Public Enemy (band) Mainstream success (1987-1994) What mainstream success did the band have? Nation of Millions... was the first hip hop album to be voted album of the year in The Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop critics' poll.
What hit singles did the album had?
What hit singles did Nation of Millions have?
Their debut album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, was released in 1987 to critical acclaim. The album was the group's first step toward stardom. In October 1987, music critic Simon Reynolds dubbed Public Enemy "a superlative rock band". They released their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988, which performed better in the charts than their previous release, and included the hit single "Don't Believe the Hype" in addition to "Bring the Noise". Nation of Millions... was the first hip hop album to be voted album of the year in The Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop critics' poll.  In 1989, the group returned to the studio to record Fear of a Black Planet, which continued their politically charged themes. The album was supposed to be released in late 1989, but was pushed back to April 1990. It was the most successful of any of their albums and, in 2005, was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress. It included the singles "Welcome To The Terrordome", "911 Is a Joke", which criticized emergency response units for taking longer to arrive at emergencies in the black community than those in the white community, and "Fight the Power". "Fight the Power" is regarded as one of the most popular and influential songs in hip hop history. It was the theme song of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.  The group's next release, Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black, continued this trend, with songs like "Can't Truss It", which addressed the history of slavery and how the black community can fight back against oppression; "I Don't Wanna be Called Yo Nigga", a track that takes issue with the use of the word nigga outside of its original derogatory context. The album also included the controversial song and video "By the Time I Get to Arizona", which chronicled the black community's frustration that some US states did not recognize Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday. The video featured members of Public Enemy taking out their frustrations on politicians in the states not recognizing the holiday. In 1992, the group was one of the first rap acts to perform at the Reading Festival, in England, headlining the second day of the three-day festival. CANNOTANSWER
Can't Truss It
Instant Pleasure is Rockell's second album, released on October 10, 2000, on Robbins Entertainment. It is more pop oriented than her debut and was mostly produced by Tony Moran and Hex Hector.  The album features the hit singles "What U Did 2 Me", "Tears" and "The Dance".

Track listing

Chart positions
Singles - Billboard (North America)

2000 albums
Rockell albums American music artist Marvin Gaye released 25 studio albums, four live albums, one soundtrack album, 24 compilation albums, and 83 singles. In 1961 Gaye signed a recording contract with Tamla Records, owned by Motown. The first release under the label was The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye. Gaye's first album to chart was a duet album with Mary Wells titled Together, peaking at number forty-two on the Billboard pop album chart. His 1965 album, Moods of Marvin Gaye, became his first album to reach the top ten of the R&B album charts and spawned four hit singles. Gaye recorded more than thirty hit singles for Motown throughout the 1960s, becoming established as "the Prince of Motown". Gaye topped the charts in 1968 with his rendition of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", while his 1969 album, M.P.G., became his first number one R&B album. Gaye's landmark album, 1971's What's Going On became the first album by a solo artist to launch three top ten singles, including the title track. His 1973 single, "Let's Get It On", topped the charts while its subsequent album reached number two on the charts becoming his most successful Motown album to date. In 1982, after 21 years with Motown, Gaye signed with Columbia Records and issued Midnight Love, which included his most successful single to date, "Sexual Healing". Following his death in 1984, three albums were released posthumously while some of Gaye's landmark works were re-issued.

Gaye recorded sixty seven charted singles on the Billboard charts, with forty-one reaching the top forty, eighteen reaching the top ten and three peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Sixty of his singles reached the top forty of the R&B charts, with thirty-eight of those reaching the top ten and thirteen peaking at number one. Gaye also had success in international charts, his biggest success in sales and chart positions peaking in the UK while achieving modest success in other countries.

Studio albums

1960s

1970–1984

Posthumous

Collaborative albums

Soundtrack albums

Live albums

Compilation albums
There has been over 300 official and unofficial compilation albums released across the world for Marvin Gaye.  Below is a selected discography of compilation albums with chart history.

1960s–1970s

1980s–1990s

2000-present

Singles

1960s

1970–1984

Posthumous

Billboard Year-End performances

Footnotes
 What's Going On did not chart in Ireland until 2006.
 What's Going On did not chart in the UK until 1996.
 With Mary Wells.
 With Kim Weston.
 With Tammi Terrell.
 By Gladys Knight & the Pips.
 "What's Going On" did not chart in The UK until 1983.
 With Diana Ross.
 With Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder.
 "A Funky Space Reincarnation" peaked at #8 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
 "Sanctified Lady" peaked at #1 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.
 Erick Sermon featuring Marvin Gaye.
 By Cha Cha.
 Erick Sermon featuring LL Cool J and Scarface.
 By The Temptations.

Music videos

Other appearances

Notes

References

External links
 Marvin Gaye – The Early Years: a detailed list of singles released by Marvin Gaye in the mid-to-late-1950s
 Marvin Gaye – US singles: 1961–1990
 Marvin Gaye – US albums: 1961–1985

Rhythm and blues discographies
Discography
Discographies of American artists
Soul music discographies House of Lords is the fourth album by Lords of the Underground, their first album in eight years.  The album was released on August 21, 2007 for Affluent Records and was produced by Marley Marl, K-Def and DJ Lord Jazz.  Like the group's previous album Resurrection the album received very little promotion and was a commercial failure, and it did not make it to the Billboard charts nor did it produce any hit singles.

Track listing
"Intro"- 0:44
"I Love Hip Hop"- 3:14
"Fab 3"- 3:22
"English Mami"- 3:38
"Yes Were Fresh"- 3:20
"Belly of the Beast"- 3:53
"Hum It Out"- 3:22
"Slick Talk"- 3:25
"Say My Name"- 3:54
"No Pass"- 2:37
"To Love Me"- 4:02
"The Clinic"- 3:32
"Certified"- 2:47
"What Yall Wanna Know"- 3:26
"What Is an MC"- 3:21
"Remember Me"- 3:39

Lords of the Underground albums
2007 albums