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Demon Days

October 18, 2023

Demon Days is the second studio album by the British virtual band Gorillaz. It was released on 11 May 2005 in Japan and 23 May 2005 in the United Kingdom by Parlophone and in the United States by Virgin Records. Produced by Gorillaz, Danger Mouse, Jason Cox, and James Dring, it features De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF Doom, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder and Dennis Hopper.

Demon Days
Studio album by
Gorillaz
Released11 May 2005 (2005-05-11)
RecordedMar 3rd - Nov 28th 2004
StudioStudio 13, London
Genre
Length51:42
Label
Producer
Gorillaz album chronology
Laika Come Home
(2002) 		Demon Days
(2005) 		D-Sides
(2007)
Damon Albarn chronology
Democrazy
(2003) 		Demon Days
(2005) 		The Good, the Bad & the Queen
(2007)
Singles from Demon Days
  1. "Feel Good Inc."
    Released: 9 May 2005
  2. "Dare"
    Released: 29 August 2005
  3. "Dirty Harry"
    Released: 21 November 2005
  4. "Kids with Guns" / "El Mañana"
    Released: 10 April 2006

As with the band's eponymous 2001 debut, Demon Days and its performances were accompanied by various multimedia, including interactive features on the Gorillaz website, animated music videos and animatics. The visuals were designed by the Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett, under his design company Zombie Flesh Eaters.

Demon Days reached the top 10 in 22 countries. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and number 6 on the US Billboard 200,[1][2][3] and was later certified six times platinum in the UK and double platinum in the US. Outperforming their debut, the album has sold eight million copies worldwide.[4][5] The album spawned the singles "Feel Good Inc.", "Dare", "Dirty Harry", "Kids with Guns", and "El Mañana".

Spin ranked Demon Days the fourth-best album of 2005, while Mojo ranked it at number eighteen on their year-end list and hailed the album as a "genre-busting, contemporary pop milestone". The NME placed the album at number 98 on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade,[6] and Uncut placed it at number 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade.[7] Complex included it on their list of 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade, placing it at number 43,[8] and Spin later included it in their list of "The 300 Best Albums of 1985–2014".[9] In 2020, the album was included at the 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list of Stacker, being ranked at 25.[10]

Background Edit

While Jamie Hewlett was working with his team on a script for a possible Gorillaz movie, Damon Albarn was still recording Think Tank with Blur. By the time Albarn was ready to start writing and recording material for the Gorillaz movie, the whole idea had already been scrapped, although ideas from the movie's script were still used, including the themes of being driven by ego and the world being trapped in an endless night. Despite this, the album's main source of inspiration actually came about as a result of Albarn's train journey from Beijing to Mongolia where he, his partner and six-year-old daughter spent a day travelling through what Albarn describes as a "weird, unspoken, forgotten part of China. It was basically dead trees as far as the eye can see," Albarn recalls. "Dust bowls, loose earth rapidly turning into desert. There are little satellite towns in the middle of these semi deserts that are absolutely on their knees. And it's the size of Europe this area. And then you wake up in the morning with this nightmare in your head and it's blue sky and beautiful sand, which looks fantastic now but was probably something else millions of years ago. And that will happen to us in our lifetime."[11][12][13]

"Gorillaz make dark pop; that's what they always set out to achieve," Albarn said in an interview with MTV News. "The whole album kind of tells the story of the night — staying up during the night — but it's also an allegory. It's what we're living in basically, the world in a state of night."[14]

Hewlett was excited by the prospect of a second Gorillaz album, saying, "Let's repeat the same process, but do it better. Because everyone thought it was a gimmick. If you do it again, it's no longer a gimmick, and if it works then we've proved a point. And instantly, all of us got excited".[12]

Recording Edit

 
The album was produced by Danger Mouse.

The most obvious difference on the band's second offering is the absence of Dan "the Automator" Nakamura as the acting musical producer. Instead, Albarn reached out to Danger Mouse based on the strength of The Grey Album, which brought Danger Mouse to prominence for mixing the Beatles' The White Album and Jay-Z's The Black Album. "Dan [the Automator] wasn't busy, the project just needed a slightly different approach," Albarn explained. "Danger Mouse, in my opinion, is one of the best young producers in the world. I think the last record was a lot more simplistic. It was virgin territory — animated hip-hop, reggae, stroke-rock, Latin rock — there's a lot more intricacy with this record." Danger Mouse was join the project on April 7th 2004. Danger Mouse was a longtime fan of Albarn's other band Blur, the feelings of admiration and respect were mutual. "It was a no-brainer when there was interest there from Damon," Burton said. "I heard demos of the new record, but the biggest part was getting the chance to be a part of something that's so strong — you just gotta jump on it. I had a very up-and-down year [in 2004], but it was definitely a big up when I got a chance to [work with Gorillaz]."[14]

"I learned so much working on the record with Damon", claimed Danger Mouse. "...and it was sink or swim. You just pick it up. At the end of the day, the people you're working with – whether it's the choir or string section or guitarist – are specialized in what they do. All you have to do is figure out the best thing they're doing and how it's going to fit within the context of the whole project. That goes back to putting together a song on a computer-based program. You're looking for all the parts that are going to make something sound right. It's also being able to communicate. I had done stuff before Gorillaz – like the Pelican City stuff – where I worked with musicians, so it wasn't completely foreign to me."[15]

 
De La Soul collaborated on the most successful Gorillaz song, "Feel Good Inc.".

