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Dummy (album)

Dummy
Studio album by
Portishead
Released22 August 1994
Recorded1993–1994[1]
StudioState of Art and Coach House Studios, Bristol[1]
GenreTrip hop[2]
Length49:21
Label
Producer
Portishead chronology
Dummy
(1994) 		Glory Times
(1995)
Singles from Dummy
  1. "Numb"
    Released: 13 June 1994
  2. "Sour Times"
    Released: 1 August 1994
  3. "Glory Box"
    Released: 3 January 1995

Dummy is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Portishead, released on 22 August 1994 by Go! Beat Records.[3]

The album received critical acclaim and won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularising the trip hop genre, and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Dummy was certified triple platinum in the UK in February 2019,[4] and had sold 920,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2020.[5] Worldwide, the album had sold 3.6 million copies by 2008.[6]

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  3. ^ "Album Releases". Music Week. 20 August 1994. p. 26.
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  5. ^ Copsey, Rob (22 September 2020). "Mercury Prize: The best-selling winning albums". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  6. ^ McLean, Craig (12 April 2008). "Portishead: back on the beat". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 May 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

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