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A very popular album goes gold, platinum, or even double platinum, without containing any hit songs on the singles chart. Songs may appear on genre-specific radio charts, but otherwise the album sells itself. In The '50s and early '60s, albums were often perceived as secondary to hit singles. This began to change when groups like The Beatles and The Beach Boys started to produce albums which tried to avoid Album Filler and make every song count. The British Invasion helped, thanks to the then-common practice of excluding hit singles from albums. The trope came into its own during the predominance of "album-oriented" rock during the 1970s, when albums making a unified musical statement had become more common. Some Hard Rock and Heavy Metal groups active at this time, such as Led Zeppelin, did their best to avoid releasing singles at all. Similarly, while they did manage to score some hits, the most successful Progressive Rock artists active in this period, including Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Yes, were well-known for producing songs which were simply too long to be feasible for release as a single or were much more effective as part of an album. Also an obvious trend in the career of a Long Runner artist. Consider discography pages on The Other Wiki; album sales are usually consistent or improve with time while hit singles eventually trail off as more airtime is given to new performers. See also No-Hit Wonder. |
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Metallica's Master of Puppets did not have any singles released from it, but is one of the most popular and bestselling metal albums ever. (in fact, the band only started to chart with "One", from the following album). The Title Track would become a hit decades after its release after a Colbert Bump from Stranger Things. | |
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The albums released by the stars of the TV series Nashville have mostly been commercially successful, and the singles often get good downloads despite Hayden Panettiere's "Telescope" being literally the only single from the series that got any airplay. | |
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Five Finger Death Punch's first four albums have gone gold in the USA (with the second through fifth albums peaking in the top 10), yet they only have two Hot 100 entries. They do, however, have ten #1 hits on the Mainstream Rock charts. | |
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Slick Rick, with the exception of "Behind Bars", never had any of his singles hit the top 100.note They did, however, dominate both the hip hop and R&B charts. Despite this, three out of his four albums made the top 40 of the Billboard 200. | |
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Kacey Musgraves has had three different albums do this, largely because of her Periphery Demographic and her lack of play on country radio. Same Trailer Different Park, Pageant Material, and Golden Hour are all #1 on Top Country Albums and top-five peaks on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile her only major airplay hit was her debut single "Merry Go Round". | |
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Rush had a couple of these. A couple sounds about right. 1984's Grace Under Pressure hit #10 on the Billboard 200, though only one single ("The Body Electric") charted...at #105. 2007's Snakes and Arrows debuted at #1 on the Billboard Rock and Internet Album charts, though none of the four singles broke the Top 10. 2112 is generally recognized as their "breakout" album. It was their first album to crack the Billboard Top 100 and has gone on to sell over 3 million copies. The kicker is that the album itself became such a success even though all three singles they released from it failed to chart. Overall, 28 Gold or better albums. Only one US Top 40 song ever— "New World Man", from Signals, which peaked at #21. 13 other singles that did make it on the charts, and 70 that didn't. Though quite a few of those did much better on the rock specific chart. |
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Saint Dominic's Preview by Van Morrison hit #15 in the US in 1972 even though none of its three singles could manage to crawl past #61. | |
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System of a Down's Toxicity went triple platinum, selling over 15 million copies, but none of the singles (the band's Signature Song "Chop Suey!", the crossover hit "Aerials", or the Title Track "Toxicity") even graced the Top 40 chart. The band's first (and so far only) single to hit the chart was "B.Y.O.B." from Mezmerize/Hypnotize, even though both sides of the double album debuted at #1 months apart. | |
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Wu-Tang Clan: Their first three albums. | |
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Extremely common in bluegrass, since it was never really in fashion on country radio. Alison Krauss & Union Station is a prime example, with impressive album sales despite nothing remotely resembling a hit. (In fact, Krauss is tied with Quincy Jones as the artist with the second-highest number of Grammys.) The "Red Dirt" music of Texas is in a similar situation. Many bands and artists spend years, even decades, gaining massive fanbases in Texas, but never strike it big elsewhere. It's to the point where Billboard publishes a separate country singles chart just for Texas. |