As on Gorillaz, there are plenty of guest collaborators, including rappers De La Soul, Bootie Brown from the Pharcyde, and MF Doom along with Ike Turner on keyboards, the singer Shaun Ryder from Happy Mondays and the actor and director Dennis Hopper, who narrates a parable ("Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head") about innocence, greed and retribution set to a droll reggae bounce. That song leads into a stretch of ethereal vocal harmonies, in a clear homage to the Beach Boys. Albarn said he couldn't make the vocal parts sound right until he had a minor revelation. "If you've ever seen the Beach Boys in footage, they're all smiling, desperately keeping the upbeat Beach Boy thing alive, while Brian Wilson is just absolutely glum as hell. So I did three harmonies smiling with my face. And then one just being really miserable, which was Brian. Now it's got that vibe."[16]

"Kids with Guns" was inspired by a boy in Albarn's daughter's class who turned up to school with a knife. "A nice boy", said Albarn, "just decided to pick up a knife and show it to his friends at lunchtime. It's a very real problem, but I'm not treating it as a problem. It's part of the brutalisation of a generation that's going on at the moment". "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", meanwhile, is a parable read by Dennis Hopper that seems to have clear parallels with the war for oil.

Regarding the song "Dare" and the collaboration with Shaun Ryder, Albarn also said: "I love Shaun Ryder. During the whole Oasis thing, he and Bernard Sumner were the only two who cared about what I was going through. Being constantly taken the piss out of by Noel & Liam (Gallagher). How can you fight when you've got the tabloids and a working class attitude on your back? You're fucked. But Shaun was really sweet to me and made me feel a whole lot better about it. Because I did get quite upset about it, so was selecting Shaun karma in action, then? Yeah, definitely". The song's title is purported to have come about due to Ryder's thick Mancunian accent; he was unable to say the phrase "It's There", which was the song's original title, so it was changed simply to "Dare".[17] Roses Gabor takes over the role of Noodle from Miho Hatori, who provided the vocals for her on the first album. Albarn provides backing vocals; however, to blend his vocals with Gabor's, his voice was toned down to be slightly covered up. Albarn's full vocalization can be heard on the D-Sides remix album. D-Sides features a demo version of "Dare" entitled "People". This version contains the same background beat while lacking the majority of the keyboards and effects in the final recording. Unlike the final version, it is completely sung by Albarn and features an Omnichord breakdown.

Rapper Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird appear on the track "All Alone" (the instrumental of which was partially recorded in Africa) and also recorded another track entitled "Snakes and Ladders". The track does not appear on the album or D-Sides, however, the track was sampled by Topley-Bird for her song "Soldier Boy", which appears as a B-side for her song "Poison" which features Roots Manuva and features a production credit for Gorillaz. The track can be heard partially on the Gorillaz documentary-film Bananaz,[18] and is also sampled on the track "Intro".[citation needed]

Musical style and themes Edit

Sputnikmusic wrote that the album's style "is a strong foray into the melding of hip hop into pop and rock music."[19] Odyssey said that the album was "apocalyptic dark pop at its finest, strangest, and most topical".[20] Vice called the album a "British pop masterpiece", and wrote that its music "flits between UK rap, alternative rock, piano-pop, trip-hop, reggae, and Beach Boys psychedelia".[21] The Unapologists called the album "both a typical post-9/11 political statement and mid-2000s alt-rock masterpiece".[22] Spin described the album as a "slinky folk-disco-hip-hop-Afro-pop-punk expedition".[23] Robert Christgau labelled the album "pop trip-hop",[24] while Happy Mag listed it as a key work in the art rock style.[25]

Demon Days prominently makes use of string sections, which were organized under the lead of Isabelle Dunn, who formed Demon Strings for the album and its later live performances. Choirs are also incorporated, including the San Fernandez Youth Chorus on "Dirty Harry", and the London Community Gospel Choir on the album's final two tracks, "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" and "Demon Days".

Albarn has said that the album is meant to be a depiction of a journey through the night in which each track represents a confrontation with a personal "demon". The album also has many lyrical themes centered on the destruction humans are causing worldwide; speaking about the track "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", Albarn explained, "That came from a very naive idea, which is: what is going to happen when they've taken all of the oil out of the earth? Aren't there going to be these vast holes? Surely those holes shouldn't be empty. Surely there is a reason why they had all of this in. It's like bad plastic surgery, eventually it collapses."[11] Mike Schiller of PopMatters wrote that Demon Days "[provides] its listeners not with a story arc, but a "music arc" [which] starts off slow, and honestly, not all that strange", describing the first few tracks as "[sounding] a bit like the Casioed version of a mid-'90s trip-hop album."[26] The album's opener, "Intro" contains a sample from "Dark Earth", from the soundtrack to the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead.

Release and marketing Edit

Demon Days was first mentioned in articles detailing the reopening of Gorillaz' website in early December 2004. Initially, a March or April 2005 release date was announced, but this date was later pushed back. In an article for Q in February 2005, it was reported that the album was to be titled We Are Happy Landfill. Another early title was reported to be Reject False Icons, which is also the title of Gorillaz' culture jamming project. In January 2005, a promo for the song "Dirty Harry" was released as a white label 12", and an exclusive video was released online entitled "Rock It". It was later reported that the track would not appear on the album, although it later appeared on D-Sides, a collection of remixes, rare songs and B-sides released in November 2007. Demon Days' lead single "Feel Good Inc." became Gorillaz' biggest hit at the time, while the album's second single, "Dare" featuring Shaun Ryder, was a big hit as well and gave the band their first number one single in the UK. Since its release, Demon Days has been certified double platinum in the US[27] and 6× platinum in the UK.[28] It was also certified Gold in Japan.[29]

The limited edition of the album includes a DVD containing the video, audio commentary and an animatic for the music video "Feel Good Inc.", short animated films featuring the band, an exclusive audio track titled "The Swagga" and online access to exclusive sections of the band's website, with various wallpapers and screensavers,[30] as well as a crowbar, facilitating the opening of a locked cupboard in the kitchen on Gorillaz.com in order to download the song, "Happy Landfill". This content is no longer available, however, the track appears on D-Sides (re-titled "We Are Happy Landfill").

