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Start Something
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Studio album by
Lostprophets
Released12 January 2004 (AU)
2 February 2004 (UK & Asia) [1]
3 February 2004 (North America)
RecordedMarch–September 2003 [2]
StudioBigfoot Studios (Los Angeles)
Bay 7 Studios (Calabasas)
Genre Nu metal [3] [4]
Length56:48 (United Kingdom)
52:43 (United States)
65:01 (Japan)
Label Visible Noise (United Kingdom)
Columbia (United States)
Producer Eric Valentine [2]
Lostprophets chronology
The Fake Sound of Progress
(2000)		Start Something
(2004)		 Liberation Transmission
(2006)
Singles from Start Something
  1. "Burn Burn"
    Released: 3 November 2003
  2. "Last Train Home"
    Released: 27 December 2003
  3. "Wake Up (Make a Move)"
    Released: 3 May 2004
  4. "Last Summer"
    Released: 23 August 2004
  5. "I Don't Know"
    Released: 26 October 2004
    (radio airplay)
  6. "Goodbye Tonight"
    Released: 22 November 2004

Start Something is the second studio album by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets, released on 2 February 2004 through Visible Noise in the United Kingdom and South Korea. The album was released internationally on 5 February 2004 through Columbia. The band began work on the album in 2003 after touring for support of their previous album, The Fake Sound of Progress . This is the second and last album featuring the original drummer Mike Chiplin.

Contents

Start Something was both a critical and commercial success, quickly becoming the band's most successful album. It peaked at number 33 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and was eventually certified Gold by the RIAA. Six singles were released from the album: "Burn Burn", "Last Train Home", "Wake Up (Make a Move)", "Last Summer", "Goodbye Tonight" and the radio single "I Don't Know". These singles helped Lostprophets reach mainstream popularity. The album would go on to be certified platinum by the BPI in the United Kingdom, and gold in the United States by the RIAA.

Composition

The album was produced by Eric Valentine who had also produced albums from Queens of the Stone Age and Good Charlotte. The band claimed they had settled on the title to introduce their abilities on a more grand musical level as compared to their actual debut The Fake Sound of Progress , as they considered it to be more of a reworked demo. According to lead singer Ian Watkins, the title was also influenced by several friends of the band they had claimed would "love to do this and that, but never had the drive to do it". [5] [6]

Prior to the beginning of the recording process, the band had befriended Hoobastank as the two bands shared a recording space in Calabasas, California. Watkins and Jamie Oliver recorded their guest appearance for the Hoobastank song Out of Control off of their 2003 album The Reason. [7]

The band cancelled their scheduled performance at the 2003 Reading and Leeds Festival to continue work on the album. Watkins claimed the band sought to finish recording, claiming "We want to make the best record possible and did not want to rush anything, unfortunately these shows are at the final stages of making the record and we felt it was more important." The Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro replaced Lostprophets at the festival. [8]

Billy Martin and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte record additional vocals on "Last Train Home".[ citation needed ]

The track listing varies depending on region, the track "We Are Godzilla, You Are Japan" was omitted from the North American version of the album, though versions with the track have the final two tracks "Sway" and "Outro" consolidated into one track.

The band included two additional tracks for the album's Japanese version; "Lucky You" and "Like a Fire". Despite not appearing as a track on any of the singles or on any version outside of the Japanese and original Australian release; "Lucky You" was submitted by the band for its inclusion in the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack, released on 30 June 2004 alongside the film. [9] Original pressings of the Australian release had also included "Lucky You" as the penultimate track, but it was later removed in 2005. Other recording outtakes such as "The Politics of Emotion", "Holding On", "Our Broken Hearts", and "Push Out the Jive, Bring in the Love" were scrapped from the final track listing, though they appear on several singles.[ citation needed ]

