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Violator reached number 17 on the Billboard 200-year-end chart of 1990, [42] and was the first Depeche Mode album to sell a million copies in the United States. [ 41 ] The success of Violator introduced the band to a wider audience, and this increased exposure led to their 1993 follow-up album Songs of Faith and Devotion debuting at the top of ...
Depeche Mode's previous tour, the Music for the Masses Tour, had run from late 1987 to the middle of 1988, and was supported by the live video and record release of 101 in early 1989. [2] Violator was released in March 1990 [ 3 ] and had already seen two successful singles to support it, " Personal Jesus " [ 4 ] and " Enjoy the Silence " by the ...
There are six videos, all songs from the album Violator, released in the same year. There is one for each of the four singles, plus two bonus videos, for "Halo" and "Clean", exclusive to the release. As with its predecessor, Corbijn shot all six videos in Super 8. The taller woman in the "Halo" video is a young Jenna Elfman.
"Enjoy the Silence" was recorded in 1989, part of the Violator sessions. [11] Typical for a Depeche Mode album, songwriter Martin Gore brought in demos of several songs for the band to hear, and had created a ballad-like demo of "Enjoy the Silence", which, at band member Alan Wilder's insistence, was re-worked into the up-tempo version of the song that was released.
The album was released as a Copy Controlled CD and a deluxe SACD/DVD version (CD/DVD version in the United States) which includes the album on hybrid multi-channel SACD as the main disc and a bonus DVD featuring an exclusive studio performance of "Clean" (from Violator), the video for "Precious", a photo gallery and a 5.1 mix of the album ...
Violator was the first Depeche Mode album to enter the Top 10 of the Billboard 200, reaching Number 7 and staying 74 weeks in the chart. It was certified triple platinum in America. [ 61 ] Two more singles from the album—" Policy of Truth " and " World in My Eyes "—were hits in the UK, with the former also charting in the US.
Tour of the Universe: Barcelona 20/21.11.09 is a live video album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 5 November 2010 by Mute Records. It was filmed at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona , Spain on 20 and 21 November 2009 during the band's 2009–10 worldwide Tour of the Universe . [ 1 ]
On 19 December 2006, Depeche Mode's back catalogue was released on the iTunes Store as The Complete Depeche Mode. On 3 December 2009, Sounds of the Universe was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album. They received a second nomination for the video "Wrong": for Best Short Form Music Video at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.