Reject False Icons Edit

The phrase "Reject False Icons" was first mentioned on 24 November 2004 on a Gorillaz mail out to fans.[31] On 8 December, the Gorillaz website was re-opened with a brand new music video, "Rockit", which has the saying "Reject False Icons" at the end.[32] On 19 December, the "Reject False Icons" campaign kicked off with the launch of rejectfalseicons.com. Fans could submit their photos of ways to spread the message by using graffiti or by sticking "Reject False Icons" stickers that were available for a limited period from the site and from selected record shops in the UK.

Search for a Star Edit

In December 2004, Gorillaz launched their own talent contest, Search for a Star, to find an artist to collaborate with.[33] There were on average over 100 entries per week whittled down to around 10 to be put forward for the public vote. The 200+ entries were viewed over a million times. A gallery room was added to Kong Studios which displayed all of the entries. Gorillaz' competition was initially run to pick just one winner from entries submitted to Gorillaz.com. However, at the end of the competition, it was announced that two further entries – one from the submitted images, and one from the submitted audio files – would be chosen by online vote.

All three collaborated on the fourth single release of Phase Two, "Kids with Guns" / "El Mañana". Sourbee provided his animated incarnation of the "Don't Get Lost in Heaven (Original Demo Version)" B-side, featured on the DVD version of the single. Asidus made a "Dirty Harry" remix called "Uno Quatro" featured on the Gorillaz website. Irina Bolshakova aka Schneeflocke created her own artistic interpretation of "El Mañana", featured on an insert included on the DVD version of the single. The winners were also originally supposed to have their own rooms in Kong Studios, but that never came to pass.[citation needed]

Reception Edit

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic82/100[34]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [35]
Entertainment WeeklyB[36]
The Guardian     [37]
Los Angeles Times    [38]
Mojo     [39]
NME8/10[40]
Pitchfork6.9/10[41]
Q     [42]
Rolling Stone     [43]
SpinB[44]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Demon Days received an average score of 82, indicating "universal acclaim".[34] AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Demon Days "is unified and purposeful in a way Albarn's music hasn't been since The Great Escape" and "stands alongside the best Blur albums, providing a tonal touchstone for this decade the way Parklife did for the '90s."[35] Paul Mardles of The Observer felt that, compared to Gorillaz, the songs on Demon Days were more "fully realised and pregnant with ideas", and that the album may prove to be Albarn's "masterwork".[45] Writing in Entertainment Weekly, David Browne called it "spookier, blippier, and more on edge."[36] Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn stated that Albarn's "evocative words, compelling if understated melodic sense and subdued vocals" are at the emotional center of Demon Days, "transcending the gimmick even more than on the first Gorillaz album."[38]

Rob Mitchum of Pitchfork felt that while Demon Days was uneven, Albarn's experiments "fit together just often enough to again make Gorillaz more than mere Adult Swim novelty."[41] In a mixed assessment, Alex Mar of Rolling Stone described Demon Days as "hit-or-miss" and felt that Albarn's "phoned-in and incredibly flat" vocals weighed the record down.[43] In contrast, Uncut stated that the album featured "great beats, brilliant production, top tunes and some of Albarn's best singing."[46] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave Demon Days a three-star honourable mention, indicating "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure", and selected "All Alone" and "Dare" as highlights.[24][47]

Accolades Edit

"Feel Good Inc.", the lead single from Demon Days, won the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals accolade at the 48th Grammy Awards.[48] The album was nominated for British Album of the Year at the 2006 Brit Awards, but lost to Coldplay's X&Y.[49] Demon Days won the accolade for Best International Album at 2006 Danish Music Awards[50] and made the band win the accolade for Best Group at 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards.[51]

Demon Days was voted the 21st best album of the year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for 2005.[52] The album was chosen as the tenth best album of 2005 by NME[53] and the 2nd one for Q magazine.[54] Glide Magazine listed the album on its Best Albums of the Decade, ranking it at 46.[55] Spin ranked Demon Days as the fourth best album of 2005,[56] while Mojo ranked it at number eighteen on their year-end list[57] and hailed the album as a "genre-busting, contemporary pop milestone." NME placed it 98th on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade.[6] Uncut ranked it at 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade.[7] Complex included it on their list of 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade, placing it at number 43.[8] The Guardian listed the album on its Top 50 Albums of the decade, ranking it at 11.[58] Spin later included it in their list of The 300 Best Albums of 1985–2014.[9] In 2016, Q ranked Demon Days as one of The Greatest Albums of the Last 30 Years.[59] In 2020, the album was included at the 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list of Stacker, being ranked at 27.[60]

Legacy Edit

Despite its only modestly positive reception at release, Demon Days is now considered to have left an indelible mark on alternative music and has since been variously hailed as "iconic",[61] "classic",[62] "timeless"[63] and a "modern masterpiece".[64]

Multiple writers have noted how Demon Days' commentary was prescient for outlining social and environmental issues in the following years of the 21st century. In an eleventh-anniversary retrospective, Angus Harrison wrote for Noisey UK that while at the time the record was perceived as "corny, ranty, and hysterical," and even "pretentious twaddle," it is now viewed as "scarily prescient" and "a thrilling allegory set on the precipice of an increasingly dark stretch of modern history."[65] In Vinyl Me, Please's Liner Notes series, Kyle Kramer called the "tormented, large-scale questions" of the album "more relevant than ever," whether in "2017 or much further down the line."[66] John of audiosnobbery pens that "this doomsday scenario was simply viewed as a self-indulgent and pretentious move from Albarn, but, 14 years later, the messages and problems explored in Demon Days are more pertinent than ever: overpopulation, false gods, guns, violence, depression, corruption and greed. The world is not better than it was, and this is precisely why listening to Demon Days today is even more interesting than in 2005 – these are the true Demon Days."[67] Hatim Hafid of River Beats Dance describes that "Demon Days acts as a direct societal critique on colonialism and invasion. It highlights the negative practices used to exploit countries in the name of democracy and peace", and "...Demon Days remains as one of the most politically charged pieces of the era."[63] Tim Karan of Diffuser has called Demon Days as "one of the most innovative albums of the 21st century". He also classified the album as "dense and atmospheric".[68] Sean Craig from Mixed Frequencies said that Demon Days is "as dense as a 50-minute album can be, packed with hit after hit, feature after feature, and changes in musical style so fast that it can give you whiplash if you're not prepared for it. It's a dark, apocalyptic album that brims with energy and funk, a pop music oxymoron in every fiber of its being. It's an idiosyncrasy made manifest, something that uses sounds from every possible corner of the musical world and blends them together, in turn sounding almost entirely its own."[69]

