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Black Market Music by Placebo
Black Market Music is an album by Placebo, released in 2000. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Special K”, on 2 lists with a best position of #28.
Black Market Music, Placebo's third album, arrived in 2000 after nine months of sessions stretching from late 1999 into the middle of the year, the longest the band would spend on a record until 2022's Never Let Me Go. Paul Corkett produced it at Olympic Studios, with Brian Molko on vocals and guitar, Stefan Olsdal on bass and guitar, and Steve Hewitt on drums.
Coming off the breakthrough of Without You I'm Nothing, the trio sound both harder and darker here: Molko's nasal, androgynous whine curls around grinding guitars and cold electronic edges. Four singles came off it, "Taste in Men", "Slave to the Wage", "Special K" and "Black-Eyed". Critics were mostly warm, it reached number six in the UK, and in France it went double gold.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Black Market Music on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Special K | 2 | #28 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | Slave To The Wage | 2 | #47 | – | 2000–2002 | |
| 3 | Taste In Men | 1 | #39 | – | 2000 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.