Song of the day for April 13, 2024
Band on the Run by Paul McCartney is todays featured song.
On this day In 1974, Paul McCartney and Wings topped the US album charts with Band On The Run. The album, which would go on to sell six million copies worldwide, hit the summit of the Billboard 200 on three separate occasions during the year. It remains McCartney’s most commercially successful album.
It was McCartney’s fifth album after leaving the Beatles in April 1970. Although sales were modest initially, its commercial performance was aided by two hit singles – “Jet” and “Band on the Run” – such that it became the top-selling studio album of 1974 in the United Kingdom and Australia, in addition to revitalising McCartney’s critical standing. It remains McCartney’s most successful album and the most celebrated of his post-Beatles works.
