No Angel
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| No Angel | ||
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| Studio album by Dido | ||
| Released | June, 1999 | |
| Recorded | 1998-1999 | |
| Genre | Pop | |
| Length | 56:32 | |
| Label | Cheeky/Arista - Sony BMG | |
| Producer(s) | ? | |
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| Dido chronology | ||
| Odds & Ends (1995) |
No Angel (1999) |
Life for Rent (2003) |
No Angel is Dido's debut album. Originally released in 1999, it found a mass audience in 2001, and went onto sell over 13.5million copies worldwide.
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[edit] Worldwide success
The success of No Angel was spurred on by Eminem sampling Dido's track, "Thank You" on "Stan," a track on his The Marshall Mathers LP album, released in 2000. The Marshall Mathers LP reached number one on the US and Canadian charts, and Dido appeared in the music video for "Stan," which was the second single from the album, playing the fictional character, Stan's, long-suffering girlfriend. While the song only reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, it went to #1 in the UK and Australia and was an international hit. "Stan" was nominated for a Grammy award for the track (Dido did not sing with Eminem at the ceremony; Elton John sang Dido's section).
The album also began to reach a mass audience, when the debut single, "Here With Me," was chosen as the title music to the hit TV series Roswell. Due to record company conflicts, the album was released in the USA first in 1999, and began surfacing in Dido's homeland, the UK, on import alone. In December 2000, a month ahead of its official UK release, No Angel went top 10 in the UK; a month later it hit #1 when it was officially released as a special edition, featuring the videos to "Here With Me" and "Thank You." "Here With Me" was later released in February 2001, as a commercial single, and reached #4 on the official UK singles chart; it also went top ten in Portugal and Greece, top 40 in France, America, and New Zealand.
"Thank You", the album's second single, was a huge radio airplay success, thanks in part to people recognising the first verse from "Stan", and reached #3 in the UK singles charts and #1 in Brazil. The prior single, "Here With Me"'s moderate American success garnered its video (which had two different versions) heavy airplay on MTV2 in 2000. However, it was not until the video for "Thank You" that Dido achieved massive success on mainstream American music television, such as MTV and VH1.
The third single, "Hunter," went top twenty on the World Adult Chart and the UK singles charts, while achieving top ten success in Portugal and Greece. "My Lover's Gone" reached the top of the charts in Brazil, where it was in the soundtrack of a famous soap opera, while "Don't Think of Me" made the US Adult Contemporary top 40.
No Angel was one of the best selling albums of 2001 throughout the world, being named the biggest selling album of 2001 in the UK and the second best seller in Australia (certified 6x platinum for sales of over 420,000k). The album also went top 3 in the US album charts and reached #5 in Canada. Prior to the album's release, a promotional EP entitled The Highbury Fields EP had been sent out in America, featuring 4 album tracks, and "Worthless," which was not included on No Angel, but was featured on the "first" Dido album, a promotional album sent out by her management in order to get record company interest, entitled Odds & Ends.
The album won the prize for Best Album at the 2002 Brit awards, where Dido also won the Best British Female award.
In 2006, the album was certified 3× platinum in Switzerland, meaning it sold over 100,000 copies there.
[edit] Track listing
- "Here With Me" (Dido Armstrong, Pascal Gabriel, Paul Statham) – 4:14
- "Hunter" (D. Armstrong, Rollo Armstrong) – 3:57
- "Don't Think of Me" (D. Armstrong, R. Armstrong, Paul Herman, Pauline Taylor) – 4:32
- "My Lover's Gone" (D. Armstrong, Jamie Catto) – 4:27
- "All You Want" (D. Armstrong, R. Armstrong, Herman) – 3:53
- "Thank You" (D. Armstrong, Herman) – 3:37
- "Honestly OK" (D. Armstrong, R. Armstrong, Matt Benbrook) – 4:37
- "Slide" (D. Armstrong, Herman) – 4:53
- "Isobel" (D. Armstrong, R. Armstrong) – 3:54
- "I'm No Angel" (D. Armstrong, Gabriel, Statham) – 3:55
- "My Life" (D. Armstrong, R. Armstrong, Mark Bates) – 3:09
- "Take My Hand" (D. Armstrong, Richard Dekkard) – 6:42
[edit] Singles
- "Here with Me" (2001)
- "Thank You" (2001)
- "Hunter" (2002)
- "All You Want" (2002)
[edit] Trivia
- An early version of "My Lover's Gone" was previously performed by Dido with dance group Faithless on the track "Postcards" (from their 1998 album Sunday 8PM). The chorus is mostly used, however the lyric can be heard differently as "My love has gone."