Artwork

The album cover (designed by Watkins and Oliver) features a new gothic style logo with German blackletter typeface, replacing the old logo used for The Fake Sound of Progress. It would in itself be replaced for the band's next album, but featured on several of the band's singles taken from this album. Sometimes the lyrics "but even through your doubts, we will still be here", taken from "We Still Kill The Old Way", [10] are written below the logo. [11] The figure at the front of the artwork wears blue jeans, a black hoodie and a baseball cap and was jokingly thought to resemble Justin Timberlake in several humorous interviews with the band. [12] However, the person actually depicted in the photograph was Watkins, as was later clarified by bassist Stuart Richardson in 2005. [13] [14]

At the time, Oliver was also an acclaimed artist with his work being displayed in several exhibitions depicting Rhondda life. [15] There are slight variations with the cover in different territories with some editions showing the shadow of the figure with wings - either angels wings or more likely bird wings. This is best depicted in an official promotional wallpaper the band released for fans. [16] The picture was shot on the 1st Street Bridge in Boyle Heights, directly east of Los Angeles, [13] where the album was recorded and mixed. Watkins claimed he regarded artwork as "just as important as the music". During a January 2010 interview, Watkins further reflected back on Lostprophets' prior artwork claiming "I remember doing the Start Something record and compiling the inlay which is a collage of two years of our lives. It was so much fun. I'd sit there for hours looking at the booklet and all the little pictures. I did that to all the albums I bought." [17]

Promotion

Songs from the new album were first performed live on 17 August 2003 at Newport, [18] the first gig of three alongside a Birmingham date and a Manchester date, in preparation for the Reading and Leeds festival at the end of August. [19] For these gigs, "We Still Kill the Old Way" became the regular opener, whilst sets closed with "Burn Burn", with tracks from their previous album interspersed in between. [20] Kerrang noted in a live review from Manchester that "We Still Kill the Old Way" and "To Hell We Ride" were "well received" but that "the surfeit of new material leads to a comparatively muted response". [21] [22] At the end of July though it was announced that the band had cancelled their appearance at Reading and Leeds, whilst still promising to play the three warm-up shows, citing that they wanted the recording of Start Something to take precedence. Ian Watkins later announced "Unfortunately these shows are at the final stages of making the record and we felt it was more important not to short change anyone." [23] The band did however support Linkin Park at Wembley Arena in London on 22 November 2003 performing eight songs, including five from the upcoming album. [24] Despite the recording process, the band performed a total of four dates in 2003.[ citation needed ]

The song "To Hell We Ride" made an appearance in the video game Need for Speed: Underground, released in November 2003, as a bonus feature of the game, users could unlock a custom 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R given a custom livery with the band's logo and artwork from the upcoming album as an easter egg. [25] [26]

Commercial Performance

Europe

The album was well received in the UK, being certified Silver and later Gold by the BPI on 20 February 2004, it would go on to be certified Platinum in the UK on 14 January 2005. [27] The album debuted on the UK Albums Chart at #4 in 2004, in 2005 it reached its peak position #93 and after the release of Liberation Transmission in 2006 the album re-charted and peaked at #133. [28] The album was also well received in Germany, entering the German album charts at #51. The album's lead single "Burn Burn" became the band's first charting song in Germany, peaking at #81. "Last Train Home" had proved to become a more successful single as it peaked #48. The album also managed to chart in Finland, Austria, Ireland, France, and the mainland Eurochart upon release; the latter peaking at #15.

North America

Upon release, the album was poorly received in Canada, only peaking at number 87 on the Canadian Albums Chart and yielding no charting singles aside from "Last Train Home", which peaked at #14 on the Canada Rock Top 30 chart on Radio & Records . Despite this; the album was positively received in the United States, being compared to American acts such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and Incubus. The album's first single "Burn Burn" had initially failed to chart in the United States; but the album's second single "Last Train Home" quickly became a hit; prompting the album to sell 117,000 copies in its first week in America. [29] "Last Train Home" had grown substantial attention in America in December 2003 through radio airplay regular MTV rotation. [30] The single quickly became the band's highest charting single in America, prompting the band members to appear as guests on Total Request Live on 13 March 2004. [31] The single had also managed to beat fellow UK rock band The Darkness' hit single I Believe in a Thing Called Love (released in September 2003), charting twelve spots higher on Billboard's Mainstream Rock charts upon release in December 2003. The song became the highest-charting single of any UK rock act in the United States in 2003. [32] In mid-February 2004, Start Something peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200 becoming the band's highest charting album in the United States to date. [33] The album also reached #121 on the Billboard's Year-End Chart in the United States in December 2004. [34] To date, it is the band's only release certified by the RIAA. On 3 June 2004 the album was certified Gold by the RIAA in the United States. Despite the strong response to the album's second single; "Wake Up (Make a Move)" was not as well received, though it also charted in America at #16, "I Don't Know", was also released as a radio-only single on 26 October 2004, [35] it ultimately peaked at #11 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and #24 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. [28] [30]

