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F ly or D ie (Released March 23, 2004)

S eeing S ounds (Released June 09, 2008)

NE*R*D decided to learn to play their own instruments so they could perform the twelve tracks on this album live. F ly or D ie debuted at number six on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, with a very respectable 119,000 copies sold in the first week. It went on to be certified Gold, with total sales of over 400,000 copies in the United States alone. The top single, She Wants to Move (released

NE*R*D put out their third album in June 2008 after taking a three-year break. During their time off, they played at a music festival in Sweden, performed before 40,000 people at the Floriana Granaries (Isle of MTV 2008), performed in Chicago at the House of Blues, and toured as one of the opening acts of the famous Glow in the Dark Tour with Kanye West. S eeing S ounds sold 80,000 copies in its first week, debuting on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart at number seven, but rapidly faded after its initial success. The two most successful singles from this album are Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom), released May 13, 2008, and Spaz , which was eventually used by Microsoft in a TV commercial for their product Zune. N othing (Released November 02, 2010) NE*R*D’s fourth album N othing was released in November 2010. Pharrell said, So we thought why not make a timeless album that’s kind of a time capsule, so ten years from now people look at that album and go, ‘I remember that era. That’s when the N othing album came out.’ I just wanted to make some good music that would affect people in a good way.

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March 09, 2004), rose to number five in the UK charts. On first listen, this song seems to be misogynistic, but in reality, it praises women and encourages them to act and move freely in the world. She Wants to Move , together with the single Maybe , received extensive airplay on VH1 Soul, now known as BET Soul. Chad Hugo of NE*R*D, in an interview with MTV News in December 2003, said, We’re the ones playing the instruments live this time [on F ly or D ie ]. I just started playing guitar last year so I’m learning as we go. Pharrell’s playing drums. [Last time] we didn’t have time to learn certain instruments so we got Spymob to help us out.

Scan the code to watch the music video for Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom) featuring NE*R*D

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