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It starts with highly popular releases. Each of the first 5 LPs sold over 4 million units to date. Obviously, they are no million sellers, although Paranoid is on its way to break over 10 million.
Each of these albums sold close or over 1 million in a pair of years in the US, a mark that was difficult to reach back then. They were all solid top 10 records in the UK, with Paranoid hitting the top. Sabotage still sold well, but from Technical Ecstasy interested consumers were rock fans.
Never Say Die failed to reverse the trend, missing the top 10 in the UK and the top 50 in the US, just like its predecessor.
This prompted the band to change of singer, with Dio replacing Ozzy Osbourne. Heaven and Hell benefited from this change, selling over 3 million units. Ironically, Ozzy Osbourne also happened to start a very successful solo career in , fueling back catalog sales of the band.
Albums up to Born Again continued to sell to fans of the genre. With this LP, the group recorded its 11th million seller in a row. Starting with Seventh Star , the group was facing strong difficulties in bringing new listeners. A bump of popularity in German-speaking countries supported global sales of the group, but they were now unable to move past 1 million units with one album in spite of the highly favorable market environment in the 90s.
In these years of fanbase-driven sales, much hyped comeback album 13 , the first studio release with Ozzy Osbourne vocals since , sold 1. As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.
As an illustration of this situation, out of the 3 singles from their debut album, only one, Evil Woman, was released in more than 1 country. Their first large release actually came in their sophomore era.
The song sold over , copies in each of the main markets in Europe, Germany, the UK, and France. It was a chart topper in the former country.
In the US, the song sold a bit, but it peaked at 61, with a much larger impact happening in the album front. These results concluded on 1. With subsequent reissues of the singles more than 20 of them , either alone or paired with Iron Man , the song adds for 1. Iron Man was a slightly bigger hit in the US, reaching This remains their highest charting song to date in this country. These back to back songs add for 2. Naturally, there are not much left for the rest. As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between one album and one digital single.
Just like most classic rock bands, Black Sabbath sold much more digital downloads than physical singles. If ever an album title was proved false, it was this one. It arrived as a major landmark: the first Sabbath album with Ozzy since And now, it has even greater significance, as the last Black Sabbath album, period. Bill Ward was absent due to a contractual dispute.
Mob Rules was also the first album the band recorded without Bill Ward, who quit during their tour. On the follow-up, cocaine was king. Recording Vol. Supernaut , the hardest hitting track on Vol. Wheels Of Confusion has the complexity of progressive rock. And on piano ballad Changes , Ozzy wailed like a wounded Elton John. More than just a great album, Vol. But in a time of crisis, the band created another classic.
Sabbath had a blast making Vol. Only when the band relocated to Clearwell Castle in Gloucestershire — where they believed they saw ghosts — did Iommi rediscover his mojo. And the finished album was even more adventurous than Vol. The mesmeric Spiral Architect utilized a string section, and Sabbra Cadabra — later covered by Metallica — had Rick Wakeman playing piano, for which he was paid in beer.
Instead, they delivered what is arguably the heaviest of all Sabbath albums. The result was an album that set the template for stoner rock, sludge and doom metal. Hippie-dom is dead, it said, this is reality.
War Pigs, originally meant to be titled Walpurgis, is a takedown of politicians playing chess with young lives without getting their hands dirty themselves. Even more chilling is Hand Of Doom. A number, damaged by their experiences, began using hard drugs like smack to deal with it. Add the nuclear warning of Electric Funeral, and Paranoid is a record that went where others were not. For some, the message was loud and clear, for others, the absolute perfection of the music was all.
And fairly enough. The stoned, acoustic strum of Planet Caravan is, after all, about little more than two souls flying through space together. Rat Salad is an electrifying jam where Bill Ward, for that moment, is the best drummer on Earth.
But, atop their debut, Paranoid confirmed wholly that Sabbath were different than their peers. They were sinister, dark, evil, a reflection of what they saw around them, heavy in both volume and subject, threatening, challenging.
But at the same time, Paranoid is magical, mystical, an occasionally hazy dream. But never do these contradict one another, never do they tangle.
Fifty years on, Paranoid remains the perfect album by the perfect band. Four nights. A throwback Bring Me The Horizon set. Bands picked by them. Colour us there….
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