Release of Into

In October 2001, The Rasmus released Into , their fourth studio album, and first album for Playground Music. It was the first The Rasmus to be released in other European countries such as France and Spain. The album reached No. 1 in the Finnish album charts and spawned the singles “F-F-F-Falling”, “Chill”, “Madness” and “Heartbreaker/Days”. All of these were released in 2001 apart from Heartbreaker/Days, which was released in 2002. For this fact and the name’s change, some fans consider this album the first of “The Rasmus”. In 2001 they also released their first compilation album, Hell of a Collection , composed of eighteen songs, nearly all of which were revamped versions of songs from the previous three albums. The exceptions are the final track, “Liquid” (Demo), which is a demo tape of their hit song “Liquid”, and the songs “F-F-F-Falling” and “Chill” which were the first new songs released after Aki replaced Janne. They won four EMMAs in 2002 for Best Group, Best Album, Best Pop/Rock Album and Best Song for “F-F-F-Falling”.