Songoftheday 4/21/20 - To all those people doing lines don't do it, inject your soul with liberty it's free...
from the album To The Faithful Departed (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: Ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #21 (one week)
Weeks in the Hot 100 Airplay Top-40: 10
Today's song of the day comes from the Irish alternative rock band the Cranberries, who had landed a pair of top-40 pop radio hits in America from their sophomore effort No Need To Argue with "Zombie" and "Ode To My Family". In 1996, the group returned with their third release, To The Faithful Departed, dedicated to lead singer Delores O'Riordan's grandfather Joe who passed that year. The lead single from the set was the fast-paced and percussive "Salvation", a song that hinted on the perils of drug addiction...
Since "Salvation" wasn't released as a proper single in America, it was unable to place on Billboard magazine's official Hot 100 pop chart. However, the track got enough mainstream radio love to climb to almost the top 20 on the airplay component of the list. Meanwhile the song was huge at rock radio, spending a month (four weeks) at #1 on the Alternative Rock chart, and making it to #25 on the Mainstream Rock format tally. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Iceland (#4), Italy (#6), New Zealand (#7), Ireland (#8), and Australia (#8). It also got into the top-40 in the UK (#13), France (#13), Finland (#15), Belgium (#18W/#32F), Austria (#27), Canada (#30), Sweden (#33), Switzerland (#35), and the Netherlands (#36).
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Here's the band on British TV in 1996...
And later that year at the MTV Video Music Awards...
Next up, in concert in Paris in 1999...
Fast forward to 2011 at the Java Rock'n Land...
Up tomorrow: Trance newcomer's instrumental club hit is big with the kiddies.
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