#1 Album on October 14, 2002

Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits
Elvis Presley

Thirty #1 hits by Elvis Presley debuted in the top spot. This posthumous achievement made Elvis the only solo act in recording history to earn a #1 album in each of four different decades. Elvis made his first public performance at age ten in a singing contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. He sang Red Foley's "Old Shep".
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#1 Album on October 13, 1973

Goats Head Soup
Rolling Stones

Goats Head Soup produced the #1 hit "Angie" and the charted hit "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)". Legal issues for guitarist Keith Richards caused the band to relocate to Jamaica for the album's recording sessions. One outtake from the album, "Waiting on a Friend", would become a hit several years later for the Stones.
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#1 Album on October 12, 1968

Cheap Thrills
Big Brother and the Holding Company

The #1 single "Piece of My Heart" propelled Big Brother's last album with lead singer Janis Joplin to the top of the album charts for eight weeks. The highly anticipated album was released in the summer of 1968 at the height of the psychedelic music scene. Janis Joplin left Big Brother and the Holding Company for a solo career in December 1968.
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#1 Album on October 11, 1997

Evolution
Boyz II Men

Evolution was released three years after the group's 1994 super smash album "II". The highly anticipated album debuted at #1 and produced the #1 "4 Seasons of Loneliness" and the charted single "A Song for Mama". The Philadelphia-based trio is the only group in history to have seven platinum singles in the United States.
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#1 Album on October 10, 1992

The Chase
Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks' The Chase features two #1 country hits "Somewhere Other Than the Night" and "That Summer", as well as the charted songs "We Shall Be Free" and "Learning to Live Again". Garth Brooks wrote the memorable gospel/country song "We Shall Be Free" after spending time in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots.
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#1 Album on October 9, 2002

Believe
Disturbed

Believe debuted at #1, produced the singles "Prayer", "Liberate" and "Remember", and was the first of three consecutive #1 albums for the Chicago-based band. The members of Disturbed first played under the name Brawl. Lead singer David Draiman answered a newspaper ad and joined the band's three other members in 1996.
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#1 Album on October 8, 1978

Don't Look Back
Boston

The classic rock group Boston became a phenomenal success after its 1976 self-titled debut release. The #1 album produced the classic rock hits "More Than a Feeling" and "Long Time". The band followed up two years later with the #1 album Don't Look Back. Boston formed during the early 1970s and first played under the name "Mother's Milk".
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