organizations.

Despite the favorable critiques, the album sold far less than the previous two, not reaching the top 10 and not receiving any certification.

Despite an unauthorized written speed certification by the United States Air Force ( USAF ), there is much debate over the validity of the claim.

Despite this, a few 1975 and 1976 Ninety Eights were released from this catalytic converter requirement in Canada and were given certification along with exemption from requiring unleaded gasoline.

Despite a June 2008 certification by the United Nations that Israel had withdrawn from all Lebanese territory, in August, Lebanon's new Cabinet unanimously approved a draft policy statement which secures Hezbollah's existence as an armed organization and guarantees its right to " liberate or recover occupied lands.

Despite this, it became the first Black Sabbath album to not have any RIAA certification in the US.

" Despite this, the album received a Gold certification in Mexico.

Despite opposition from open shop contractors, in Ontario, the Liberal government recently reinstituted the card-based certification system that was in place for most of the post-World War II period.

Despite Special Occasion's gold certification, Valentino was reportedly frustrated with the album's delays and less than expected sales, culminating in his decision to leave the labels.

Despite attempts to harmonize the requirements between nations, the differences in certification practices and standards from place to place serve to limit full international validity of the national qualifications.

Despite orders for the aircraft, the company announced in August 2008 that development of the Eclipse 400 was on hold and it had not started the certification process.

Despite being only halfway through its period of mainline certification, Bradley Manor did not run on the mainline beyond 2007.

Despite this the African-American community would continue to progress with the establishment of Bishop College in 1881 and the certification of Wiley by the Freedman's Aid Society in 1882.

Despite its low peak on the Hot 100, the song managed to sell more than 500, 000 downloads, earning a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America in October 2009.