Artists including Kali Uchis,[70] ASAP Rocky,[71] and Trippie Redd[72] have suggested Demon Days specifically as an influence on their work (among many others who have cited the project as a whole), with the latter saying it provides him with inspiration to create "timeless" work. Mura Masa commented how Demon Days has influenced him to invite Damon Albarn to work in his track "Blu": "...Demon Days was the first album I bought, so getting to meet up and actually work with him was crazy."[73]

The music videos for singles from Demon Days, "Feel Good Inc.", "Dare", and "El Mañana" have amassed millions of views on YouTube; in 2011, Rolling Stone clocked "Feel Good Inc." as the 99th best song of the 2000s.[74] In 2020, the song "Dirty Harry" trended on video-sharing platform TikTok, featured by users conceptualizing themselves as cartoon characters (referencing Gorillaz' virtual nature).[75]

Track listing Edit

Demon Days – Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Intro"
1:03
2."Last Living Souls"
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
3:10
3."Kids with Guns"
3:46
4."O Green World"
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
  • Burton
4:32
5."Dirty Harry" (featuring Bootie Brown)
3:44
6."Feel Good Inc." (featuring De La Soul)
3:41
7."El Mañana"
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
  • Burton
3:50
8."Every Planet We Reach Is Dead"
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
4:53
9."November Has Come" (featuring MF Doom)
2:41
10."All Alone" (featuring Roots Manuva)
3:30
11."White Light"
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
2:08
12."Dare" (featuring Shaun Ryder)
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
  • Burton
  • Ryder
4:04
13."Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head"
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
3:16
14."Don't Get Lost in Heaven"
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
2:00
15."Demon Days"
  • Albarn
  • Hewlett
4:29
Total length:50:47

Personnel Edit

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Demon Days.[76]

Musicians Edit

Technical Edit

Artwork Edit

  • J.C. Hewlett – artwork, design
  • Zombie Flesh Eaters – artwork, design

Singles Edit

  • "Feel Good Inc." was the first single released from the album. It was released as a single in the UK and Australia on 9 May 2005, and charted at number two in the UK,[77] number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100[78] and number one on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks.[79]
  • "Dare" was the second single released from the album. It was released on 29 August 2005 in the UK. The single charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart,[77] number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[79] and number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100.[78]
  • "Dirty Harry" was the third single released from the album. It was released on 21 November 2005 in the UK, and charted at number six on the UK Singles Chart.[77]
  • "Kids with Guns" / "El Mañana" was the fourth and final single released from the album. It was released on 10 April 2006 in the UK. The winners for the Search for a Star competition collaborated with Gorillaz in various ways on the single. The single charted at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart.[77]

Charts Edit

Decade-end charts Edit

Chart (2000–09) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[159] 90
UK Albums (OCC)[160] 45
US Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[161] 1
Chart (2010–19) Position
US Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[162] 37

