Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned Mosely novel "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned". Despite achieving commercial success upon release, the album is among the band's lowest-sellers. As a result, XL and Maverick dropped the group after the release of the compilation album "". In 1996, The Prodigy rose to fame outside their native UK with "Firestarter", the lead single from "The Fat of the Land", which was released in 1997 and topped several charts, including the "Billboard" 200. The band ended the tour that promoted the album, taking a break from touring and recording and writing material for their fourth studio album. To coincide with the departure
2008 in British music charts from Girls Aloud's Cheryl Cole, entered the top ten, along with British rapper Wiley's "Wearing My Rolex". New albums from R.E.M., The Kooks and Arctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turner's side project The Last Shadow Puppets all topped the charts. Coldplay released their new single "Violet Hill" on their website as a free of charge download for one week, and it was subsequently downloaded two million times. Number one albums in May were Madonna's "Hard Candy", Scooter's "Jumping All Over the World", Neil Diamond's "Home Before Dark", and "We Started Nothing" by The Ting Tings, who also went to number one