Is Issues a good album?
The best album credited to Issues is Headspace which is ranked number 18,210 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 56. Issues is ranked number 8,612 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 68.
How many copies did Issues Korn sell?
3,047,076 copies
On December 22, 1999, a month after the album’s release date, Issues was certified 3× 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.
Who drew the Korn issues cover?
Alfredo Carlos
The album’s intriguing cover was designed by Alfredo Carlos as part of MTV’s cover art contest. Korn were looking for “abstract” designs or images of the band. View the top four selections below.
Who won the Korn cover contest?
The band held a cover art contest — and gave the winner $10,000. Plenty of folks remember Korn’s search for the best fan-made artwork out there for the cover of Issues, eventually leading to a TRL on-air party where they announced Alfredo Carlos as the victor for his tattered-rag-doll design.
Why do people like Korn issues so much?
It’s mood music — songs don’t matter, but the foreboding feeling and gloomy sounds do. To a certain extent, this has always been true of Korn albums, but it’s particularly striking on Issues because they pull off a nifty trick of stripping their sound back to its bare essentials and expanding and rebuilding from that.
Is Korn’s issues the Best Album of their career?
Notoriously divisive and lukewarmly received by the their fanbase at the time, Korn’s fourth album Issues might not feel like too much of a milestone in a career that has seen the band hit some highs that 99% of musicians will never experience, but looking back on it two decades later reveals plenty to admire.
How did Korn become so popular?
Three albums later, and Korn have hit it big time – sell out tours, highly rated albums and reoccurring successions in sales, Korn have embarked themselves as one of the most popular bands of the 90�s. So with their fourth album, Issues, they had a lot of hype to live up to, and expectations were increasingly high.