Issues (Korn album)
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| Studio album by KoЯn | ||||
| Released | November 16, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | July–September 1999 | |||
| Studio | A&M Studios, West Hollywood, California and Atlanta, Georgia, United States | |||
| Genre | Nu metal,alternative metal | |||
| Length | 53:16 | |||
| Label | Immortal, Epic | |||
| Producer | Brendan O'Brien | |||
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| AllMusic |    |
| Billboard | favorable |
| Robert Christgau |  |
| Entertainment Weekly | C |
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| New York Daily News | favorable |
| The New York Times | mixed |
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| Released | November 6, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 2000-2001 | |||
| Genre | Nu metal, alternative metal | |||
| Length | 21:38 | |||
| Label | Immortal/Epic | |||
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Issues is the fourth studio album by American nu metal band Korn, released on November 16, 1999 through Immortal Records. Since its release, the album has sold over 13 million copies worldwide. The album was promoted throughout 2000 by the band's highly successful Sick and Twisted Tour.
During one of the band's recording sessions, journalist Chris Connelly asked about how the recording was coming along, to which drummer David Silveria responded that it "Sounds like the music is a little more simplified and heavier. Kind of heavier grooves, more than the last couple. So kind of more similar to the beginning, except Jon is a much better singer now, so it's all coming together."
In October 1999, Korn posted "Falling Away from Me" on their website as a free MP3 download, although it was against the advice of its attorneys. A statement on the band's site relates: "We're so psyched about [the new album] that we wanted to give all you guys, the true Korn fans — a gift from us." Also at this time, the band attempted to start an online chain email, by posting the letter online and asking fans to email the letter to 10 other people and to then sign the "I Downloaded the Korn Single For Free" guestbook on the band's site. For each person who signed, Korn donated 25 cents to the charities Childhelp USA and Children Of The Night. It raised over $250,000.
The album featured four different covers each designed by Korn fans as part of an MTV contest (the winning cover was designed by Alfredo Carlos; another album cover for special limited edition of the album features a cartoonish half-caricature for the band). There was also a fifth cover selected for the limited tour edition of the album.
Issues sold almost 575,000 copies in its first six days of being released and went to number 1 on the Billboard 200, preventing both Dr. Dre's 2001 and Celine Dion's All the Way... A Decade of Song from going to number 1. To celebrate the release of Issues, Korn performed the entire album in the exact order it was on the album at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater. On December 22, 1999, one month after the album's release date, Issues was certified 3x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). According to Nielsen Soundscan, Issues sold at least 3,047,076 copies in the United States. On Billboard's year-end chart for the year 2000, Issues was at number 19.
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