In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

They later released their third album titled Raising Hell which became the group's most successful album and one of the best-selling rap albums of all-time.

In the third quarter of 2006, the Singapore store emerged as the best performing among the entire group's 559 outlets, with the highest revenue generated per square meter.

E-Roc left on amicable terms after the group's second album but appears on the track " Breathing Apparatus " on The Coup's third album, Steal This Album.

The result was the group's third album, Strays.

Delgado was a guest performer on several songs on the group's first two albums, and was formally inaugurated into the group just before their third release White Pony ( 2000 ).

This third series, which was still set in Los Angeles, was the group's favourite to film because they had more acting experience and could " drop their shoulders " and start to enjoy themselves.

After the group's breakup, Furay and Messina compiled various tracks recorded between mid-1967 and early 1968 into a third and final studio album, titled Last Time Around.

The group's success continued with their second Top Ten single and third Top 40 single, " Quicksand ", which was another composition with Holland-Dozier-Holland and reached number eight pop in the late fall of 1963.

The group's third Motown single was the Top 40 hit " Everybody Needs Love ", released in 1967.

The group's third studio release, 1993's Buhloone Mindstate, saw the group evolve a new sound as they continued to grow stylistically and musically.

Meanwhile, as the music industry was still reeling from the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal, the group found themselves accused of lip-syncing by Gregory McPherson, a music teacher who was listed as an associate producer and string arranger on the group's third album, Step by Step.

Their third album, Survivor, which contains themes the public interpreted as a channel to the group's experience, contains the worldwide hits " Independent Women ", " Survivor " and " Bootylicious ".

In 1982 the group's third single, produced by Mike Howlett " I Ran ( So Far Away )" became a worldwide hit, most notably reaching number 1 in Australia and the top 10 in the US and New Zealand ( where the band became popular ).

The group's third album, Natural Selection, named after Darwinian theory, was released in September 2003 and debuted at No. 15 on the U. S. Billboard charts.

Riding a wave of publicity and hype, the group's second single, " Rivers of Joy ", became a top ten hit, while third single, " There Must Be an Angel ", a cover version of the 1985 hit by British pop duo Eurythmics, continued the group's high record sales by topping the charts once again in Austria and Germany.

Us !, whose media-critical leading single " Something About Us ", penned by band member Petruo, became the group's third non-consecutive number-one hit in Austria and Germany within a period of sixteen months.

The group's third album, Neighborhood Watch, was released in 2004 and debuted at # 55 on the Billboard 200, selling 143, 000 copies in the United States.

The group's third, and possibly most successful release to date, Black Business, was released in 1993.

" Wishing Well ", the first single from the group's upcoming third studio album, was released on March 4, 2008 to coincide with a U. S. tour.

It also peaked at seven on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, making it the group's third top-10 single from The E. N. D.

The group's third single was " Don't Stop the Party " and it was released on May 10, 2011.

The group's third album Blacks ' Magic was released in March 1990, and was a personal album for the trio on many fronts.

Many of the group's soundtracks were composed at least partially of reworked material from the band's studio albums or work that was in progress for upcoming albums ; see, for example, the resemblance between the track " Igneous " on their soundtrack for Thief and the track " Thru Metamorphic Rocks " on their studio release Force Majeure.

Blur attempted to expand their musical sound, but the recording of the group's debut album was hindered by Albarn having to write his lyrics in the studio.

Once at the studio, producer Milt Gabler ( Uncle of actor Billy Crystal, who had produced Louis Jordan as well as Billie Holiday ), insisted the band work on a song entitled " Thirteen Women ( and Only One Man in Town )" ( previously written and recorded by Dickie Thompson ), which Gabler wanted to promote as the A-side of the group's first single for Decca.

His first appearance on an album sleeve was on Dragonfly, the group's second studio album released in February 1970.

He worked on the group's fourth, fifth and sixth studio albums – Fragile ( 1971 ), Close to the Edge ( 1972 ), and Tales from Topographic Oceans ( 1973 ).

He quickly proclaimed himself the group's manager and the band embarked on serious rehearsals for a proper studio session.

Blur attempted to expand their musical sound, but the recording of the group's debut album was hindered by Albarn having to write his lyrics in the studio.

While the Unicorn Records court injunction prevented the group from releasing a new studio album, they nonetheless continued to work on new material, and embarked on a period which would mark a pronounced change in the group's direction ( and that of underground music in general ).

Martin and the trio went to Hawaii during late 1976 to work on the group's seventh studio album.

After more than two years without new studio material, Beckley and Bunnell presented the group's new style with a cover of The Mamas & the Papas ' " California Dreamin '" in March, 1979.

Despite critical pans and a lack of airplay, the group's first six albums ( five studio releases and one live album ) were quite successful.

After a quiet spell, the group's 12th studio album ( and first without Tim Hart ) Back in Line was released on the Flutterby label in 1986.

Despite Sheen's status as group leader, by the time the trio entered the recording studio, Spector was often using Love as the group's primary vocalist.

Their first studio album in close to four years, Face the Music, was a musical departure from the group's previous efforts.

On August 12, 2008, they released their second single, " Single ", featuring R & B singer / songwriter Ne-Yo, followed by the release of the group's first studio album in fourteen years, The Block.

Although forced by Capitol to record Endangered Species in Los Angeles using established studio musicians to shore up the group's commercial chances, the album was a critical and commercial flop.

The girls were signed to LaFace through a production deal with Pebbitone ( with Perri Reid taking the role of the group's manager ) ( see artist development deal ) and immediately went into the studio with producers Reid and Edmonds, Dallas Austin, Jermaine Dupri, and Marley Marl to produce their first album.

Her contributions to the songs had been reduced to periodic eight-bar raps, and studio session singers such as Debra Killings often took her place on the background vocals for the group's songs.

Their annual long-player, As Is, followed in October, with increased studio technique sidelining jazz, soul and blues roots and centering on the group's strongest set of songs so far.

Their seventh studio album, 1997's 10, celebrated the group's decade at the top.

A live rendition of " South of Heaven " was also included on a bonus DVD which came with the group's 2007 re-release of ninth studio album Christ Illusion, shot in Vancouver, British Columbia during 2006's Unholy Alliance tour.