On 5 November 2006 the Groninger Museum opened an exposition devoted to Herman Brood's life and work, comprising paintings, lyrics, and poetry, portraits by photographer Anton Corbijn, a collection of private pictures ( from the family album ), and concert photos and videos.

Tricky opened his second album Nearly God by a version of " Tattoo ", a pre-trip-hop song of Siouxsie and the Banshees.

They opened for Super Furry Animals on tour in 1997, and released their debut album for Creation, Mount Everest.

Amos opened each show dressed as one of the four non-Tori personae from the album, then Amos would emerge as herself to perform for the remaining two-thirds of the show.

The album itself opened at number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums, selling 44, 000 copies ; this marked not only the first time a Cake album had hit the number 1 spot in an opening week, but also the lowest sales numbers for an album at the top of that chart.

The band later opened for the Doobie Brothers, and started to focus more on recording an album, and getting a single out.

Before the album was released, Jane's Addiction supported British band Love and Rockets on a two-month tour in late 1987 .. Also in late 1987, the band opened for former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy at the now demolished Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach.

The album opened with " English Sunset ", a pop song featuring a modern, nearly techno arrangement.

The band was also featured, along with a 70-piece orchestra, on the live album “ An Evening of Magic ,” which was recorded at the Hollywood Bowl on July 16, 1978, at the height of Mangione ’ s success from “ Feels So Good .” Performances of material new and old included versions of “ Main Squeeze ,” “ Hill Where the Lord Hides ” and “ Chase the Clouds Away .” Mangione opened and closed the show with “ Feels So Good ” and its “ Reprise ” version.

The album opened in Billboards top ten and scored enthusiastic lead reviews in major music magazines.

Four more songs from the album Dead Man's Party were used in soundtracks: " No One Lives Forever " was featured in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, " Stay " ( in the Boingo Alive version ) was used as the theme music for the Brazilian soap opera Top Model, " Same Man I Was Before " was used in My Best Friend Is a Vampire and " Just Another Day " opened the 1985 film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now.

James Brown, who early in his career had opened shows for John, recorded a tribute album, Thinking about Little Willie John ... and a Few Nice Things.

Subsequent to EWF's first tour of Europe, where they opened for the rock band Santana, Columbia Records wanted another album released as soon as possible.

This led to two projects: a public audio-visual presentation at Abbey Road Studios called The Beatles Live at Abbey Road ( which opened on 18 July 1983 ) and a planned outtakes album which was to be called Sessions.

The band landed an opening slot on the Depeche Mode Exotic Tour in Summer 1994 and opened North American tour dates in Fall 1994 for Killing Joke, but Stabbing Westward album sales were still sluggish.

To emphasize the group's rejection of standard methodology, the album opened with the inscrutable avant-garde atmospheric piece " Milky Way " ( created by Shorter's extremely muted saxophone inducing vibrations in Zawinul's piano strings while the latter pedaled the instrument ).

In 1970, with Erik Brann gone, Iron Butterfly released their fourth studio album, Metamorphosis with two new members, guitarist / vocalist Mike Pinera ( whose Blues Image had opened for the Butterfly's Vida tour ) and guitarist Larry " Rhino " Reinhardt.

The album opened at # 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart, his highest US debut ever.

The Concert for Bangladesh was also the title of the accompanying live album, a boxed three-record set, released in December 1971 ( January 1972 in Britain ), and Apple Films ' concert documentary, which opened in cinemas in the spring of 1972.

From 1977 to the end of its ABC run in 1987, the show opened and closed with Barry Manilow's rendition of " Bandstand Boogie ," which he originally recorded for his 1975 album Tryin ' to Get the Feeling.

There were fewer hit singles, and declining album sales.

She is one of the most successful female country artists of all time ; with an estimated 100 million in album sales, Dolly Parton is also one of the best selling artists of all time.

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

The success of this album further propelled the sales of his first two albums, enabling Brooks to become the first country artist with three albums listed in the pop top 20 in one week.

Once officially released there, in 1994, the album reached the top spot on the UK Country chart-albeit a particularly niche chart where few sales are needed to make the top slots – and number two on the UK pop albums chart.

The album was then released in November 1997, and debuted at number-one on both the Top Country Albums and Billboard 200 album charts in the United States, and later became his fourth album to reach a sales of 10 million copies.

Less than expected sales of the album ( more than two million ) and no further developments in the production of the film as a result brought the project to an indefinite hiatus in February 2001 and Gaines quickly faded into obscurity.

The album did not match the sales levels of Brooks's heyday, but still sold comfortably well, reaching number-one on both the pop and country charts.

Like Cypress Hill, who, with House of Pain, were a part of the loosely affiliated Soul Assassins posse, they found urban radio airplay an increasingly closed path, which affected album sales.

Their only record with enough U. S. sales to be certified gold was the compilation album Ramones Mania.

The following year finally marked the release of Snow Patrol's second album ' When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up ', which, despite slightly disappointing initial sales, would eventually go gold in the wake of the band's later fame, along with their debut ' Songs For Polarbears '.

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.

In the late 1990s, Puerto Rican rapper Big Punisher became the first Latino solo artist to reach platinum sales for an LP with his debut album Capital Punishment, which included hit song Still Not a Player.

Page and Plant released another album called Walking into Clarksdale in 1998, featuring all new material, but after disappointing sales the partnership dissolved before a planned Australian tour.

Also in 2011, Staind's self-titled album debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200, with first sales week of 47, 000 copies, making the fifth consecutive top-five album for the band.

The album took 64 weeks to hit # 1 on the Billboard 200 album sales chart — the longest an album has been on the market before hitting # 1 — and spent 10 weeks there.

Rush also ranks 79th in U. S. album sales, with 25 million units.

As of December 6, 2011, the album has sold 185, 000 units in the U. S. and received positive reviews from critics.

The album peaked at No. 185 during a three-week stint on the charts in October 1984.

In the U. S., the band renamed themselves as Kaja, and a different edition of the Islands album was released there as Extra Play, peaking at no. 185 on the Billboard charts.

As of August 8, 2008, the album has sold 185, 000 copies in the United States.

The band gave a free promotion concert in support of the album on the beach of Scheveningen for an audience of 185, 000.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 185 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

It returned to the top five after the release of the Ultra Platinum Edition, which helped the album rebound to number four, with sales of 185, 000 units.

In addition, the repackaged album of Keep Your Head Down ranked # 9 on the same chart and sold 55, 243 copies, making the total sales figure 286, 185.