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Illmatic (stylized in lowercase) is the debut studio album by the American rapper Nas.It was released on April 19, 1994, by Columbia Records.After signing with the label with the help of MC Serch, Nas recorded the album in 1992 and 1993 at Chung King Studios, D&D Recording, Battery Studios, and Unique Recording Studios in New York City.
America is the debut studio album by America, released in January 1972. It was initially released without "A Horse with No Name", which was released as a single in Europe in late 1971 and in the US in January 1972. When "A Horse with No Name" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track.
America (stylized in uppercase) is the fifth studio album by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, released on April 6, 2018 through Interscope Records.It is their first album in five years, after Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), as well as their first and only release for Interscope, following the band's departure from Virgin Records in 2014.
America's best-known song is their 1972 debut single, "A Horse with No Name". It was the lead-off single to their self-titled debut album and became their first number one on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song was also a Top 5 hit in the United Kingdom reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart .
On the day of the album's release, the band uploaded the full album to be streamed for free. [ 10 ] "Only the Wild Ones", the first single and the first pre-released track, reached No. 9 on Billboard's AAA chart, [ 28 ] marking the band's highest position to date on that chart and their first top 20 track on the radio.
This album was a hit in the US, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard album chart and being certified Gold by the RIAA. It produced two hit singles: " Today's the Day ", which reached 23 on the Billboard singles chart and went all the way to number 1 on the adult contemporary chart for two weeks; and " Amber Cascades ", which peaked at 75 on ...
Gatefold sleeves were also frequently used when an album contained more than one record, with Bob Dylan's 1966 double album, Blonde on Blonde being an early example of a multi-LP album to be released in a gatefold. Typically, double albums would feature one disc in each half of the cover, with larger albums either placing multiple LPs in one or ...
The latter half of the 2010s trended toward similarly minimal marketing for hip hop album releases, with announcements in the form of social media posts unveiling only the cover art, track listing, or release date a few weeks prior at the most. [58] Other critics still believed in the album as a viable concept in the 21st century.