The solo album has received good reviews broadly speaking so far.
The Bruno Mars album became the fastest-selling solo album of 2012 with 136, 000 sales in its first week earlier this month, according to the Official Chart Company.
But once the music started, Gainsbourg really seemed to lose herself in the dreamy tracks from her third solo album, IRM, which gets its title from the French term for what Americans know as the MRI machine.
The catchiest song on Forster's first solo album in 12 years, The Evangelist, is "It Ain't Easy, " and the melody on that one is McLennan's too, one of half a dozen he and Forster were working out when McLennan died.
Now for the cherry on top: Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke released a solo album last year titled The Eraser.
At 16, Ms. Demeulemeester fell in love with the album cover of the American singer's 1975 debut solo album "Horses, " featuring a black-and-white photo of Ms. Smith wearing a plain white shirt and black suspenders.
Lee worked with The Beatles' George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood and Mick Fleetwood on his first solo album, On the Road to Freedom, in 1973.
While Jagger took on side projects during the 60s and 70s, it wasn t until 1985 that he decided to attempt a solo career, releasing the album She s the Boss.
It makes sense that Bachmann's remarkable new To the Races marks his first conventional album as a solo act: Shedding the prickly remoteness that has made him an acquired taste, he crafts a spare collection that pairs his gruff, world-weary lyrics with a newfound approachability.
His first solo album, The Midas Touch, brought him wider fame in 1980.
On 5 October, he releases his debut solo album - the Courtney Pine-produced From There to Here - followed by a launch event during London Jazz Festival in November.
After his divorce from Williams, Olson spent 2006 recording his first true solo album: The Salvation Blues addresses the upheaval in his life, but it also draws on contributions from both his ex-wife (who co-wrote one song) and fellow ex-Jayhawk Gary Louris (who wrote several more).
Since the band broke up in 1998, Fraser has rarely performed live - and a long-rumoured solo album has never seen the light of day.
After signing with Sugar Hill Records in 1997, he released his debut solo album Aloha From Nashville, which paved the path for his solo success in years to come.
Having secured a record contract with Universal Republic in her victory, Pope will soon hit the studio to record her debut solo album.
During the absence Paul worked on an orchestral solo album whilst Phil made an LP as Long Range.
Newman says that the experience of writing and recording a solo album provides a good balance to being a member of a band.
With Merriweather Post Pavilion, as with group member Noah Lennox's solo album Person Pitch (released under the name Panda Bear), the instrumentation has moved in an electronic direction, with samples and looping serving as a foundation for both albums.
The musician has also recorded solo material, with his second album, Apocalyptic Love, released last month.
Newman is releasing a new solo album this week, Get Guilty, in the midst of a successful career as the frontman for The New Pornographers.
She heads back to Holland in May without a job lined up but with the hope of finishing her second dream: A debut solo pop album, which will likely be in English.
Jones' solo career began in the late 1960s, releasing his first studio album in 1970.
Harris also released a solo album, " Damon Harris: Silk" in the 1970s.
His newest solo album is called Secret Agent, and it sounds like the most fully rounded version of Tony Allen Afrobeat he's ever made.
The second is from "Slinky Thing, " the first track on "Sunken Condos, " Donald Fagen's new solo album, which came out in October.
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However, it wasn't until the release of his 1989 self-titled album that Finn hit his stride as a solo act.
She self-released a debut album called Age Of Solo in 2008 and a year later performed for the BBC Electric Proms.
He parted ways with The Cribs after four years in 2011 to focus on his solo material after early recording sessions for what would be the Jarman brothers' fifth studio album, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull.
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