On This Day in Music History...(Oct 11)

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

2011
-Bjork releases her eighth album Biophilia in the US. The album peaks at #27 in the US. The album features songs like “Crystaline”, “Cosmogony”, “Virus”. and “Moon"

 

-Evanescence releases their third album Evanescence. The album was their first in five years and peaked at #1 in the US. Unfortunately, the album din’t have the success of the last two albums, only selling a little over 400,000 copies. The album features the #68 hit “What You Want”. 

 

-Britney Spears releases her second remix album B in the Mix: The Remixes Vol. 2. The album peaks at #47 in the US. 

1983
-Lionel Richie releases his second album Can’t Slow Down. The album peaks at #1 and has sold over 10 million copies, making it his most successful album. The album features five top 10 hits, “All Night Long” (#1), Running with the Night (#7), “Hello” (#1), “Stuck on You” (#3), and “Penny Lover” (#8). The album took home Album of the Year at the 1985 Grammy Awardsm beating out other iconic albums: Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual, Prince’s Purple Rain, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. and Tina Turner’s Private Dancer. 

 

 

 

 

 

[T3ARS 4,132]

2011
-Bjork releases her eighth album Biophilia in the US. The album peaks at #27 in the US. The album features songs like “Crystaline”, “Cosmogony”, “Virus”. and “Moon"

 

-Evanescence releases their third album Evanescence. The album was their first in five years and peaked at #1 in the US. Unfortunately, the album din’t have the success of the last two albums, only selling a little over 400,000 copies. The album features the #68 hit “What You Want”. 

 

 

Yes Evanescence and Bjork , I love you for doing this. 

[Warholian 6,880]

Biophillia is hands down one of the best albums of the decade. 

[Riot Poof 2,236]

Yaaaaaas Biophilia.