A version with Alicia Keys was included in Charles ' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

1987's Gaudi was the Project's last release, though they planned to record an album called Freudiana next.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

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

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

Her producer was present and suggested she include a version of it on her 1970 album Whales & Nightingales.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

When Heart in Motion was released in 1991, many fans were surprised that the album was so clearly one of contemporary pop music.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

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.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

It peaked at # 5 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified with a gold album by the RIAA.

The album reached the Top 20 in the UK and was certified Silver.

Time topped the UK charts for two weeks and was the last ELO studio album to date to be certified platinum in the United Kingdom.

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

" The Breaks ", a single from his 1980 debut album, is the first certified gold record rap song.

By the time the final single " Wasting Time " was released the album had sold 7 million albums, Devil Without A Cause was certified 11 times platinum by the RIAA on April 17, 2003.

Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries.

Their ninth studio album, Saints of Los Angeles, was released on June 24, 2008, certified Gold album in January 2012.

According to the RIAA, Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time, having been certified as quadruple platinum ( 4 million copies sold ).

... And Out Come the Wolves, the 1995 album by Rancid — which had evolved out of Operation Ivy — became the first record in this ska revival to be certified gold ; Sublime's self-titled 1996 album was certified platinum early in 1997.

The album was eventually certified Gold in the U. S. in 2005.

A follow-up album, II, received similar praise, but did not match the commercial success that the Presidents ' debut album had, though it was still certified gold in the US.

Their first live album — A Live One — which was released during the summer of 1995, became Phish's first RIAA certified gold album in November 1995 .< ref name =" RIAA Certifications ">

Moving Pictures reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart and has been certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

This mix was included on the album Ayu-mi-x 6: Gold.

#* performed by Neil Young & Crazy Horse ; appears on the album After the Gold Rush

#* appears on the album After the Gold Rush

#* appears on the album After the Gold Rush

In the UK, he has been awarded nine Platinum album certifications, 11 Gold and eight Silver, and in the US, five Platinum and seven Gold certifications.

They have been awarded five Diamond albums, as well as fourteen Multi-Platinum, four Platinum and one Gold album in the United States, while in the UK they have five Multi-Platinum, six Platinum, one Gold and four Silver albums.

Carducci suggested they sign with the label, and the Meat Puppets released their first album Meat Puppets in 1982, which among several new originals and a pair of heavily skewed Doc Watson and Bob Nolan covers, featured the songs " The Gold Mine " and " Melons Rising ", two tunes Derrick and Cris originally had written and performed as Atomic Bomb Club previously.

* " Nemesis ", a song by Shriekback on the album Oil & Gold

In 2011, Limp Bizkit's long awaited sixth studio album, Gold Cobra, was a commercial success, selling 63, 000 copies in the United States and peaking at number 16 on the Billboard 200 and the album has received mostly positive reviews.

The album, titled Gold Dust, will be released in October 2012 through Deutsche Grammophon.

The group won four NME Readers poll awards that year ; Band of the Year, Best New Band, Single of the Year ( for " Fools Gold ") and Album of the Year ( for their debut album ).

In 1990, the band ( now without Lindsey Buckingham ) recorded Behind the Mask, but the album only reached ' Gold ' status in the U. S. The album did however, enter the UK album chart at # 1, but there were no UK hits from the album and only Christine's song " Save Me " made the US Top 40.

Baez found herself without an American label for the release of Live Europe 83 ( 1984 ), which was released in Europe and Canada, but not released commercially in the U. S. She did not have an American release until the album Recently ( 1987 ) on Gold Castle Records.

Their sixth studio album, Light Grenades, debuted at No. 1 in 2006 and has received Gold certification in the U. S. Incubus released their first greatest hits album Monuments and Melodies in June 2009, accompanied by a tour of the United States, Japan and Canada.