Chart Success Quotes

I think what's more important to The Prodigy is that, whatever number your album goes in at, or the single, or however many plays it gets, or doesn't get, or awards you get, or don't get; our reward, as a band, is to write the best album we can and then go to Download festival and rip it to pieces.

We were the ones that from the beginning said that 'Wide Open Spaces' was a hit. 'This is a hit, people are going to relate to it.'

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

I did 'We Can't Stop' for Rihanna, but it never worked. Every time I would play 'We Can't Stop' I was like 'this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.'' I was like OK if I keep saying this is the new 'Party in the U.S.A.,' why don't I go to the girl who did 'Party in the U.S.A.?'

I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of people I respect have done it with a real little 'ditty' and that was the end of it - that was all they were ever known for.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

I've been working at this for a while now, so seeing the success of 'Sweet but Psycho' is kind of mind-blowing, but it's exciting.

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.

Apparently I was a Billboard top touring act of 1973, but nobody told me.

The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'

Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?

I really want to make a great record, like my 'Rumours' or 'Thriller.'

The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it would find its way onto the charts, even at home and certainly not in America.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

The success of the first album was almost an anomaly, and it could remain a fantastic anomaly. It was not crafted for commercial success. I remember meetings with my label saying it had no radio singles. For me, the second album was a gesture of independence.

And for it to make the statement the way that it did, for 'Controlled Chaos' to debut in the Top 10 of the iTunes rock chart... We debuted behind Queen and Chris Cornell, so it's not like we were just hidden away in the back of the instrumental metal category.

There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.

I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.