Bryan Adams Greatest Hits Album
Sofía Goldthwait
Canadian singer Bryan Adams has released 18 studio releases, six compilation albums, two soundtrack albums, seven live albums, and 75 singles. After the success of his debut single, "Let Me Take You Dancing" (1979), Adams signed a recording contract with A&M Records. Bryan Adams (1980), his debut album, peaked at number 69 on the Canadian RPM Albums Chart. Adams followed this with You Want It You Got It (1981), which peaked at number 118 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold in Canada. Cuts Like a Knife, his third release, became his first successful work outside Canada. The album charted within the top 10 in Canada and the United States and was certified three-times platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Reckless (1984), his fourth studio album, selling over 12 million copies worldwide[1] and featured the hit singles "Run to You", "Heaven" and "Summer of '69".[2] In 1987, he released Into the Fire, which reached platinum status in the United States and triple-platinum in Canada.
Adams entered the 1990s with the release of Waking Up the Neighbours (1991), which contained "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", the theme song for the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. It went on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams's most successful song, and one of the best-selling singles of all time.[3] The album was sold in approximately 16 million copies, including being certified diamond in Canada.[4] He also released his first greatest hits compilation, So Far So Good, in 1993. This album topped the charts in nine countries and was certified six-times platinum and seven-times platinum by the RIAA and CRIA respectively. His seventh studio album, 18 til I Die, was released in 1996. It sold five million copies worldwide and was certified platinum in the United States.[5] MTV Unplugged, an acoustic live album released in 1997, reached the top 10 in four countries while selling two million copies in Europe. Adams' eighth studio album, On a Day Like Today (1998), was certified double-platinum by the CRIA and platinum by the IFPI Platinum Europe Awards. His second compilation album, The Best of Me (1999), sold two million copies in Europe and went three-times platinum in Canada.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) was certified gold by the RIAA and included the hit single "Here I Am". Room Service (2004), his ninth studio album, peaked at number 134 on the Billboard 200 and sold only 44,000 copies in the United States.[6] However, it topped the album charts in Germany and Switzerland. Adams' third greatest hits compilation, Anthology, was released in 2005. 11 (2008), Adams' tenth studio album, peaked at number 80 on the Billboard 200 and became his third number-one album in Canada. Although it did not receive any certifications in Canada or the United Kingdom, the album sold over half-a-million units worldwide.[7] In 2015, the thirteenth studio album Get Up was released; it reached the first position of the ranking in Switzerland, the second position in the UK and the third position in Germany. In September 2017, Adams announced via social media the release of a new compilation called Ultimate featuring 19 of his greatest hits and two new songs, "Please Stay" and "Ultimate Love". Shine a Light is the Canadian singer-songwriter's 14th studio album, which was released on March 1, 2019,.[8] The album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart.;[9] second place in the United Kingdom, [10] Switzerland,[11] Austria and New Zealand;[12][13] the third position in Germany.[14] According to the RIAA, Adams' album and singles sales have been certified at over 22 million copies[15] while globally, he has sold between 75[16] and 100 million records.[17][18]
Bryan Adams, singer, songwriter, guitarist (b at Kingston, Ont 5 Nov 1959). Bryan Adams was raised in England, Israel, Portugal and Austria, but settled in Vancouver at age 15. A year later he replaced Nick Gilder as the singer for Sweeney Todd for the If Wishes Were Horses album. At age 18 he began a songwriting partnership with Jim Vallance that would result in some of his biggest hits years later. In 1979 he forged his long-standing alliance with manager Bruce Allen.
Bryan Adams released his self-titled debut album for A&M Records in 1980, and he's remained with the label for his entire career. After 1981's You Want It You Got It, Adams's popularity soared with the release of his third album, Cuts Like a Knife, which spawned 3 international hits and earned him 4 JUNO Awards, including Best Male Vocalist and Album of the Year. Reckless (1984) was an even bigger hit, selling more than a million copies in Canada alone and including such smash hits as "Run to You,""Summer of '69" and "It's Only Love" (a duet with Tina Turner). Adams released 2 more albums, Into the Fire (1987) and Live! Live! Live! (1989), before scoring his next domestic million-seller with 1991's Waking Up the Neighbours. The album included "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," a song from the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which sold 7 million copies internationally that year and made the Guinness Book of World Records when its 16-week run at the top of the chart made it the longest-standing number-one single in British history.