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Aaron Lewis of alt-rock band Staind went country with the single "Country Boy" from the EP Town Line. The song only got to #87 pop and #55 country (although it also got enough downloads to certify gold), but the EP was #1 on Top Country Albums. | |
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Since coming second in Britain's Got Talent, Susan Boyle has enjoyed two albums which have achieved multi-platinum sales worldwide. In America, the first (I Dreamed A Dream) was the best selling album of the year in spite of being released in the fourth quarter. Nonetheless, she didn't get any singles in the Top 40 from either record. | |
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Their debut album Korn takes it to an extreme. None of its singles charted anywhere in the US, yet it went quadruple platinum and sold over ten million copies worldwide. More importantly, it spawned an an entire genre that would later take over the rock music world in the late '90s and early '00s. | |
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The Barney & Friends album Barney's Favorites, Volume 1, which was in the top 5 children's albums on Billboard's Kid Audio chart for 5 years, went triple platinum in 1998, selling over 3 million copies. | |
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Korn more-or-less defines this trope. Their debut album Korn takes it to an extreme. None of its singles charted anywhere in the US, yet it went quadruple platinum and sold over ten million copies worldwide. More importantly, it spawned an an entire genre that would later take over the rock music world in the late '90s and early '00s. Life is Peachy debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts and sold over six million copies. Not only did it not produce a charting single on the Hot 100, but all of its singles also failed to even blip on the rock charts. Follow the Leader produced their first radio hit on rock with "Freak on a Leash", and debuted at #1, selling over 14 million albums worldwide. However, not one song off the album even charted on the Hot 100. Issues became their second album to debut at #1, and sold over 13 million copies. It's sole Hot 100 entry was "Falling Away from Me", which peaked at #99. Overall, they've sold over 40 million records, yet have only managed to scrape one Top 40 song with "Did My Time", and only had six entries on the bottom of the Hot 100. They do, however, have numerous hits on rock radio, but in a twist, much of those hits came after their peak in the late-'90s/early-'00s. |
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Tame Impala's 2015 album Currents debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 and eventually went platinum, a rare achievement for an album from The New '10s that got minimal airplay, even on the alternative stations (though "The Less I Know the Better" became a hit four years on TikTok). | |
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A notable exception is Magical Mystery Tour. It started in England as a double-EP, but when it came time to release it in America, Capitol decided to add all of the singles from the Sgt. Pepper era on the B-side, while the A-side featured the original EP with an altered tracklist. However, this was widely regarded as a smart move and became the preferred version for many, even in the band's native UK. | |
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Iron Maiden has had an interesting history with this trope. They never got much support from the mainstream, and have only ever had #1 single ever, "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter", which ironically comes from what is often considered their worst album No Prayer For the Dying (at least from people tolerant of the Blaze era). Powerslave and Somewhere in Time were blazingly popular despite not having any really huge hits (the closest thing to a hit from that era was "Wasted Years"). Fear of the Dark, the 1992 last album before Bruce Dickinson's temporary departure was a huge hit, but there was not a single song that could remotely be considered a hit ("Be Quick or Be Dead" reached #2 in the UK charts, but the most enduring song was the title track, which only charted in a live version). Much of the same can be said about their post-2000 tenure, with 2010's The Final Frontier having no hit singles yet debuting at #1 in a whopping 29 countries. | |
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly peaked at #1 on the album charts and is considered to be one of the best albums of all time, but none of the singles made it to the top 40, with "King Kunta" getting the closest, peaking at #55. Given that it's a very politically-charged Concept Album, this isn't particularly surprising. | |
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Fairport Convention's seminal 1969 album "Liege and Lief" effectively invented the British folk-rock movement, although the album peaked at only #17 in the UK and did not contain any breakout singles. | |
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Cledus T. Judd's I Stoled This Record (1996) went gold even though none of its singles charted. This was due in part to heavy music video rotation on CMT. | |
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Nickelback's seventh studio album, "Here and Now", peaked at #2 on Billboard, but the highest-charting song, "When We Stand Together", only peaked at number 49. | |
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