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.

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

Tin Machine toured again, but after the live album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby failed commercially, the band drifted apart, and Bowie, though he continued to collaborate with Gabrels, resumed his solo career.

The album was well received but failed commercially ; after a sloppy cross-country tour, they hastily recorded Burrito Deluxe.

Although it received enthusiastic reviews, the release failed to chart ; his next album, Grievous Angel ( released posthumously in 1974 ) met with a similar reception, and peaked at number 195 on Billboard.

In 1995, Brown returned to the Apollo, and released the live album, Live at the Apollo 1995, which included a studio track titled " Respect Me ", which was released as a single ; again it failed to chart.

In 2006 he released Live Trucker, a greatest hits live album that failed to go platinum.

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.

Thaler would manage the band alone until 1994, at which time the band did a mass-firing when their album, Mötley Crüe, failed to meet commercial expectations.

The most successful New Zealand band, The La De Das, produced the psychedelic pop concept album The Happy Prince ( 1968 ), based on the Oscar Wilde children's classic, but failed to break through in Britain and the wider world.

Williams first single for Skyhooks, " Over the Border ", reached the top 40 in April, and their fifth studio album, Hot for the Orient, appeared in May 1980, but failed to peak into the top 50.

The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single " Price to Play ", and " So Far Away " ( which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart, and was featured on an episode of Smallville ); in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100 —" How About You " and " Zoe Jane "— but " How About You " was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio.

Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead.

The band failed to take advantage of the momentum created by the strong artistic and commercial success of their second album.

He failed to turn up for the opening dates of their 1988 tour of America, and prevented the band from promoting their next album, Hell's Ditch, so in 1991 the band sacked him.

" Man of the Earth ", which the band had high hopes for, was due to be the third single from the album, however Epic Records decided against it when The Stranglers failed to secure a tour in America.

The 1991 follow-up album Excursion on the Version, an exploration of dub and reggae music, failed to repeat the success of its predecessor, as it did not chart.

Despite these hit singles, the album failed to do well in the United States, while in the UK it went triple platinum and remained in the album chart for two years.

Her Making a Good Thing Better album ( No. 34 Pop, No. 13 Country ) failed to be certified gold, and its only single, the title track ( No. 87 Pop, No. 20 AC ), did not reach even the AC Top 10 or the Country chart.

This album, the last one produced by John Farrar, also failed to revive her recording career struggling to No. 124 Pop.

Despite its pop stylings, the album failed to crossover beyond the band's existing fanbase and produced no major hit singles.

Asia received the RIAA Gold album award for Then and Now many years later, but the initial response was modest as the album failed to dent the Top 100.

The first artist to sell a million copies on CD was Dire Straits, with its 1985 album Brothers in Arms.

The following year, he released his second funk album, Star Turtle, which did not sell as well as previous albums, although it did reach No. 38 on the charts.

* 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.

Smash went on to sell over twelve million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling independent-label album of all time.

The album stayed on the charts for the next two years, going on to sell 40 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest-selling album of all time by a female musician.

Break the Cycle would go on to sell 7 million copies worldwide, making this Staind's best selling album.

Amos would later reveal that a stimulus for the album was to end her contract with Atlantic without giving them new original songs ; Amos felt that since 1998, the label had not been properly promoting her and had trapped her in a contract by refusing to sell her to another label.

* November 8 – Led Zeppelin releases their Fourth Studio album " Led Zeppelin IV " which goes on to sell 23, 000, 000 copies.

The album eventually managed to sell over three million copies in Europe.

Although it produced his last Top 10 hit with the upbeat " Late in the Evening " ( also a No. 1 hit on the Radio & Records American charts ), the album did not sell well, in a music market dominated by disco music.

They'd do nothing, sell the album to the fanbase and put the money in the bank.

The album was not quite as praised as the band's previous few albums ( many felt the album was " rushed " and repetitive ), but still managed sell and maintain popularity quite well, with the singles " When the Sun Burns Red " and " People of the Lie " becoming hits.

The LP had advance orders of a half million and sold another half million by September 1965, making it the second album to sell a million copies in the United Kingdom, after the soundtrack to the 1958 film South Pacific.

In 1970 they played to four straight sell out crowds on January 17 and 18 at the Felt Forum later released as Live in New York ( The Doors live album ).

* Rihanna: First woman of the Caribbean to ever sell out the Garden, she performed a sold out show for her Last Girl on Earth Tour, promoting Rated R – the most critically acclaimed album of her career.

This new version of the band released a pair of albums for Word Records: 1992's The Seventy Sevens ( known by the band and fans as Pray Naked, the album's original title which was dropped by the record label without consulting the band due to Christian vendor pressures not to sell an album titled " Pray Naked ") and 1994's critically acclaimed Drowning with Land in Sight.

The album did not sell well and was not widely critically noticed.

Some established acts continued to enjoy commercial success, such as Aerosmith, with their number one multi-platinum albums: Get a Grip ( 1993 ), which produced four Top 40 singles and became the band's best-selling album worldwide ( going on to sell over 20 million copies ), and Nine Lives ( 1997 ).

In July 2009, there were reports that EMI would not sell CDs to independent album retailers in a bid to cut costs, but in fact only a handful of small physical retailers were affected.