The Singles (Feeder album)

Infobox Album | Name = The Singles
Type = Compilation
Artist = Feeder


Released = May 15, 2006
Recorded = 1997-2006
Genre = Rock, alternative rock
Length = 1 hour 16 minutes
Label = Echo, EMI
Producers = Gil Norton, Grant Nicholas, Chris Sheldon, Brian Serper
Reviews =
*AllMusicGuide rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qramqjmroj6a link]
*BBC Collective (Positive) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A11766927 link]
*Daily Record rating|4|5
*Kerrang! rating|3|5
*Planet Sound rating|8|10
*Q rating|4|5| Last album = "Pushing The Senses"
(2005)
This album = "The Singles"
(2006)
Next album = "Silent Cry"
(2008)

"The Singles" is Feeder's second UK compilation album, following the limited release b-sides album "Picture of Perfect Youth".

The album has 18 of their UK top 40 hit single tracks (if "Shatter" and "Tender" are separately counted), with the exception of "Day In Day Out" and "Find The Colour", and includes the limited edition Arena Tour single "Comfort In Sound" and three new tracks, "Lost And Found", "Burn The Bridges" and "Save Us". "Lost and Found" and "Save Us" were released as singles to promote the compilation, charting at #12 and #34 in the UK respectively. [cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk|title=BPI searchable database|work=bpi.co.uk|accessdate=2006-05-21] "Burn The Bridges" is the only song on the compilation which was not released as a single.

It was the first time the singles "Suffocate" (a re-recorded version) and "Shatter" had a parent album connected to them while "Just a Day" (the edited version) had its first commercial album appearance (its unedited version also appears on "Picture Of Perfect Youth").

Limited Edition copies of the album are packaged with a DVD containing all of their promotional videos filmed to that point, bar an alternate "Piece By Piece" film used to promote the song's release as a single in mainland Europe. It is essentially an edit of the video for previous single "Suffocate".

The album made #2 in the UK charts after entering at #3 the week before. [cite web|url=http://www.everyhit.com|title=Everyhit.com searchable database|work=everyhit.com|accessdate=2007-05-20] [cite web|url=http://www.dvdfever.co.uk/charts/mu270506.shtml#LP|title=DVD Fever chart analysis|work=dvdfever.com|accessdate=2006-05-21] It went Platinum in August shipping over 300,000 copies. [cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk|title=BPI searchable database|work=bpi.co.uk|accessdate=2006-05-21] The album also seen an increase in publicity for the band, with a commercial on terrestrial TV which promoted the release. [cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZ4O5BGVN8|title=Feeder- The Singles UK TV advertisement|work=youtube.com|accessdate=2007-05-20]

At the end of 2006, the album's UK shipment increased to 500,000, and went Gold in the Republic of Ireland with sales over 7,500. [cite web|url=http://www.chrysalis.com/investor_reports_db/Chrysalis%20Group%20Full%20Annual%20Report.pdf|title=Chrysalis Business Report|work=chrysalis.com|accessdate=2007-05-20] [cite web|url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/awards/gold06.htm|title=Gold Certifications database|work=irishcharts.ie|accessdate=2007-05-20]

Reception

The album is currently Feeder's longest-running release on the album top 5, top 10, top 20, top 30, and top 40 respectively. It has, to date, spent 30 weeks on the top 75, six behind "Comfort in Sound", but charted on the 2006 year-end chart at #48, beating the #66 of the latter in 2003. It is also Feeder's first release to date to climb up the charts on its second week, in which it moved from #3 to #2 behind the Red Hot Chilli Peppers's "Stadium Arcadium"; the following week it then dropped back down to its starting position of #3 when Orson's "Bright Idea" entered at the top. The album then dropped to #8 the week after, giving them their first album to spend more than a week in the top 10. It also spent the same number of weeks in those positions as all their four previous studio albums combined.

It was the UK's best-selling album by a British artist for its first three weeks, outselling the year's eventual biggest-seller, "Eyes Open" by Snow Patrol, for each of those weeks during that time. The album gained a UK platinum certification.

The album also became the first ever Feeder release to gain a non-UK sales certification, with 7,500 copies qualifying it for gold status in Ireland. Although the album was not as well received in the mainland of Europe as "Pushing the Senses", it became Feeder's first ever top 10 breakthrough on the European Top 100 Albums, with a 16 week stay on the top 100, mainly due to its UK chart peak, making the top 20 in Ireland, and top 100 in Flanders. In Japan, the album became Feeder's first top 40 sales-chart entry anywhere outside of the UK and Ireland, by charting at #37.

The album also holds the record as the fastest-selling release on the Echo label, in terms of time taken to go platinum. The album shipped its 300,000th copy just under three months after its release date, beating the previous record held by the Moloko album "Things to Make and Do", which had taken six months. The album is seen by many corners of the British music press as a large commercial sucsess.

Track listing

CD
#"Come Back Around" – 3:12 - from "Comfort In Sound"
#"Buck Rogers" – 3:12 - from "Echo Park"
#"Shatter" – 2:57 - originally a b-side for 'Tumble And Fall', and the Japanese "Pushing The Senses".
#"Just the Way I'm Feeling" – 4:18 - from "Comfort In Sound"
#"Lost and Found" – 2:56 - new song
#"Just A Day" (Edit) – 3:45 - original version appears on "Picture Of Perfect Youth"
#"High" – 4:33 - from the "Polythene" reissue
#"Comfort In Sound" (Spike Mix) – 3:37 - original version on "Comfort In Sound"
#"Feeling A Moment" – 4:09 - from "Pushing The Senses"
#"Burn The Bridges" – 3:37 - new song
#"Tumble And Fall" – 4:20 - from "Pushing The Senses"
#"Forget About Tomorrow" – 3:51 - from "Comfort In Sound"
#"Tender" – 4:16 - from "Pushing The Senses"
#"Pushing The Senses" – 3:27 - from "Pushing The Senses"
#"Save Us" – 3:50 - new song
#"Seven Days In The Sun" – 3:39 - from "Echo Park"
#"Insomnia" – 2:52 - from "Yesterday Went Too Soon"
#"Turn" – 4:30 - from "Echo Park"
#"Yesterday Went Too Soon" – 4:17 - from "Yesterday Went Too Soon"
#"Suffocate" (Single version) – 4:43 - original version on "Polythene"

DVD
# Lost And Found – 2:58
# Shatter – 3:00
# Tender – 4:21
# Pushing The Senses – 3:26
# Feeling A Moment – 4:13
# Tumble And Fall – 4:21
# Comfort In Sound – 3:40
# Find The Colour – 3:43
# Forget About Tomorrow – 3:52
# Just The Way I'm Feeling – 4:04
# Come Back Around – 3:15
# Piece By Piece (Animated Version) – 4:20
# Just A Day – 4:09
# Turn – 4:07
# Seven Days In The Sun – 3:41
# Buck Rogers – 3:12
# Paperfaces – 4:03
# Yesterday Went Too Soon – 4:20
# Insomnia – 3:00
# Day In Day Out – 3:29
# Suffocate – 4:03
# High – 4:28
# Crash – 3:49
# Cement – 3:18
# Tangerine – 3:55
# Stereo World – 3:30

Charts

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