Human Clay released

With money made from My Own Prison , the band started to write for their second album, Human Clay . The album’s first single, ” Higher “, spent a record-breaking 17 weeks on the top of the rock radio charts. In 2009, “Higher” was ranked the 95th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1 . The album was released in 1999, when My Own Prison was still doing reasonably well. However, Human Clay was an instant and overwhelming success debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and selling over ten million copies over the next two years, becoming one of the few rock albums to be certified diamond by the RIAA . The album was the band’s first to hit No. 1 in the U.S., where it debuted with first week sales of 315,000, and stayed on top for two weeks. After the release of “Higher” and then the album in late 1999, three follow-up singles were released in 2000: ” What If “, ” With Arms Wide Open “, and “Are You Ready?”. The first three singles topped radio charts, giving Creed a total of seven chart-topping singles. The band would later go on to win a Grammy Award for “With Arms Wide Open” for Best Rock Song in 2001.