Australia/New Zealand

Despite entering the New Zealand album charts at #14, Start Something did not yield any charting singles in the country. Australia had a similarly mixed reception for the album's release as only "Burn Burn" and "Last Train Home" charted as singles respectively. [28] Regardless; Burn Burn had managed to become a minor hit in Australia, peaking at #48 in December 2003.

Streaming

In May 2012 the album had still garnered 10.8 million plays by 640,000 listeners on Last.FM. As of May 2023, the album is still the band's most popular record following their breakup in 2013. Spotify reported that "Start Something" still receives over 60,000 monthly plays from users in the UK. [36]

Despite Watkins' conviction in 2012; the album remains purchasable internationally on Apple Music. Spotify also has the album available for play only for users in the United Kingdom and Japan. Much of the band's Visible Noise catalogue was not renewed for licensing to be streamed in markets such as North America, Australia, or South Korea after 2012. [37]

Critical Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 70/100 [38]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [39]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [40]
entertainment.ie Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [41]
Entertainment Weekly B [42]
IGN 7.1/10 [43]
Kerrang! Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg[ citation needed ]
Melodic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [44]
NME 8/10 [45]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [46]
Sputnikmusic3.5/5 [47]

The album received mostly positive reviews from music critics, At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 70, based on 13 reviews. [38]

Johnny Loftus from Allmusic gave the album a negative review, claiming that they had too big of a resemblance to American bands such as Faith No More, Incubus and Hoobastank; Loftus gave the album 2 out of 5 stars. [39] He noted a more melodic singing style on the album when compared to The Fake Sound of Progress, commenting that "the Mike Patton scream Prophets vocalist Ian Watkins perfected on 2001's Fake Sound of Progress has — like it did for Brandon Boyd and Doug Robb — mellowed into a blandly earnest yawp capable of keeping things thick enough for the dudes but still rife with those heartfelt intakes of breath that the ladies love." [39] In his July 2004 review, Jason MacNeil of PopMatters also considered the album to be derivative of American bands, labelling the track "I Don't Know" as "Incubus-by-numbers", adding that on the title track "Faith No More is also brought back from the dead as the piano tinkling surpasses the guitars." [48]

Rolling Stone reviewer Kirk Miller was more positive to the album and called it a "kick-ass tribute" because of its resemblance to Faith No More, and gave the album 3 out of 5 stars. [46] Justin Kownacki from Splendid said "this is one of those finely-polished discs that should have no trouble finding a huge audience" and was more over positive to the album. [49]

Drowned in Sound reviewer Gen Williams said "It's a really really really really really REALLY great pop-metal explosion." and continued to say "Burn Burn" boasted "the catchiest hook this side of Linkin Park" and that the alleged Adamski rip-off was justified because of the song's quality, and giving the album 8 out of 10 stars. [40]

Q called it "Unashamedly Epic."[ citation needed ] NME said "This is something genuinely fresh... here friends, is the real sound of progress (reference to the band's previous effort, The Fake Sound of Progress )" and Observer Music Monthly credited Start Something on being "A hybrid of big rock choruses, powerful rhythms and a neat pop edge to their rock artillery."[ citation needed ] Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B and said that Lostprophets "mostly live up to that high standard by juxtaposing gnarly metal riffs with quirky electronic interludes. Only the occasional lapse into Linkin Park-style self-indulgence drags them down." [38] [42]