Certifications Edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[163] Gold 20,000^
Australia (ARIA)[164] 3× Platinum 210,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[165] Platinum 30,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[166] 2× Platinum 200,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[167] 3× Platinum 60,000‡
France (SNEP)[168] Platinum 200,000*
Germany (BVMI)[169] Platinum 200,000‡
Ireland (IRMA)[170] 5× Platinum 75,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[29] Gold 100,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[171] Gold 50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[172] 3× Platinum 45,000^
Poland (ZPAV)[173] Platinum 20,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[174] Platinum 20,000^
Russia (NFPF)[175] Gold 10,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[176] Gold 20,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[28] 6× Platinum 1,943,725[177]
United States (RIAA)[27] 2× Platinum 2,200,000[178]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[179] 2× Platinum 2,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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Demon Days is the second studio album by the British virtual band Gorillaz It was released on 11 May 2005 in Japan and 23 May 2005 in the United Kingdom by Parlophone and in the United States by Virgin Records Produced by Gorillaz Danger Mouse Jason Cox and James Dring it features De La Soul Neneh Cherry Martina Topley Bird Roots Manuva MF Doom Ike Turner Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde Shaun Ryder and Dennis Hopper Demon DaysStudio album by GorillazReleased11 May 2005 2005 05 11 RecordedMar 3rd Nov 28th 2004StudioStudio 13 LondonGenreAlternative rock hip hop trip hop pop art rockLength51 42LabelParlophone VirginProducerGorillaz Danger Mouse Jason Cox James DringGorillaz album chronologyLaika Come Home 2002 Demon Days 2005 D Sides 2007 Damon Albarn chronologyDemocrazy 2003 Demon Days 2005 The Good the Bad amp the Queen 2007 Singles from Demon Days Feel Good Inc Released 9 May 2005 Dare Released 29 August 2005 Dirty Harry Released 21 November 2005 Kids with Guns El Manana Released 10 April 2006As with the band s eponymous 2001 debut Demon Days and its performances were accompanied by various multimedia including interactive features on the Gorillaz website animated music videos and animatics The visuals were designed by the Gorillaz co creator Jamie Hewlett under his design company Zombie Flesh Eaters Demon Days reached the top 10 in 22 countries It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and number 6 on the US Billboard 200 1 2 3 and was later certified six times platinum in the UK and double platinum in the US Outperforming their debut the album has sold eight million copies worldwide 4 5 The album spawned the singles Feel Good Inc Dare Dirty Harry Kids with Guns and El Manana Spin ranked Demon Days the fourth best album of 2005 while Mojo ranked it at number eighteen on their year end list and hailed the album as a genre busting contemporary pop milestone The NME placed the album at number 98 on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade 6 and Uncut placed it at number 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade 7 Complex included it on their list of 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade placing it at number 43 8 and Spin later included it in their list of The 300 Best Albums of 1985 2014 9 In 2020 the album was included at the 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list of Stacker being ranked at 25 10 Contents 1 Background 2 Recording 3 Musical style and themes 4 Release and marketing 4 1 Reject False Icons 4 2 Search for a Star 5 Reception 5 1 Accolades 6 Legacy 7 Track listing 8 Personnel 8 1 Musicians 8 2 Technical 8 3 Artwork 9 Singles 10 Charts 10 1 Weekly charts 10 2 Year end charts 10 3 Decade end charts 11 Certifications 12 References 13 External linksBackground EditWhile Jamie Hewlett was working with his team on a script for a possible Gorillaz movie Damon Albarn was still recording Think Tank with Blur By the time Albarn was ready to start writing and recording material for the Gorillaz movie the whole idea had already been scrapped although ideas from the movie s script were still used including the themes of being driven by ego and the world being trapped in an endless night Despite this the album s main source of inspiration actually came about as a result of Albarn s train journey from Beijing to Mongolia where he his partner and six year old daughter spent a day travelling through what Albarn describes as a weird unspoken forgotten part of China It was basically dead trees as far as the eye can see Albarn recalls Dust bowls loose earth rapidly turning into desert There are little satellite towns in the middle of these semi deserts that are absolutely on their knees And it s the size of Europe this area And then you wake up in the morning with this nightmare in your head and it s blue sky and beautiful sand which looks fantastic now but was probably something else millions of years ago And that will happen to us in our lifetime 11 12 13 Gorillaz make dark pop that s what they always set out to achieve Albarn said in an interview with MTV News The whole album kind of tells the story of the night staying up during the night but it s also an allegory It s what we re living in basically the world in a state of night 14 Hewlett was excited by the prospect of a second Gorillaz album saying Let s repeat the same process but do it better Because everyone thought it was a gimmick If you do it again it s no longer a gimmick and if it works then we ve proved a point And instantly all of us got excited 12 Recording Edit nbsp The album was produced by Danger Mouse The most obvious difference on the band s second offering is the absence of Dan the Automator Nakamura as the acting musical producer Instead Albarn reached out to Danger Mouse based on the strength of The Grey Album which brought Danger Mouse to prominence for mixing the Beatles The White Album and Jay Z s The Black Album Dan the Automator wasn t busy the project just needed a slightly different approach Albarn explained Danger Mouse in my opinion is one of the best young producers in the world I think the last record was a lot more simplistic It was virgin territory animated hip hop reggae stroke rock Latin rock there s a lot more intricacy with this record Danger Mouse was join the project on April 7th 2004 Danger Mouse was a longtime fan of Albarn s other band Blur the feelings of admiration and respect were mutual It was a no brainer when there was interest there from Damon Burton said I heard demos of the new record but the biggest part was getting the chance to be a part of something that s so strong you just gotta jump on it I had a very up and down year in 2004 but it was definitely a big up when I got a chance to work with Gorillaz 14 I learned so much working on the record with Damon claimed Danger Mouse and it was sink or swim You just pick it up At the end of the day the people you re working with whether it s the choir or string section or guitarist are specialized in what they do All you have to do is figure out the best thing they re doing and how it s going to fit within the context of the whole project That goes back to putting together a song on a computer based program You re looking for all the parts that are going to make something sound right It s also being able to communicate I had done stuff before Gorillaz like the Pelican City stuff where I worked with musicians so it wasn t completely foreign to me 15 nbsp De La Soul collaborated on the most successful Gorillaz song Feel Good Inc As on Gorillaz there are