ALBUMS:
CD RELEASE DATES:
ISSUES: November 16, 1999
FOLLOW THE LEADER: August 18,
1998
LIFE IS PEACHY: October 15, 1996
KORN: October 11, 1994
HOME VIDEO RELEASE DATE:
WHO THEN NOW?: February 18, 1997
PLATINUM AWARDS
ISSUES - Triple Platinum
FOLLOW THE LEADER - Triple
Platinum
LIFE IS PEACHY - Double Platinum
KORN - Double Platinum
WHO THEN NOW? (home video) -
Platinum
AWARDS:
1999 MTV Video Music Awards (all for "Freak On A Leash"):
Wins:
Best Rock Video
Best Editing in a Video (Haines Hall/Michael Sachs)
Nominations:
Video of the Year
Breakthrough Video
Viewer’s Choice
Best Direction in a Video (Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris/Todd
McFarlane/Graham Morris)
Best Special Effects in a Video (Greg Strause/Colin Strause/Matt
Beck/Edson Williams)
Best Art Direction in a Video (K.K. Barrett/Todd McFarlane/Terry
Fitzgerald/Graham Morris)
Best Cinematography in a Video (Dir. of Photography: Julian Whatley)
1999 MuchMusic Video Awards (nominations):
Best International Video ("Freak On A Leash")
1999 Billboard Music Video Awards:
Best Clip of the Year/Hard Rock ("Freak On A Leash")
1999 CDDB Silicon CD Award (KORN received first ever of this award;
created by CDDB-Internet music company which offers software that
monitors what computer users are playing on their CD-ROM player and
automatically dials in to the Internet to retrieve information on
that music; also compiles a Top 100 list of the music being listened
to around the world; artists are eligible if their album stays in
CDDB’s Top 100 for 30 days)
YEAR-END POLLS (FOR ‘FOLLOW THE LEADER’
AND ‘ISSUES’):
1999 Circus Readers Poll
Best Band of the Millennium
1998 Alternative Press Readers’ Poll:
Best Artist
Best Album
Best Album Cover Art
Best Live Act
Best Radio Single ("Got The Life")
Best Album of the ‘90s (KORN)
#2 Best Concert Event ("The Family Values" tour)
#2 Best Video ("Got The Life") #3 Brightest Hope for 1999
1998 Rolling Stone Music Awards (picked by
writers and editors):
"Best Hard-Rock Band"
1998 Rolling Stone Readers’ Poll:
"Best Hard-Rock Band"
"Best Tour"
1998 Spin Readers’ Poll:
"Favorite Album"
1999 Hit Parader "Top 5s of 1999":
#1 Album
#1 Band
1998 Hit Parader "Readers’
Survey":
Favorite Band
Favorite Album: FOLLOW THE LEADER
1998 Guitar Magazine Readers’ Poll:
Best Album of 1998: FOLLOW THE LEADER
MISCELLANEOUS:
ISSUES debuted on Billboard’s "Top 200 Albums" chart at
#1, selling over 575,000 copies in its first week.
Rolling Stone/Best Alternative Albums of the ‘90s: "FOLLOW
THE LEADER/August 1998...Issued in a year when alternative rock was
pushing up the daisies, commercially and creatively, Korn put new
muscle into the old dog and channeled their disgust with the state
of the nation--and the generation doomed to inherit it--into
booming, articulate violence." (May 13, 1999)
FOLLOW THE LEADER debuted on Billboard’s "Top 200
Albums" chart at #1, having sold over 268,000 copies its first
week out.
FOLLOW THE LEADER debuted at the #1 slot in Canada, New Zealand and
Australia; #4 in Finland; #5 in France, the U.K. and Norway; #8 in
Japan; #10 in Holland; #12 in Germany; and it registered the highest
debut on the Pan European "Music & Media" chart (at
#6).
THE FAMILY VALUES CD and home video--both featuring KORN--are
released March 30, 1999.
THE FAMILY VALUES CD debuted on Billboard’s "Top 200
Albums" chart at #7 (selling over 122,000 its first week
out)--April 9 issue.
