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 triple Platinum certification, its commercial and critical success was lower than his previous album.

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 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 many decades as a leading producer, there is little risk of depletion.

Despite its strong Australian showing, and having an American producer ( Peter McIan ), Business as Usual was twice rejected by Columbia's parent company in the United States.

Despite his character's prominence, Kelley's contract granted him only a " featuring " credit ; it was not until the second season that he was given " starring " credit, at the urging of producer Robert Justman.

Despite his successes at MGM, Paramount Pictures, and RKO Pictures, Selznick longed to be an independent producer with his own studio.

Despite this handicap, her strong performance brought her to the attention of Hollywood producer Stanley Kramer.

Despite their success, rumors began to surface about the duo, and were confirmed later that year, when Milli Vanilli's svengali producer and manager, Frank Farian, publicly revealed that the two hadn't performed a single note on their album.

Despite this, producer Kopelson refused to allow the film to include the head-in-a-box scene.

Despite the hiatus, in 2006 Brad Roberts began to casually record the album that would become Oooh La La with producer and friend Stewart Lerman, using the optigan and omnichord.

Despite his involvement in many facets of British comedy as a producer, writer and performer, Iannucci has remained relatively unknown amongst the British public.

Despite the personal flavor of the piece -- with Couric saying how she still remembered receiving her first library card -- it was later determined that a producer had written the commentary instead of Couric, and that she had plagiarized from Zaslow's column.

Despite the trend towards multi-channel recording, Spector was vehemently opposed to stereo releases, claiming that it took control of the record's sound away from the producer in favor of the listener.

Despite most of his songs being written by Akio Inoue and composed / arranged by Daisuke Asakura ( also TMR ’ s former producer ), T. M. Revolution is considered Nishikawa ’ s solo project.

Despite Jeffrey Wigand's commitment to honor the confidentiality agreement and his initial refusal to talk to Lowell Bergman, producer of 60 Minutes, Wigand claimed that he and his family were anonymously stalked, intimidated and threatened with death should he talk.

Despite many decades as a leading producer, there is little risk of depletion.

Despite his resentment, Hatch developed a respect for Ronald D. Moore, the new series ' writer and producer, when he appeared as a featured guest at Galacticon ( the Battlestar Galactica 25th anniversary convention, hosted by Hatch ) and answered questions posed by a very hostile audience.

Despite his lack of consistent commercial success, Epic Records signed Rich in 1967, mainly on the recommendation of producer Billy Sherrill.

Despite being canceled, the director, Orson Welles ( Angus Macfadyen ), and producer, John Houseman ( Cary Elwes ), lead the cast to another theater that was secured at the last minute.

Despite Ruth's success with the Red Sox, owner and Broadway producer Frazee lost his patience with Ruth, who had threatened to hold out in lieu of a larger contract and become a distraction.

Despite these oppositions, there was little argument that Ebersol possessed a keen sense of business politics, which eventually helped revive a show that would have otherwise died at the hands of an inexperienced producer.

Despite Brando's dedication, the producer, Stanley Kramer, and director, Fred Zinnemann, were at first worried about Brando's performance in rehearsals because he mumbled his lines and gave little response to his fellow actors.

( Despite several Common Agricultural Policy reforms, domestic support for wheat-as measured by OECD producer support estimates-declined only marginally from an average 52 % of gross farm receipts in 1986-88, to around 48 % in 1998-2000.

Despite his ability, early Kinks recordings ( including hits such as " You Really Got Me ") commonly did not feature Avory on drums ; producer Shel Talmy hired more seasoned session drummers ( most notably Clem Cattini and Bobby Graham ) for studio work well into 1965, but with Avory often providing supporting percussion.

Despite Marge's reservations, the couple attend the party, where they meet lots of famous people, including actor Woody Harrelson, then-U. S. President Bill Clinton, TV producer Lorne Michaels and actor Ed Begley, Jr. Max finds out that the garden party is nothing more than an excuse to save a redwood forest from destruction, something which Max does not like.

Despite their artistic disagreements with King, Rutherford maintains that Genesis owes the producer a debt of gratitude: Jonathan King, for all his faults-he has a funny reputation in England-did give us a fantastic opportunity.