plenty of guest collaborators including rappers De La Soul Bootie Brown from the Pharcyde and MF Doom along with Ike Turner on keyboards the singer Shaun Ryder from Happy Mondays and the actor and director Dennis Hopper who narrates a parable Fire Coming Out of the Monkey s Head about innocence greed and retribution set to a droll reggae bounce That song leads into a stretch of ethereal vocal harmonies in a clear homage to the Beach Boys Albarn said he couldn t make the vocal parts sound right until he had a minor revelation If you ve ever seen the Beach Boys in footage they re all smiling desperately keeping the upbeat Beach Boy thing alive while Brian Wilson is just absolutely glum as hell So I did three harmonies smiling with my face And then one just being really miserable which was Brian Now it s got that vibe 16 Kids with Guns was inspired by a boy in Albarn s daughter s class who turned up to school with a knife A nice boy said Albarn just decided to pick up a knife and show it to his friends at lunchtime It s a very real problem but I m not treating it as a problem It s part of the brutalisation of a generation that s going on at the moment Fire Coming Out of the Monkey s Head meanwhile is a parable read by Dennis Hopper that seems to have clear parallels with the war for oil Regarding the song Dare and the collaboration with Shaun Ryder Albarn also said I love Shaun Ryder During the whole Oasis thing he and Bernard Sumner were the only two who cared about what I was going through Being constantly taken the piss out of by Noel amp Liam Gallagher How can you fight when you ve got the tabloids and a working class attitude on your back You re fucked But Shaun was really sweet to me and made me feel a whole lot better about it Because I did get quite upset about it so was selecting Shaun karma in action then Yeah definitely The song s title is purported to have come about due to Ryder s thick Mancunian accent he was unable to say the phrase It s There which was the song s original title so it was changed simply to Dare 17 Roses Gabor takes over the role of Noodle from Miho Hatori who provided the vocals for her on the first album Albarn provides backing vocals however to blend his vocals with Gabor s his voice was toned down to be slightly covered up Albarn s full vocalization can be heard on the D Sides remix album D Sides features a demo version of Dare entitled People This version contains the same background beat while lacking the majority of the keyboards and effects in the final recording Unlike the final version it is completely sung by Albarn and features an Omnichord breakdown Rapper Roots Manuva and Martina Topley Bird appear on the track All Alone the instrumental of which was partially recorded in Africa and also recorded another track entitled Snakes and Ladders The track does not appear on the album or D Sides however the track was sampled by Topley Bird for her song Soldier Boy which appears as a B side for her song Poison which features Roots Manuva and features a production credit for Gorillaz The track can be heard partially on the Gorillaz documentary film Bananaz 18 and is also sampled on the track Intro citation needed Musical style and themes EditSputnikmusic wrote that the album s style is a strong foray into the melding of hip hop into pop and rock music 19 Odyssey said that the album was apocalyptic dark pop at its finest strangest and most topical 20 Vice called the album a British pop masterpiece and wrote that its music flits between UK rap alternative rock piano pop trip hop reggae and Beach Boys psychedelia 21 The Unapologists called the album both a typical post 9 11 political statement and mid 2000s alt rock masterpiece 22 Spin described the album as a slinky folk disco hip hop Afro pop punk expedition 23 Robert Christgau labelled the album pop trip hop 24 while Happy Mag listed it as a key work in the art rock style 25 Demon Days prominently makes use of string sections which were organized under the lead of Isabelle Dunn who formed Demon Strings for the album and its later live performances Choirs are also incorporated including the San Fernandez Youth Chorus on Dirty Harry and the London Community Gospel Choir on the album s final two tracks Don t Get Lost in Heaven and Demon Days Albarn has said that the album is meant to be a depiction of a journey through the night in which each track represents a confrontation with a personal demon The album also has many lyrical themes centered on the destruction humans are causing worldwide speaking about the track Fire Coming Out of the Monkey s Head Albarn explained That came from a very naive idea which is what is going to happen when they ve taken all of the oil out of the earth Aren t there going to be these vast holes Surely those holes shouldn t be empty Surely there is a reason why they had all of this in It s like bad plastic surgery eventually it collapses 11 Mike Schiller of PopMatters wrote that Demon Days provides its listeners not with a story arc but a music arc which starts off slow and honestly not all that strange describing the first few tracks as sounding a bit like the Casioed version of a mid 90s trip hop album 26 The album s opener Intro contains a sample from Dark Earth from the soundtrack to the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead Release and marketing EditDemon Days was first mentioned in articles detailing the reopening of Gorillaz website in early December 2004 Initially a March or April 2005 release date was announced but this date was later pushed back In an article for Q in February 2005 it was reported that the album was to be titled We Are Happy Landfill Another early title was reported to be Reject False Icons which is also the title of Gorillaz culture jamming project In January 2005 a promo for the song Dirty Harry was released as a white label 12 and an exclusive video was released online entitled Rock It It was later reported that the track would not appear on the album although it later appeared on D Sides a collection of remixes rare songs and B sides released in November 2007 Demon Days lead single Feel Good Inc became Gorillaz biggest hit at the time while the album s second single Dare featuring Shaun Ryder was a big hit as well and gave the band their first number one single in the UK Since its release Demon Days has been certified double platinum in the US 27 and 6 platinum in the UK 28 It was also certified Gold in Japan 29 The limited edition of the album includes a DVD containing the video audio commentary and an animatic for the music video Feel Good Inc short animated films featuring the band an exclusive audio track titled The Swagga and online access to exclusive sections of the band s website with various wallpapers and screensavers 30 as well as a crowbar facilitating the opening of a locked cupboard in the kitchen on Gorillaz com in order to download the song Happy Landfill This content is no longer available however the track appears on D Sides re titled We Are Happy Landfill Reject False Icons Edit The phrase Reject False Icons was first mentioned on 24 November 2004 on a Gorillaz mail out to fans 31 On 8 December the Gorillaz website was re opened with a brand new music video Rockit which has the saying Reject False Icons at the end 32 On 19 December the Reject False Icons campaign kicked off with the launch of rejectfalseicons com Fans could submit their photos of ways to spread the message by using graffiti or by sticking Reject False Icons stickers that were available for a limited period from the site and from selected record shops in the UK Search for a Star Edit In December 2004 Gorillaz launched their own talent contest Search for a Star to find an artist to collaborate with 33 There were on average