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MUSICAL HISTORY ''In Search Of...''
''In Search Of...'' achieved moderate success in the ; its first single, "Lapdance", reached the top 40 on the Modern Rap charts; and its second single, "Rock Star", reached the top 40 of the Modern Rock charts in the US. "Lapdance" also went top 40 in the Netherlands and its music video received heavy airplay on American MTV2 . The album was well-received by critics even though it was not as successful as many of the Neptunes' previous productions. The album won the second annual Shortlist Music Prize, awarded (by a group of musicians, journalists, and other music professionals) to the best album of the year which had sold less than 500,000 copies at the time of nomination. The band performed at the show, bragging that the week prior to the ceremony, the album had, in fact, achieved gold status by selling over 500,000 units. A 6.1 surround mix of this album was released by DTS Entertainment on a DVD-Audio disk in 2005 under catalog number 7243 8 11521 9 5. ''Fly or Die'' The band recorded its second album ''Fly Or Die'' during 2003 . The band actually learned to play the tunes live, as Chad Hugo told MTV News on December 9, 2003: "We're the ones playing the instruments live this time. "I just started playing guitar last year so I'm learning as we go. Pharrell's playing drums. time we didn't have time to learn certain instruments so we got Spymob to help us out." The band also recruited some assistance to record the album with Lenny Kravitz playing on the track "Maybe" (which has been featured in ads for XM Satellite Radio ) and Joel and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte playing on the track "Jump". Several of the tracks discuss issues of particular concern to adolescents, for example "Thrasher", which is about Bullies ; "Drill Sergeant", about rebellion; and "Backseat Love", which talks about first love. ''Fly or Die'' went on sale on March 22 , 2004 . The album has so far gone Top 10 in the USA, while the lead-off single, "She Wants to Move", has gone top 5 in the UK , top 20 in Norway , Ireland , and Denmark , and top 40 in Australia and the Netherlands . The music videos for "She Wants To Move" and its followup single, "Maybe", have received strong support from the digital cable network VH1 Soul in America. Future In March 2005, Williams told BBC Radio 1 that he was unhappy with the band's direction under management at Virgin Records and therefore the group had "expired". N.E.R.D. Call It Quits He later issued a statement through the group's manager retracting his previous comments saying the band had not broken up. Pharrell Says N.E.R.D. Lives
On July 1, 2007 Williams and Haley were featured on the Concert For Diana , where they performed She Wants To Move . DISCOGRAPHY Albums
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