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 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.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

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.

" The album was slow to garner attention, until " All I Wanna Do " became an unexpected smash hit in the fall of 1994.

After a slow start, the Stranglers recovered their commercial and critical status with La Folie ( 1981 ) which was another concept album, this time exploring the subject of love.

When released, the album was greeted with critical acclaim and has been referred to in The Rolling Stone Album Guide as Springsteen's " first triumph " but sales were slow.

Come Find Yourself had a slow rise up the UK album charts, finally peaking at # 7 ( and spending well over a year in the UK Top 100 Album Charts ), however it failed to make any impact in the US.

John Lodge would make a defining shift in his songwriting on this album, leaving his trademark high-energy rock music, and instead gravitating towards slow love ballads such as " Lean On Me ( Tonight )" ( though he had earlier contributed some songs in this gentler vein such as " Emily's Song " for his daughter in 1971 and " Survival " in 1978, plus " Talking out of Turn " in 1981 ), while Lodge's more powerful songs continued with " Magic " and the Lennonesque " Shadows On the Wall ".

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.

A was recorded as an intended Ian Anderson solo album before Tull's record label, Chrysalis, asked that it become credited to the group to help the label get through overall slow record sales.

An update was posted to the official Boston website revealing progress on a new studio album, which is " progressing at an agonizingly slow rate.

The album ends with " Motion Picture Soundtrack ", a staid, slow piece with a simple chord progression of a harmonium, which was an attempt to emulate the soundtrack of 1950s Disney films.

Despite slow initial sales the album went gold in France and Australia over the next two years, achieving gold status in the U. S. in 2002, and selling over six times platinum in Australia in 2006.

However, US album sales were relatively slow ( compared to Pyromania ) until the release of the fourth single, " Pour Some Sugar on Me ".

The title song from that album, written about a romance between Simon and Yusuf Islam ( known then as Cat Stevens ), was a significant hit, reaching # 3 at Easy Listening radio and # 13 on Billboard's Hot 100 and was perhaps even more famous for its use in a variety of international commercials to market the legendary " slow " ( i. e., thick ) ketchup of the H. J. Heinz Company, one of the largest food producers in the world.

Aware that they " couldn't top Reign in Blood ", and that whatever they recorded would be " compared to that album ", he believed they " had to slow down ", something Slayer had never done on albums before, or since.

" Big Long Now " was omitted from the album because vocalist / guitarist Kurt Cobain felt " there was already enough slow heavy stuff on Bleach, and he ' didn't want that song to go out '", according to Endino.

The album, a 45 minute continuous mix, starts off slow, increases in tempo, and slows at the end, following the arc of a typical distance run.

Sales of the album started out slow.

After a slow period in 2005, Sharp contemplated what to do next, considering either a new solo album or starting a new collaborative partnership ( although he didn't state with whom ).

", the album received largely mixed reviews in the press, Power later blamed this on the fact that it was more of a slow burner than the more instant All Change and claimed that a number of critics later told him that repeated listens had changed their perceptions of the album.

Quiet storm is a late-night radio format, featuring soulful slow jams, pioneered in the mid-1970s by then-station-intern Melvin Lindsey at WHUR-FM, in Washington, D. C. Smokey Robinson's like-titled hit single, released in 1975 as the title track to his third solo album, lent its name to the format and to the radio program that introduced it to the public.

The recording was also given away as a free live album with Carter's fifth studio LP, Worry Bomb-a punk-pop album with upbeat material such as " Let's Get Tattoos " and slow acoustic songs such as " My Defeatist Attitude ".