A greatest hits package called So Far So Good was released in 1993, and Bryan Adams scored another number-one hit when he collaborated with Rod Stewart and Sting on "All for Love," the theme song for the film The Three Musketeers. He returned with new material on 1996's 18 Til I Die. While the album sold about 5 million copies worldwide, it stalled at around 400 000 in Canada and was looked upon by many as a disappointment in comparison to his earlier successes. Bryan Adams Unplugged (1997) showed a change of direction, with the artist performing acoustic versions of old hits, more obscure album tracks and 3 new songs.
Adams released his 10th studio album, On a Day Like Today, in 1998, and followed that up a year later with a second greatest-hits package, The Best of Me. Adams has always had a lot of success with songs for films, and that was again the case when he wrote the songs for the 2002 animated feature film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron. He also contributed new songs in 2005 to the films Color Me Kubrick and Racing Stripes. Adams's self-produced 14th album, Room Service, was largely recorded while on tour in Europe and was a major hit there when it was released in the fall of 2004. A 2-disc set titled Anthology, featuring both hits and lesser-known tracks from his catalogue, was released in 2005 along with the Live in Lisbon DVD.
Adams made a strong comeback with the March 2008 release of 11, which was his first album to top the Canadian sales chart since 18 Til I Die. The album also hit number one in India and Switzerland and had top-10 debuts in 11 countries before being issued exclusively by Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in the United States in May.
In total, Bryan Adams has recorded some 30 hit singles and sold almost 60 million albums worldwide. In 2000 he was awarded the Juno Award for Best Male Artist. He continues to tour around the globe and has racked up an impressive list of awards both in Canada and internationally. He was given the ORDER OF CANADA in 1990, the same year the Canadian Recording Industry Association named him its artist of the decade. He was elevated to Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003. Adams has won 18 Junos as well as numerous honours in other countries. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame during the 2006 Juno Awards. He has also released 2 books of his photographs of famous women as a means to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. Bryan Adams has been involved with numerous international charities and social causes and in 2006 became the first western artist to perform in Karachi, Pakistan, to help raise money to send underprivileged children to school.
One Direction has been fairly adamant that its announced 2016 extended hiatus is just that: a break from the nonstop hysteria that has surrounded the boy band for the last five years, culminating with the literal oceans of salty tween tears spilled when Zayn Malik left his four bros behind for a solo career earlier this year.
Save your haters gonna hate eye rolls. I've taken a lot of grief for unapologetically loving a lot of songs on One Direction's last two albums, "Four" and "Midnight Memories." The best of either record is pure pop art, meticulously constructed, expertly produced and delivered with genuine feeling by Malik, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. Sure, it was music as commerce, but that's true of most pop music.
"Made in the A.M.," however, sounds as if it were made because someone had a contract to fulfill (spoiler alert: it does). We'll see a greatest-hits album next year, which should be amazing, and that will likely be the last we hear from One Direction. It's just a shame that one of our guiltiest of pleasures barely tried on what is surely its swan song.
There are a few decent songs. "Olivia" is a clever pastiche of Paul McCartney tropes, stitched together so seamlessly that you barely care about its abject shamelessness (which, to be fair, has always been part of 1D's charm). "Long Way Down" hits all the right wounded-lover notes, as does "Love You Goodbye," although neither reach the truly outrageous levels of sap that has worked so well in the past. But nothing is as good as even the first minute of "Steal My Girl," from last year's "Four."
Here's the thing: One Direction's team, led by Julian Bunetta, has always managed to make great pop music by cloning the band's elders, sprinkling in bits of Journey, Def Leppard, Bryan Adams and Fleetwood Mac.
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