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1993 Singles & B-Sides

204.4M streams

204,395,291

1998 Singles & B-Sides

107M streams

106,977,853

Pleased To Meet You

76.1M streams

76,075,888

James: The Best Of

49.5M streams

49,528,064

Laid (Deluxe Edition)

47.6M streams

47,563,449

1997 Singles & B-Sides

39.1M streams

39,121,093

Girl at the End of the World

14.3M streams

14,276,538

1990 Singles & B-Sides

11.8M streams

11,807,408

All The Colours Of You

10.6M streams

10,558,931

1999 Singles & B-Sides

10.1M streams

10,147,682

Biography

With over 25 million albums sold over a longstanding career, James are amongst the most commercially and artistically successful alternative rock bands of their era. Having gathered a cult following around art rock gallops like ‘Johnny Yen’ in the 80s, they broke through to mainstream success with their major label debut Gold Mother (1990) followed with a slew of euphoric anthems: Come Home, Sit Down and Laid. Their fifth album Laid saw them break the US charts, while Whiplash (1997), Millionaires (1999) and Pleased To Meet You (2001) cemented their standing as a classic 1990s act with Tomorrow, She's A Star and Just Like Fred Astaire. James returned from a 6-year hiatus with 2008’s Hey Ma (eDeluxe), followed by Girl at the End of the World (2016), Living in Extraordinary Times (2018) and All The Colours Of You (2021) - returning to a sustained period in the upper echelons of the album chart. Their 40th anniversary in 2023 was celebrated with orchestral reworkings via Be Opened By The Wonderful – but this was far from a full stop. James released their 18th album Yummy on 12 April 2024 which reached #1 in the UK Albums Chart, their first studio album to do so. One of their most prescient releases, Yummy deals with politics, AI and conspiracy theories, and documents the creative process of a band who continues to evolve and defy expectations. Best described by MOJO: "after 18 LPs and over four interrupted decades at the coalface, James are still re-inventing themselves”.