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Promotion
[edit]Follow the Leader is recognized as Korn's mainstream breakthrough, and the album that ultimately ushered nu metal and re-ushered heavy metal into the mainstream.[1] Follow the Leader was relesed August 18, 1998,[2] and was awarded 5X Multiple Platinum in the US on March 15, 2002, by the RIAA.[3] In fall of 1998, Korn started a Lollapalooza tour, entitled the Family Values Tour. It was called this because as guitarist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu says "because so many of their friends who were like family to us played in bands."[4] The toured started on September 22, 1998, to October 31, 1998. The tour featured a twenty seven track set-list, and grossed over 6.4 million (6,400,000). Korn maintained a generally low ticket price, usually no more than thirty dollars. Korn toured with the band Limp Bizkit, as well as Ice Cube, Orgy, Incubus, and Rammstein.[4] The tour was considered to be a major success, and promoting Follow the Leader to sales that were considered "skyrocketed."[5]
The album has 5 singles, "All in the Family," "Got the Life," "Freak on a Leash," "Children of the Korn," "B.B.K.." Follow the Leader features numerous guest vocalists, including Ice Cube on "Children of the Korn", Tre Hardson of The Pharcyde on "Cameltosis" and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst on "All in the Family".[6] Actor Cheech Marin provides vocals on "Earache My Eye", a cover of the song from the Cheech and Chong movie Up in Smoke, with the rest of the band trading instruments for the song.[6]
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allmusicwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Follow the Leader (Explicit Lyrics) Amazon.com Retrieved 2010-03-18
- ^ RIAA Gold & Platinum Retrieved 2010-03-12
- ^ a b Arvizu 2009, p. 119
- ^ Arvizu 2009, p. 121
- ^ a b Follow the Leader credit page Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-03-12