THE FAMILY VALUES CD was certified gold by the R.I.A.A. in June
1999. The video was certified platinum.
"Camel Song" (included on "End Of Days"
soundtrack, November 1999)
"Ty Jonathan Down" (KORN--Jonathan--on Videodrone’s
debut, Elementree/Reprise, February 1999)
"Should I Stay Or Should I Go" (KORN--Head, Munky,
Fieldy--with Ice Cube and Mack 10, on Mack 10’s THE RECIPE,
Priority Records 1998 and The Clash tribute album, Epic 1999)
"Revival" (KORN--Jonathan--on Orgy’s debut, CANDYASS,
Elementree/Reprise, August 18, 1998)
"Kick The P.A." (KORN with the Dust Bros.; included on
"Spawn" soundtrack, 1998)
"** Dyin’" (KORN--Munky, Head--with Ice Cube, on
Cube’s WAR & PEACE VOL. 1 (The War Disc), Priority Records
1998)
"Proud" (included on "I Know What You Did Last
Summer" soundtrack, Columbia Records, 1997)
"Sean Olson" (included on "The Crow: City of
Angels" soundtrack, Hollywood Records, 1996)
Orgy was the first band signed to KORN’s Elementree Records. The
album has been certified platinum.
FIELDY produced Videodrone’s 1999 self-titled debut on
Elementree/Reprise.
LIFE IS PEACHY debuted at #3 on Billboard’s "Top 200
Albums" chart having SoundScanned over 106,000 copies in its
first week of release.
KORN and LIFE IS PEACHY each earned Grammy nominations for
"Best Metal Performance": "Shoots & Ladders"
from KORN and "No Place To Hide" from LIFE IS PEACHY.
Lollapalooza: Performed 14 out of 27 dates; last date was July 20,
1997 in Columbus, Ohio due to MUNKY’s bout with Viral Meningitis.
"The Family Values" tour: The irreverently titled
"Family Values" tour--the brain-child of KORN, their
management company The Firm (led by partners Jeff Kwatinetz and
Michael Green) and John Scher at Metropolitan Entertainment
Group--launched September 22, 1998 with KORN headlining the bill
with Rammstein, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit and Orgy. Concluded Halloween,
1998.
"KORN Kampaign ‘98": KORN launched a whirlwind political
campaign-style tour to promote the release of FOLLOW THE LEADER. It
brought the guys all over North America to spread the news of their
"Family Values" platform to hordes of fans at special
"fan conferences" that were organized at every stop along
the tour route. Lasted from August 17 in Los Angeles through
September 1 in Phoenix. KORN chartered a jet, which took them to
record stores in such cities as Riverside (CA), San Francisco,
Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, New
York City, Toronto, Atlanta, and Dallas. They talked to fans at
every stop, answered questions during the special "fan
conferences" and signed autographs. Jim Rose hosted the entire
"Kampaign" tour. Celebrities at various stops included Ice
Cube and Todd McFarlane.
Woodstock ‘99: Performed an explosive, career-defining set July
23, 1999 at the weekend event in New York.
WWW.KORN.COM (the band’s official website) re-launched August 1,
1998 and currently plays host to over 200,000 fans on the official
e-mail list, and over 75,000 fans visit the website every week.
It’s all these fans who have helped spawn one of the largest
Internet fan bases and largest number of fan-created
"unofficial" websites on the ‘Net. The website was
completely re-vamped to include a "KORN News" section,
that is constantly updated with the latest on what’s happening
with KORN, new photos of the band, access to a store where fans
could buy the latest KORN merchandise, and more.
WWW.KORN.COM is also the new official site of "KORN-TV,"
the band’s Internet network. The current "KORN-TV"
website--found at www.korntv.com--is still available on the Internet
for an infinite amount of time and features re-runs of the first
season of "KORN’s After-School Special."
"KORN’s After-School Special 1998" aired every Thursday
at 4:30-5:30 PM PT from March 5 - April 16 (six weeks). The weekly
program gave thousands of fans around the globe a personal tour of
the world of KORN while recording FOLLOW THE LEADER in the studio in
Los Angeles. Some of the special celebrity hosts and guests included
members of 311, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Sugar Ray, the Pharcyde and
Orgy (who are signed to KORN’s label, Elementree Records); porn
stars Ron Jeremy, Shane, and Randy Rage. Two particular highlights
of the series were the separate appearances by two of the leaders in
the dominatrix world: Dita and Dominic. |
