Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby is the debut studio album by Terence Trent D’Arby. It was released in July 1987 on Columbia Records, and debuted at number one in the UK, spending a total of nine weeks (non-consecutively) at the top of the UK Albums Chart. It was eventually certified 5× Platinum (for sales of 1.5 million copies). Worldwide, the album sold a million copies within the first three days of going on sale.^[8] The album was also a hit in the USA, although its success was slower. It was released there in October 1987, eventually peaking at number four on May 7, 1988,^[9] – the same week that the single “Wishing Well” hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. It did peak higher on the Billboard R&B Albums chart at number one around the same time.

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