over 100 entries per week whittled down to around 10 to be put forward for the public vote The 200 entries were viewed over a million times A gallery room was added to Kong Studios which displayed all of the entries Gorillaz competition was initially run to pick just one winner from entries submitted to Gorillaz com However at the end of the competition it was announced that two further entries one from the submitted images and one from the submitted audio files would be chosen by online vote All three collaborated on the fourth single release of Phase Two Kids with Guns El Manana Sourbee provided his animated incarnation of the Don t Get Lost in Heaven Original Demo Version B side featured on the DVD version of the single Asidus made a Dirty Harry remix called Uno Quatro featured on the Gorillaz website Irina Bolshakova aka Schneeflocke created her own artistic interpretation of El Manana featured on an insert included on the DVD version of the single The winners were also originally supposed to have their own rooms in Kong Studios but that never came to pass citation needed Reception EditProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic82 100 34 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 35 Entertainment WeeklyB 36 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 37 Los Angeles Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 38 Mojo nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 39 NME8 10 40 Pitchfork6 9 10 41 Q nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 42 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 43 SpinB 44 At Metacritic which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics Demon Days received an average score of 82 indicating universal acclaim 34 AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that Demon Days is unified and purposeful in a way Albarn s music hasn t been since The Great Escape and stands alongside the best Blur albums providing a tonal touchstone for this decade the way Parklife did for the 90s 35 Paul Mardles of The Observer felt that compared to Gorillaz the songs on Demon Days were more fully realised and pregnant with ideas and that the album may prove to be Albarn s masterwork 45 Writing in Entertainment Weekly David Browne called it spookier blippier and more on edge 36 Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn stated that Albarn s evocative words compelling if understated melodic sense and subdued vocals are at the emotional center of Demon Days transcending the gimmick even more than on the first Gorillaz album 38 Rob Mitchum of Pitchfork felt that while Demon Days was uneven Albarn s experiments fit together just often enough to again make Gorillaz more than mere Adult Swim novelty 41 In a mixed assessment Alex Mar of Rolling Stone described Demon Days as hit or miss and felt that Albarn s phoned in and incredibly flat vocals weighed the record down 43 In contrast Uncut stated that the album featured great beats brilliant production top tunes and some of Albarn s best singing 46 Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave Demon Days a three star honourable mention indicating an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure and selected All Alone and Dare as highlights 24 47 Accolades Edit Feel Good Inc the lead single from Demon Days won the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals accolade at the 48th Grammy Awards 48 The album was nominated for British Album of the Year at the 2006 Brit Awards but lost to Coldplay s X amp Y 49 Demon Days won the accolade for Best International Album at 2006 Danish Music Awards 50 and made the band win the accolade for Best Group at 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards 51 Demon Days was voted the 21st best album of the year in The Village Voice s annual Pazz amp Jop critics poll for 2005 52 The album was chosen as the tenth best album of 2005 by NME 53 and the 2nd one for Q magazine 54 Glide Magazine listed the album on its Best Albums of the Decade ranking it at 46 55 Spin ranked Demon Days as the fourth best album of 2005 56 while Mojo ranked it at number eighteen on their year end list 57 and hailed the album as a genre busting contemporary pop milestone NME placed it 98th on their list of 100 greatest albums of the decade 6 Uncut ranked it at 75 on their list of top 150 albums of the decade 7 Complex included it on their list of 100 Best Albums of the Complex Decade placing it at number 43 8 The Guardian listed the album on its Top 50 Albums of the decade ranking it at 11 58 Spin later included it in their list of The 300 Best Albums of 1985 2014 9 In 2016 Q ranked Demon Days as one of The Greatest Albums of the Last 30 Years 59 In 2020 the album was included at the 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list of Stacker being ranked at 27 60 Legacy EditDespite its only modestly positive reception at release Demon Days is now considered to have left an indelible mark on alternative music and has since been variously hailed as iconic 61 classic 62 timeless 63 and a modern masterpiece 64 Multiple writers have noted how Demon Days commentary was prescient for outlining social and environmental issues in the following years of the 21st century In an eleventh anniversary retrospective Angus Harrison wrote for Noisey UK that while at the time the record was perceived as corny ranty and hysterical and even pretentious twaddle it is now viewed as scarily prescient and a thrilling allegory set on the precipice of an increasingly dark stretch of modern history 65 In Vinyl Me Please s Liner Notes series Kyle Kramer called the tormented large scale questions of the album more relevant than ever whether in 2017 or much further down the line 66 John of audiosnobbery pens that this doomsday scenario was simply viewed as a self indulgent and pretentious move from Albarn but 14 years later the messages and problems explored in Demon Days are more pertinent than ever overpopulation false gods guns violence depression corruption and greed The world is not better than it was and this is precisely why listening to Demon Days today is even more interesting than in 2005 these are the true Demon Days 67 Hatim Hafid of River Beats Dance describes that Demon Days acts as a direct societal critique on colonialism and invasion It highlights the negative practices used to exploit countries in the name of democracy and peace and Demon Days remains as one of the most politically charged pieces of the era 63 Tim Karan of Diffuser has called Demon Days as one of the most innovative albums of the 21st century He also classified the album as dense and atmospheric 68 Sean Craig from Mixed Frequencies said that Demon Days is as dense as a 50 minute album can be packed with hit after hit feature after feature and changes in musical style so fast that it can give you whiplash if you re not prepared for it It s a dark apocalyptic album that brims with energy and funk a pop music oxymoron in every fiber of its being It s an idiosyncrasy made manifest something that uses sounds from every possible corner of the musical world and blends them together in turn sounding almost entirely its own 69 Artists including Kali Uchis 70 ASAP Rocky 71 and Trippie Redd 72 have suggested Demon Days specifically as an influence on their work among many others who have cited the project as a whole with the latter saying it provides him with inspiration to create timeless work Mura Masa commented how Demon Days has influenced him to invite Damon Albarn to work in his track Blu Demon Days was the first album I bought so getting to meet up and actually work with him was crazy 73 The music videos for singles from Demon Days Feel Good Inc Dare and El Manana have amassed millions of views on YouTube