The Morning After became his first major-label mix album, followed by Abstract Funk Theory for Obsessive.

The following year, Enema of the State, the first major-label release by pop punk band Blink-182, reached the top ten and sold four million copies in under twelve months.

Florida's Yellowcard, which had been together since 1997, had its first hit in 2003 with its major-label debut, Ocean Avenue.

To Venus and Back, a two-disc release of original studio material and live material recorded from the previous world tour, received mostly positive reviews and included the first major-label single available for sale as a digital download.

Their first major-label release was Tim on Sire.

The band's first major-label release was 1997's six-track EP titled Enjoy Incubus, and was necessarily created so the band could represent a recording while touring with Korn in Europe.

They soon became a worldwide sensation with the release of their first major-label album, Middle of Nowhere, which was produced by the Dust Brothers.

Entitled Here & Now ( 2007 ), it would be America's first major-label studio album since Perspective in 1984.

In response to bootlegging of these, he compiled his personal highlights ( and " Evolution ", a collaboration with Ronnie Lane ), and released his first major-label solo title, 1972's Who Came First.

They cut a six-song demo tape in 1992, and their first major-label album, Bargainville, was released the next year.

Their first major-label release, also named Indigo Girls, which scored # 22 on the album chart, included a new version of " Land of Canaan ", which was also on their 1985 EP album and on Strange Fire.

His first major-label album, It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, which included the single " Ruff Ryders Anthem ", was released in May 1998.

In 1994, he recorded his first major-label album, Honor Among Thieves under the Lava Records imprint ( Matchbox Twenty, Kid Rock and Jewel ).

Paradinas ' first major-label release came later in 1994, after he undertook a remix project for Virgin Records.

With the exception of their first album, the group was the first act on Tommy Boy to have major-label distribution through its then-parent Warner Bros. Records.

A Picture of Nectar is the third official studio album and first on a major-label by the American rock band Phish, released on February 12, 1992, through Elektra Records.

Bargainville was a 1993 ( see 1993 in music ) album by Canadian band Moxy Früvous, their first major-label release.

In 2000, Hip-O Records released One Hot July in the U. S., giving White his first new major-label domestic release in 17 years.

After a very brief acting stint in Singles, Tad was offered its first major-label opportunity by Giant Records.

After signing a deal with Island Records, the band recorded their first major-label release, I Am an Elastic Firecracker.

For this first major-label release, titled The Next Hundred Years, Berg added session musicians to Hawkins ' typical solo guitar-and-vocal arrangmements for the first time, and brought national attention and respectable sales to Hawkins ( though Hawkins, in typically contrary fashion, claimed to dislike the result, preferring his unaccompanied versions ).

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

** " ABC " ( Jin song ), Jin's first single off his 4th album " ABC " ( American-born Chinese )

* ABCs ( song ), the first official single by rapper K ' naan on his album Troubadour

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

In 1997, DJ Gruff dissed Articolo 31 in a track titled 1 vs 2 appearing on the first album of the beatmaker Fritz da Cat, but Articolo 31's lawyers obtained a retraction of the record, and its reissue without the song.

Grant has won six Grammy Awards, 25 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album ever to go Platinum.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

he should recall that Dylan called his first cover album Self Portrait.

In 1987, Andersson released his first solo album Klinga Mina Klockor (" Chime, My Bells ").

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track " Write About Love ", was released in the US on 7 September 2010.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

In 1971, his early works were compiled under his first full length album Dünden Bugüne, today commonly referred as Dağlar Dağlar.