It was ranked seventh in Kerrang! magazine's Albums of the Year 2004 list. [50] In a readers poll titled Top 100 British Rock Albums the album was ranked eighteenth, and was the third highest of the 2000s, however the poll was taken in February 2005 whilst the album was still fresh in the mind for many. [51]

In 2005, Start Something was ranked number 364 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. [52] Rock Sound magazine ranked the album eighth on their Critics' Poll 2004, the highest placing for a British band. [53]

Tour

To promote the album, the band toured North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. Four months before the release of Start Something the band embarked on a tour in support. The tour began in the United Kingdom. [54] The band also announced dates, opening for Linkin Park on their UK arena tour for select dates in October 2003. [55] The band also announced performances at the NME Award show at the London Astoria and later announced further UK dates in Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester among others. [56] The concert in the London Astoria ended up being sold out. [57]

The band took part in the second European leg of Metallica's Madly in Anger with the World Tour alongside Slipknot and Godsmack. Lostprophets were billed as the opening act for European dates stretching from 26 May, to 4 July 2004. Though their own touring commitments forced them to drop from the tour with Metallica prior to the second North American leg in August as they were also obligated to perform in the United States later that month.

The North American leg of the tour began on 19 March 2004, lasting until 18 December. [58] Lostprophets would also take part of MTV's Campus Invasion Tour, in support for headliners Hoobastank, beginning at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. [59] In May 2004 the band performed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for a one night show. [60] The band announced further dates in New Zealand and Australia as a part of the Big Day Out festival, and dates in Asia were later announced, marking the band's first performance in Japan. [60] The band returned to the UK in November 2004 as their own headliners, and capped off their tour with 10 additional American dates, ultimately ending the tour in Cleveland, Ohio on 18 December 2004. [61] [62]

Prior to 2013, Start Something was still the band's most popular album with just over 35% of songs coming from that album across all their performances from 2004 to 2012. [63] [64] During the band's 2012 tour in support of their album Weapons , the band announced a homecoming show at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena where the album was played in its entirety. [65] [66] [67] Stuart Richardson said "We wrote the record in Caerphilly. Start Something is when we kind of came into our own as a band, and Cardiff is where we came into our own as people". The performance sold out with a crowd of 10,000 people. [68] [69] [70] [71]

