The album did not fare as well as their debut in the US, only reaching number 40, but it achieved Australasian success, reaching number one in Australia and number two in New Zealand.

In 1985, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion achieved their only UK Number One album-and the best-selling album of their career-with Misplaced Childhood, a concept album featuring lyrics by frontman Fish which were partly autobiographical.

In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single " Fame " and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as " plastic soul ".

Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.

Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.

Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song " Orinoco Flow " ( sometimes incorrectly known as " Sail Away ").

Everlast achieved multi-platinum solo fame in 1998 with his album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues.

They achieved the same distinction of a simultaneous No. 1 album and No. 1 single in the United Kingdom.

By January 1983, Men at Work had the top album and single in both the US and the UK-a feat never achieved previously by an Australian act.

In 2008, the rapcore band Hollywood Undead achieved success with their debut album Swan Songs.

The album achieved slow success, with the album reaching the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Heatseaker Charts almost six months after its debut.

The Stranglers achieved something of a critical and popular renaissance in 2004 with the acclaimed Norfolk Coast album and a subsequent sell-out tour, together with their first Top-40 hit ( No. 31 UK ) in fourteen years, " Big Thing Coming ".

Although Waits ' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries.

His third album, Ceol More, was released in 2002 and achieved widespread critical acclaim.

From the RIAA, ZZ Top has achieved 4 gold, 3 platinum, and 2 multi-platinum album certifications, in addition to one diamond album.

In 1975, the band achieved success with the album Fleetwood Mac.

Flood was the band's first album to receive the Platinum sales award, which it achieved on July 10, 2009.

After the release of the second album, Unveiling the Secret, along with titles such as " Prisoner to Desire ", " Black Panther ", and " The Saint Became a Lush ", Psyche achieved the European breakthrough that gave them the ability to go on a formal tour.

Released on October 1990, the album received excellent critical reviews and achieved very respectable sales, peaking at # 4 in the US and No. 1 in the UK.

Before the album's release, on 9 September 2008, Marillion achieved a world first by pre-releasing their own album via P2P networks themselves.

He would continue to make albums with the Orchestra, but never achieved the same kind of success with his debut album.

At one point in 1984, Prince simultaneously had the number one album, single, and film in the U. S .; it was the first time a singer had achieved this feat.

Tin Machine resumed work the same month, but their audience and critics, ultimately left disappointed by the first album, showed little interest in a second.

After being rejected by 34 labels, the album was released by Mediarts and attracted good reviews but little notice outside the folk community.

The music she produced was featured on her first solo album, Enya ( 1987 ), but it attracted little attention at the time.

After the film's success, a soundtrack album was produced which was supposed to be made up of music one of the characters had on her walkman when she " disappeared ", although the film itself has little music in it.

In May 1998, Lennon released the album Photograph Smile to little commercial success.

He released " U Don't Know Me " as the first single from the album, but it failed to chart, and the music video received little airplay on major music video channels.

Unlike previous recordings, the band had little time to practice beforehand, and Black Francis wrote much of the album in the studio.

In addition to becoming the band's drummer, Peart assumed the role of principal lyricist from Lee, who had very little interest in writing, despite penning the lyrics of the band's first album.

Even though he had little to do with the album, McDaniels was relishing the stage ; he had been suffering from an inoperable vocal disorder that had rendered his once-booming voice a strained mumble.

Their next album, Factory Showroom, was released in 1996 to little fanfare.

They were successful as live performers, becoming known to fans as " that little ol ' band from Texas ", and their 1973 album Tres Hombres, according to AllMusic, propelled the band to national attention and " made them stars ".

Nicks has expressed major disappointment with the album, claiming that a lot of production work took place during her second stint in rehab, meaning she had little to no say over the final product.

( Nicks was quoted by Billboard saying that her new album was " my own little Rumours.

The new album marked a radical change in style as the revived Yes had adopted a pop rock sound that showed little of their progressive roots.

It contains the vocals of the four actors performing in the film with the only piece of music heard throughout the entire album is a song titled " Virginia Woolf Rock " that plays while Martha and Nick are dancing ( but plays a little differently than it does in the film ).

Reviewing Genesis 1976 – 1982 in Q, Andy Fyfe wrote: "... in spite of 150 million album sales the bottom line is that little of the band ’ s output has aged well ...

While critically acclaimed, the album received little promotion from EMI and did poorly commercially.

Nico was not satisfied with the album and had little say in production matters.

The album was released on June 1985, and to date remains the only Megadeth album that did not chart on the Billboard 200, primarily because it was released through an independent label with little promotion.

The album was little noticed outside the Netherlands, where a small but avid fan base developed.

Recorded over a period of more than four months, with little input from nominal producer Al Schmitt, the new album demonstrated the group's growing engagement with psychedelic rock.

* Royal Crown Revue Recorded in their 1998 album " the contender ", the RCR gave this little ditty a shuffle feel.

Manu Chao's next album La Radiolina ( literally " little radio " in Italian, but also " pocket radio ") was released on September 17, 2007.

* McCartney, who had just released his own album, London Town, always answered, “ No comment .” According to Innes: “ He had a dinner at some awards thing at the same table as Eric one night and Eric said it was a little frosty .” Idle claimed McCartney changed his mind because his wife Linda thought it was funny.