" The album sold 86, 000 copies in its first three months, with the singles " Mono " and " Hold on to Me ", both of which earned competent spots on album charts.

Three years later she followed with another hit album, Shepherd Moons, which sold twelve million copies and earned Enya her first Grammy Award.

Linkin Park's second album debuted on March 25, 2003 and instantly earned worldwide recognition, going to No. 1 in the US and UK, and No. 2 in Australia.

The group's album art earned them the status of icons in the alternative community, and has shown considerable longevity.

Flood earned them a platinum album, largely thanks to the success of " Birdhouse in Your Soul " which reached number three on the US Modern Rock chart, as well as " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".

* Jay Kay, frontman of the funk / acid jazz group Jamiroquai, is known for donating a part of the profits earned from his album sales to Friends of the Earth and Oxfam, among other things.

The video album earned her a fourth Grammy and was aired as an ABC prime time special, Let's Get Physical, becoming a Top 10 Nielsen hit.

The band earned mainstream recognition with the release of their 1999 album Make Yourself.

The album has since earned platinum certification by the RIAA.

In 2002, the band self-produced and released their fourth album entitled The Eleventh Hour, which earned the band a Grammy award for the third album in a row.

Paulini earned ARIA No. 1 Chart Awards for both the single and album.

Her second album Superwoman included the singles " Rough Day " and " So Over You ", and earned Paulini two nominations at the 2007 Urban Music Awards for ' Best R & B Album ' and ' Best Female Artist '.

Her debut album Been Waiting earned her seven nominations at the 2009 ARIA Music Awards, winning the award of ' Highest Selling Single ' for " Running Back ".

Though not an instant success, the album gained a steady following in France with hits such as " Bongo Bong " and " Clandestino ", and the album eventually earned the Best World Music Album award in 1999's Victoires de la Musique awards.

The final track on the album, " Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon ( Utopia Planitia )" earned a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, and the album was certified gold on April 10, 2006.

" It became the first album in history to have four top five singles by a female, and earned Lauper Best New Artist at the 27th Grammy Awards in 1985.

The album produced the hit single, a cover of Yolandita Monge's " Quitame Ese Hombre ", which hit No. 1 and earned Montenegro various award nominations.

He Touched Me was a 1972 gospel music album by Elvis Presley which sold over 1 million copies in the US alone and earned Presley his second of three Grammy Awards.

The song earned him a five album deal with Polydor Records, who viewed him as a punk rather than merely an eccentric.

They are best known for the 1997 hit song " MMMBop " from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere, which earned three Grammy nominations.

In early 2009, Taylor Hanson launched a separate project including members of Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne and Cheap Trick called Tinted Windows, a power pop quartet whose debut album quickly earned critical praise and repeat airplay on leading syndicated FM radio programs.

In 1981, Parsons, Woolfson and their record label Arista, were stalled in contract renegotiations when on 5 March the two submitted an all-instrumental atonal album tentatively titled ' The Sicilian Defence ' ( the name of an aggressive opening move in chess ), arguably to get out of their recording contract.

Arista's refusal to release the album had two known effects: the negotiations led to a renewed contract and the album was never released.

Although " Takes A Little Time " was a moderate hit single, the album failed to sell like the previous two albums, which had both gone multi-platinum.

The words, with some variations, are used in the track Jerusalem on Bruce Dickinson's album The Chemical Wedding, which also includes lines from book two of Milton.

A limited edition release included two bonus tracks on a separate disc recorded in the early 1960s, and two years later, on September 16, 2003, this album was one of fifteen Dylan titles reissued and remastered for SACD hybrid playback.

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

Ian Anderson plays balalaika on two songs from the 1969 Jethro Tull album Stand Up: " Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square " and " Fat Man ".

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

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.

The album reached number one in New Zealand, number two in Australia, number six in the UK and made the top 20 in several European countries.

The album was played as two continuous pieces of music on the two sides of the vinyl and produced the band's two biggest hit singles, " Kayleigh " and " Lavender ".

Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of The Jackson 5's " Never Can Say Goodbye " and two other songs, " Honey Bee " and " Reach Out ( I'll Be There )".

Decade is a triple album compilation by Neil Young, released in 1977, now available on two compact discs.

Day released My Heart in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2011, her first new album in nearly two decades, since the release of The Love Album, which, although recorded in 1967, was not released until 1994.

The two songs anchored her first full-length album, Hello, I'm Dolly.

It was followed by the studio album, " Backwoods Barbie ," which was released February 26, 2008, and reached number two on the country charts.

A few exceptions include Guided by Voices ' 1994 album Bee Thousand, which was re-released as a three disc vinyl LP Director's cut in 2004, and Fall Out Boy's 2003 album Take This to Your Grave, which was re-released as a Director's cut in 2005 with two extra tracks.

He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low ( 1977 )— the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years.

The album, which would remain in the chart for two years, was soon joined there by the six-month-old Hunky Dory.

Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the group's popularity continued to grow ( although they were always more popular in North America and Continental Europe than in their home country, never achieving a UK Top 40 single or Top 20 album ).

With Domani smetto, Articolo 31 left the world of hip hop and moved to rap with many influences ; even more so than previously, this album found them rapping and singing to rock and pop tracks.

The album struck a much darker note, leaning more towards downtempo, acoustic soft-rock songs, with more mature ( yet still optimistic ) lyrics.

The album continued Dylan's artistic comeback following 1997's Time Out of Mind, and was given an even more enthusiastic reception.

Dylan meant that title, of course, and he means this one too, which doesn't make " Love and Theft " his minstrelsy album any more than Self Portraits dire " Minstrel Boy " was his minstrelsy song.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

The Allmusic review by Marc Gilman awarded the album 4½ stars noting that " While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz.

The John Lennon album Some Time in New York City features a song entitled " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", inspired by the incident, as well as the song " The Luck of the Irish ", which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

This album failed to chart and, though " Find a Way " was a minor hit in the UK, no more singles were released.

Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

With her 1976 album All I Can Do, co-produced by herself with Porter Wagoner, Parton began taking more of an active role in production, and began specifically aiming her music in a more mainstream, pop direction.

) Elsewhere, the album explored more serious themes, and found Bowie paying unusually direct homage to his influences with " Song for Bob Dylan ", " Andy Warhol ", and " Queen Bitch ", a Velvet Underground pastiche.

On June 2, 2008, during an interview at the Danish Komiks. dk fair, Don stated that he would not do any more Disney comics, citing eye troubles, low pay, and the constant use of his stories in special hardback or album editions by international Disney licensees without any payment of royalties or requests for permission for the use of his name.

American Pies success made McLean an international star and piqued interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release.

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, the album featured a darker, more sinister sound than its predecessors.

Her album sales were more than 75 million worldwide, with over 26. 5 million in album sales in the US.

In 1981 ELO's sound changed again with the science fiction concept album Time, a throwback to earlier, more progressive rock albums like Eldorado.

With the string section laid off, synthesisers took a dominating role, as was the trend in the larger music scene of the time, although studio strings were present on some of the tracks conducted by Rainer Pietsch, the overall soundscape had a more electronic feel in keeping with the futuristic nature of the album.

However, Lynne was contractually obligated to make one more ELO album.

Bevan approached Lynne to make another ELO album in 1988, but Lynne was not interested and went on to announce that ELO was no more.