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
'03-'04 Meteora World Tour (UK Leg In Support of Linkin Park)
10 October 2003 Birmingham United KingdomBirmingham Arena
28 October 2003 Glasgow The Garage
29 October 2003 Birmingham O2 Academy Birmingham
20 November 2003 Glasgow SECC Centre
21 November 2003 Manchester Manchester Arena
22 November 2003 London OVO Wembley Arena
24 November 2003 Birmingham O2 Academy Birmingham
25 November 2003 Cardiff Cardiff International Arena
DateCityCountryVenue
Start Something World Tour (Leg I)
16 January 2004 Auckland New Zealand Big Day Out '04
18 January 2004 Gold Coast, Queensland Australia
23 January 2004
26 January 2004 Melbourne
30 January 2004 Adelaide
3 February 2004 New York City United StatesIrving Plaza
7 February 2004 Glasgow United KingdomQueen Margaret Union
8 February 2004 Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle University
9 February 2004 London Astoria
10 February 2004 Glasgow Queen Margaret Union
11 February 2004 Norwich University of East Anglia
12 February 2004 Birmingham Carling Academy
13 February 2004 Portsmouth Pyramids Centre
15 February 2004 Leeds Leeds Metropolitan University
16 February 2004 Manchester University of Manchester
17 February 2004 Nottingham Rock City
19 February 2004 Liverpool O2 Arena Liverpool
20 February 2004 Cardiff Great Hall Cardiff
22 February 2004 Brixton Brixton Academy
8 March 2004 Amsterdam The Netherlands The Max, Melkweg
DateCityCountryVenue
MTV Campus Invasion Tour
19 March 2004 Chattanooga, Tennessee United States University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
26 March 2004 Ashland, Ohio Ashland University
29 March 2004 Alfred, New York Alfred University
31 March 2004 Blacksburg, Virginia Virginia Tech
2 April 2004 Jackson, Mississippi University of Mississippi
6 April 2004 Miami, Florida Florida International University
7 April 2004 Orlando, Florida University of Central Florida
8 April 2004 Fort Myers, Florida Florida Gulf Coast University
15 April 2004 San Angelo, Texas Angelo State University
22 April 2004 DeKalb, Illinois Northern University
23 April 2004 Buffalo, New York University at Buffalo
24 April 2004 Norfolk, Virginia Old Dominion University
DateCityCountryVenue
Madly in Anger with the World Tour (European supporting act for Metallica)
26 May 2004 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium
28 May 2004 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Olympic Stadium
30 May 2004 Gothenburg Sweden Ullevi
31 May 2004 Chorzów Poland Silesian Stadium
2 June 2004 Glasgow Scotland Glasgow Green
4 June 2004 Nürburg Germany Rock Am Ring
6 June 2004 Castle Donington England Donington Park
8 June 2004 Ludwigshafen Germany Südweststadion
10 June 2004 Gelsenkirchen Arena AufSchalke
11 June 2004 Vienna Austria Flugfeld Civitas Nova
13 June 2004 Munich Germany Olympiastadion
15 June 2004 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro Partizan Stadium
16 June 2004 Bremen Germany Weser-Stadion
18 June 2004 Zürich Switzerland Letzigrund
19 June 2004 Zaragoza Spain La Romareda
21 June 2004 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam Arena
23 June 2004ParisFrance Parc des Princes
25 June 2004 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena
29 June 2004 Padua Italy Stadio Euganeo
1 July 2004 Prague Czech Republic T-Mobile Park Kolbenova
2 July 2004 Werchter Belgium Rock Werchter
DateCityCountryVenue
Start Something World Tour (Leg II)
15 July 2004 Washington D.C. United States9:30 Club
16 July 2004 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Trocadero Theatre
17 July 2004 Charlotte, North Carolina Tremont Music Hall
21 July 2004 Orlando, Florida Hard Rock Live Orlando
25 July 2004 Cleveland, Ohio The Odeon
27 July 2004 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Rock Club
28 July 2004 Pontiac, Michigan Clutch Cargo's
31 July 2004 Minneapolis, Minnesota The Quest Club
3 August 2004 St. Louis, Missouri Mississippi Nights
8 August 2004 Tokyo JapanSummer Sonic 2004
13 August 2004 Boston, Massachusetts United StatesThe Axis
14 August 2004 Sayreville, New Jersey Starland Ballroom
27 August 2004 Wetherby United KingdomReading Festival 2004
29 August 2004 Leeds Leeds Festival
19 September 2004 Birmingham BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend
22 September 2004 Grand Prairie, Texas United StatesTexas Trust CU Theatre at Grand Prairie
24 September 2004 Denver, Colorado The Filmore
25 September 2004 Salt Lake City, Utah X96 Big Ass Show
26 September 2004 Las Vegas, Nevada House of Blues Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay
28 September 2004 Anaheim, California City National Grove of Anaheim
2 October 2004 Tucson, Arizona Tucson Electric Park
3 October 2004 Los Angeles, California The Wiltern
4 October 2004 Davis, California Freeborn Hall, UC Davis
5 October 2004 San Francisco, California The Warfield Theatre
9 October 2004 Portland, Oregon Roseland Theater
13 October 2004 Kansas City, Missouri Uptown Theater
14 October 2004 Minneapolis, Minnesota Quest Club
15 October 2004 Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Eagles Club
16 October 2004 Chicago, Illinois Congress Theater
19 October 2004 Toronto Canada Kool Haus
21 October 2004 Detroit, Michigan United StatesThe Fillmore Detroit
22 October 2004 Cleveland, Ohio Agora Ballroom
23 October 2004 Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania Ice Garden Arena
24 October 2004 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Franklin Music Hall
26 October 2004 New York City Roseland Ballroom
27 October 2004 Boston, Massachusetts Avalon
1 November 2004 Nashville, Tennessee Rockettown
13 November 2004 Glasgow United KingdomSECC Glasgow Hall 4
14 November 2004 Newcastle upon Tyne Northumbria University
20 November 2004 Manchester O2 Apollo Manchester
21 November 2004 Cardiff Cardiff International Arena
23 November 2004 Leeds The Reflectory
24 November 2004 Wolverhampton Civic Arena
28 November 2004 Belfast Ulster Hall
30 November 2004 Bridgeport, Connecticut United StatesMJ Nesheiwat Convention Center
4 December 2004 West Palm Beach, Florida Buzz Bake Sale 04
5 December 2004 Clearwater, Florida Coachman Park
7 December 2004 Lake Buena Vista, Florida House of Blues Buena Vista
8 December 2004 Pensacola, Florida Pensacola Bay Center
9 December 2004 New Orleans, Louisiana House of Blues New Orleans
12 December 2004 Dallas, Texas 2513 Deep Ellum
16 December 2004 St. Louis, Missouri The Pageant
17 December 2004 Cincinnati, Ohio Bogart's
18 December 2004 Cleveland, Ohio House of Blues Cleveland

