After a slow start, his country-flavored hit " Picture " with Sheryl Crow resurrected the album and it went gold as a single and pushed the album's sales over 5 million.

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

The album's first week sales were the second highest of any album that year, a significant achievement for a hard rock band at a time when music charts were largely dominated by hip hop and teen-pop acts.

Metal Rhythms sales were arguably confounded by the lack of strong promotion and IRS's inappropriate choices of singles ( the record label also changed the album's title to New Anger, changed the album colour shade from black to blue, and remixed several of its tracks for its American release against Numan's wishes ).

Proceeds from the album's sales benefited breast cancer research.

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.

The next album, Spitfire, was released in June 1976 and while it went platinum, reached No. 3, and included the hit song " With Your Love " (# 12 ), the band considered the album's sales to be relatively disappointing compared to its predecessor and requested an audit from RCA Records, distributor of their Grunt label.

Arguments over which songs to release as singles, the album's artwork, the track sequencing, the slow album sales, and the omission of DeYoung's vocals and keyboards from many of the Shaw / Young tracks fueled the fire.

However, the album's low sales restricted their playing venues to small clubs, and caused Clive Davis and the record label to intervene.

The songs " Girl Inside My Head " and " Just for Me " received airplay, but the album's sales fell somewhat short of expectations.

The album also listed her as Polly Jean Harvey, which in part affected the album's sales.

The successful release of the singles bolstered the album's sales, eventually selling over eight million copies in the United States, gaining eight-time platinum certification by the RIAA.

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.

The album's sales were poor, and it peaked at only No. 123.

The band became a relative success after Music for People, but the album's poor sales and lack of a second charting single led to tension between Elektra and Crosby.

However, despite a plethora of renowned producers such as DJ Muggs, this did not translate into a hit with mainstream hip-hop audiences, and the album's sales were considered a disappointment.

The legal incident that had occurred in February reflected in the album's sales, as it moved an impressive 55, 000 units with no music video or radio single promoting it.

Proceeds from the album's sales benefited The Nature Conservancy.

In 1995, the band recorded an album's worth of brand-new material for Zoo Entertainment, but due to the poor sales of 333 and ongoing problems with the struggling label which would eventually lead to it being merged with Volcano Entertainment in 1996, the album was not released.

After pressure from representatives from American Recordings, who did not want to release an unlabeled album for fear that sales would plummet, Danzig relented and allowed a sticker reading " Danzig 4 " to be placed on the album's cellophane wrapper.

Mayes claimed that the album's recall did seriously affect their commercial sales.

While America Town did not reach the top 50 of the Billboard 200 album charts, the album's second single, " Easy Tonight ", became a # 1 Triple A song and consistent album sales eventually led to its going platinum.

The album's sales have been driven not only by its popularity with Hawaiian audiences but by its popularity in the mainland United States and around the world, particularly the track " Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World ," which has been licensed for use in movies ( Finding Forrester, Meet Joe Black, 50 First Dates, Fred Claus, Hubble 3D, Son of the Mask ) television shows ( ER, Cold Case, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Life On Mars, Glee ), and commercials ( eToys ).

Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant " Italian Plastic ", which became a crowd favourite at concerts and the hidden track " I'm Still Here ".

Though it topped the country albums charts, it stalled at No. 71 on the pop albums chart ; the album's single, " Light of a Clear Blue Morning " only reached No. 87 on the Hot 100.

The album's debut at number seventeen on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart has been the highest in her career.

The album's lead single, " She's Every Woman " peaked at number-one on the Billboard Country Chart, however its follow-up single, " The Fever " ( a cover of an Aerosmith song ) only peaked at number 23, becoming Brooks's first released Country single to not chart on the Top 10.

The album's final single was " Blue Jeans and a Rosary " which was a minor country hit at No. 50.

The album's rich acoustic sound initially received mixed reactions, with critics and fans surprised at the turn from the primarily electric arrangements of the first two albums, fuelling further hostility to the musical press.

Although the children are not shown from the front, the cover was controversial at the time of the album's release.

The album was received with mostly favorable reviews and sold enough copies to chart at # 12 on the Billboard 200, a significantly higher position than the preceding album's position at # 54 on the same chart.

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.

The creation of the album's title track was something of an accident ; the band was experimenting in the studio with a recently acquired Moog synthesizer, and the tape happened to be rolling at the time.

The album's lead single, the gospel-based " Tender ", opened at the second spot on the charts.

" The album's fourth single, the double A-side release " Alright "/" Time ", stayed in British Top Three for a month, peaking at number two.

Her streak of five consecutive gold Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 ended when the album's first single, " Something Better to Do ", stopped at No. 13 ( also No. 19 Country and No. 1 AC ).

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

He is reputed to have given the album its name by throwing a tomato at a showing of the art used for the album's cover.

However, after spending half of the album's budget on drugs, alcohol, and food the band was forced to fire their original producer and produce the album themselves, at the Indigo Ranch Studios, in Malibu, California.

Comfort Eagle itself was released on July 24, 2001, to good reviews ; Michael D. Clark of The Houston Chronicle described it as " Cake at its best ", while a reviewer for the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution stated that the album's songs were " among the best of the band's career ", praising McCrea for widening his vocal repertoire.

Lennon displayed two of the album's promotional ' baby bumper stickers ' in the sunroom at his home.

To support the album's release the group had been scheduled to play at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

It reflects on the story, as two friends-who seem to be at the top-drift away from each other and begin to despise each other, mirroring the bandmates ' turbulent relationship and eventual splitting of the band shortly after the album's release.

After seven weeks, the album's time at the top seemed over, but Beatles for Sale made a comeback on 27 February 1965, by dethroning The Rolling Stones and returning to the top spot for a week.