The success of Parklife (1994) revived Blur’s commercial fortunes. The album’s first single, the disco-influenced ” Girls & Boys “, found favour on BBC Radio 1 and peaked at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 59 in the US Billboard Hot 100 where it remains the band’s highest-charting single. Parklife entered the British charts at number one and stayed on the album charts for 90 weeks. Enthusiastically greeted by the music press—the NME called it “a Great Pop Record … bigger, bolder, narkier and funnier [than Modern Life is Rubbish ]”— Parklife is regarded as one of Britpop’s defining records. Blur won four awards at the 1995 Brit Awards , including Best Band and Best Album for Parklife . Coxon later pointed to Parklife as the moment when “[Blur] went from being regarded as an alternative, left field arty band to this amazing new pop sensation”.
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