Legacy

In June 2012 the album was entered into Rock Sound magazine's Hall of Fame with features on how the band look back on the album and how it has influenced others. [72] Rock Sound said that the album made the band into "one of our greatest rock commodities" and called it a "defining record for the UK rock scene as a whole". [73] Lee Gaze stated "Start Something is the greatest hits of what Lostprophets do". Aled Phillips of Kids in Glass Houses said "it was a turning point for a lot of bands" but also that "everyone's jeans got tighter and started wearing Nike Dunks - it was a cultural shift. With them it was never just about the music, everybody got swept up in the whole aesthetic as well". [74] Five British rock records - All Our Kings Are Dead , We Are the Dynamite , World Record , Free and Hold Me Down - were all cited as being heavily influenced by Start Something. [73]

BBC Wales called the album a "modern rock classic" in retrospect [75] and BBC Music called it a "UK rock classic". [76] Whilst WalesOnline noted how the album had been "a galvanising force in the Welsh rock scene". [77] The BBC also produced a radio programme with Bethan Elfyn that aired on BBC Radio 1 in May 2010, which featured the Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers, Funeral for a Friend and The Blackout amongst others, and titled it "Start Something: The Story of South Wales Rock" in honour of the album. [78] [79] The album was included in Rock Sound 's 101 Modern Classics list at number 14. [80]

The album has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide to date; according to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). [81]

Awards

Kerrang! Awards
YearNominee / workAwardResult
2004Start Something [82] Best AlbumNominated
2004Last Train Home [83] Best SingleWon
Metal Hammer Awards
YearNominee / workAwardResult
2004Lostprophets for Start Something tour [84] Best Live ActNominated

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRecordingYearRank
Kerrang!Albums of the Year [50] -20047th
Kerrang!666 Songs You Must Own [85] Burn Burn & Last Train Home2005*
Kerrang!The Rock 100 [86] Last Train Home2012*
Kerrang!The 50 Best Albums of the 21st Century [87] -200919th
Rock SoundCritic' Poll [53] -20048th
Metal HammerAlbums of 2004 [88] -200410th
QRecordings of the Year [89] -200432nd
QReaders Best Tracks of the Year [90] Last Summer200482nd
QUltimate Music Collection [91] Burn Burn2005*
Classic RockEnd of Year Best Albums [92] -200413th
Rock SoundHall of Fame Records [93] -2012*

(*) designates unordered lists.

Personnel

Credits for Start Something adapted from liner notes. [2]

Production

Track listing

All lyrics written by Ian Watkins, all music composed by Lostprophets.

Charts

ChartPosition
Australian Albums Chart [95] 66
Austrian Albums Charts [96] 60
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [97] 87
European Top 100 Albums [98] 15
Finnish Albums Chart [99] 46
French Albums Charts [100] 69
German Albums Chart [101] 51
Irish Album Charts [102] 61
Japanese Albums Chart [103] 34
New Zealand Album Charts [104] 14
UK Album Charts [28] 4
US Billboard 200 [33] 33
US Billboard Comprehensive Albums [34] 33

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [105] Platinum300,000^
United States (RIAA) [106] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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