The Innocents

The Innocents is the third studio album by English synth-pop duo Erasure, released on 10 April 1988 by Sire and Reprise Records in the United States and on 18 April 1988 by Mute Records in Germany and the United Kingdom. Produced by Stephen Hague, it was the release that made Erasure superstars in their home country of the UK and gave them their breakthrough in the US. The Innocents became the first in a string of number-one albums by Erasure in the UK, turning double platinum with sales over 600,000. Thanks to heavy exposure on MTV, it also spawned two major Billboard Hot 100 hits, a Top 50 placing on the Billboard 200 and Platinum album certification in the US. According to Nielsen SoundScan, 23 years after its release the album has sold a total of five million copies worldwide. It is their best selling album to date. The album was remastered and re-released on 26 October 2009 to celebrate its 21st anniversary. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inn...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)