in 2011 Rolling Stone clocked Feel Good Inc as the 99th best song of the 2000s 74 In 2020 the song Dirty Harry trended on video sharing platform TikTok featured by users conceptualizing themselves as cartoon characters referencing Gorillaz virtual nature 75 Track listing EditDemon Days Standard editionNo TitleWriter s Length1 Intro Damon AlbarnJamie HewlettDon Harper1 032 Last Living Souls AlbarnHewlett3 103 Kids with Guns AlbarnHewlettBrian Burton3 464 O Green World AlbarnHewlettBurton4 325 Dirty Harry featuring Bootie Brown AlbarnHewlettBurtonRomye Robinson3 446 Feel Good Inc featuring De La Soul AlbarnHewlettBurtonDavid Jolicoeur3 417 El Manana AlbarnHewlettBurton3 508 Every Planet We Reach Is Dead AlbarnHewlett4 539 November Has Come featuring MF Doom AlbarnHewlettDaniel Dumile2 4110 All Alone featuring Roots Manuva AlbarnHewlettBurtonRodney SmithSimon Tong3 3011 White Light AlbarnHewlett2 0812 Dare featuring Shaun Ryder AlbarnHewlettBurtonRyder4 0413 Fire Coming out of the Monkey s Head AlbarnHewlett3 1614 Don t Get Lost in Heaven AlbarnHewlett2 0015 Demon Days AlbarnHewlett4 29Total length 50 47Personnel EditCredits adapted from the liner notes of Demon Days 76 Musicians Edit Damon Albarn lead vocals keyboards acoustic guitar synthesizers melodica Danger Mouse percussion drum programming sampled loops Jason Cox drums drum programming James Dring drums drum programming Cass Browne drums Simon Tong additional guitar tracks 2 4 6 7 10 Sally Jackson violin tracks 2 5 7 8 10 15 Stella Page viola tracks 2 5 7 8 10 15 Amanda Drummond viola tracks 2 5 7 8 10 15 Isabelle Dunn cello tracks 2 5 7 8 10 15 Al Mobbs double bass tracks 2 5 7 8 10 15 Emma Smith double bass tracks 2 5 7 8 10 15 Prabjote Osahn violin tracks 2 5 8 10 15 Neneh Cherry additional vocals track 3 Bootie Brown vocals track 5 The San Fernandez Youth Chorus choir track 5 De La Soul vocals track 6 Antonia Pagulatos violin track 7 Ike Turner piano track 8 MF Doom vocals track 9 Roots Manuva vocals track 10 Martina Topley Bird vocals track 10 Shaun Ryder vocals track 12 Rosie Wilson vocals track 12 Dennis Hopper vocals track 13 London Community Gospel Choir choir tracks 14 15 Technical Edit Damon Albarn production Brian Burton mixing production Jason Cox engineering mixing production James Dring production Steve Sedgwick mixing assistance Howie Weinberg masteringArtwork Edit J C Hewlett artwork design Zombie Flesh Eaters artwork designSingles Edit Feel Good Inc was the first single released from the album It was released as a single in the UK and Australia on 9 May 2005 and charted at number two in the UK 77 number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 78 and number one on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks 79 Dare was the second single released from the album It was released on 29 August 2005 in the UK The single charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart 77 number eight on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 79 and number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 78 Dirty Harry was the third single released from the album It was released on 21 November 2005 in the UK and charted at number six on the UK Singles Chart 77 Kids with Guns El Manana was the fourth and final single released from the album It was released on 10 April 2006 in the UK The winners for the Search for a Star competition collaborated with Gorillaz in various ways on the single The single charted at number 27 on the UK Singles Chart 77 Charts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 2005 06 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 80 2Australian Hip Hop R amp B Albums ARIA 81 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 82 3Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 83 4Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 84 2Canadian Albums Billboard 85 5Danish Albums Hitlisten 86 3Dutch Albums Album Top 100 87 15European Albums Billboard 88 1Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 89 10French Albums SNEP 90 1German Albums Offizielle Top 100 91 2Greek Albums IFPI 92 1Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 93 23Icelandic Albums Tonlist 94 5Irish Albums IRMA 95 2Italian Albums FIMI 96 5Japanese Albums Oricon 97 7Mexican Albums Top 100 Mexico 98 4New Zealand Albums RMNZ 99 3Norwegian Albums VG lista 100 7Polish Albums ZPAV 101 13Portuguese Albums AFP 102 5Scottish Albums OCC 103 1Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 104 22Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 105 25Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 106 1UK Albums OCC 107 1US Billboard 200 108 6US Top Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 109 1US Top Rock Albums Billboard 110 6Chart 2017 PeakpositionUS Top Alternative Albums Billboard 111 7US Top Catalog Albums Billboard 112 12Chart 2018 PeakpositionUS Top Tastemaker Albums Billboard 113 7US Vinyl Albums Billboard 114 5Chart 2021 PeakpositionCroatian International Albums HDU 115 37 Year end charts Edit Chart 2005 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 116 14Australian Hip Hop R amp B Albums ARIA 117 2Austrian Albums O3 Austria 118 21Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 119 39Belgian Alternative Albums Ultratop Flanders 120 29Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 121 31Danish Albums Hitlisten 122 26Dutch Albums Album Top 100 123 93European Albums Billboard 124 11French Albums SNEP 125 42German Albums Offizielle Top 100 126 28Irish Albums IRMA 127 13Italian Albums FIMI 128 51Mexican Albums Top 100 Mexico 98 64New Zealand Albums RMNZ 129 11Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 130 31UK Albums OCC 131 5US Billboard 200 132 41US Electronic Albums Billboard 133 1Worldwide Albums IFPI 134 11Chart 2006 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 135 46Australian Hip Hop R amp B Albums ARIA 136 3Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 137 94European Albums Billboard 138 50French Albums SNEP 139 106UK Albums OCC 140 42US Billboard 200 141 67US Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 142 3Chart 2007 PositionAustralian Hip Hop R amp B Albums ARIA 143 26Belgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Flanders 144 36Belgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Wallonia 145 34US Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 146 11Chart 2010 PositionAustralian Hip Hop R amp B Albums ARIA 147 30Chart 2016 PositionAustralian Hip Hop R amp B Albums ARIA 148 70Chart 2017 PositionAustralian Hip Hop R amp B Albums ARIA 149 86Mexican Albums Top 100 Mexico 150 86US Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 151 7Chart 2018 PositionMexican Albums Top 100 Mexico 152 66US Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 153 7Chart 2019 PositionMexican Albums Top 100 Mexico 154 96US Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 155 13Chart 2020 PositionUS Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 156 13Chart 2021 PositionUS Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 157 4Chart 2022 PositionUS Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 158 3 Decade end charts Edit Chart 2000 09 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 159 90UK Albums OCC 160 45US Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 161 1Chart 2010 19 PositionUS Dance Electronic Albums Billboard 162 37Certifications EditRegion Certification Certified units salesArgentina CAPIF 163 Gold 20 000 Australia ARIA 164 3 Platinum 210 000 Austria IFPI Austria 165 Platinum 30 000 Canada Music Canada 166 2 Platinum 200 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 167 3 Platinum 60 000 France SNEP 168 Platinum 200 000 Germany BVMI 169 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