The early days of Genesis had been about incessant touring across the UK, with near 300 reveals in 1970 and 1971 alone as they constructed a following on stage and on album. Their first American performances got here on the finish of 1972, but it surely was one other 12 months earlier than they lastly made their US chart debut. That occurred when Promoting England By The Pound, launched on October 12, 1973, took a bow on the Billboard 200 on December 15.
The band had missed the charts at dwelling with 1970’s Trespass, and the next 12 months’s Nursery Cryme didn’t make the bestsellers till 1974, once they had been a lot better identified. However Foxtrot was a No.12 success within the UK and the Genesis Stay set grew to become their first home high ten album, at No.9.
So expectations for Promoting England had been excessive within the UK, and it didn’t disappoint, getting into the chart at its No.3 peak behind Slade’s Sladest and Gilbert O’Sullivan’s I’m A Author Not A Fighter. The Genesis album spent 4 consecutive weeks within the high ten and 21 within the chart total.
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Its American launch was extra low-key, however the band had media supporters, and FM rock radio assist from the likes of KSHE in St. Louis, Missouri; WHCN in Hartford, Connecticut; WRAS in Atlanta, Georgia and KAFM in Dallas. “This popular English band’s first for its new label showcases their pretty vocal and word pictures about life in England,” wrote Billboard. “Pretty [their repetition] piano playing, which leads into a crescendo on organ with rippling guitar runs, highlight…‘Firth of Fifth.’”
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All of that helped the Charisma launch to make its chart debut at No.167, and Promoting England went on to climb to No.70. Having toured the US within the spring of 1973, Genesis had been again there to assist the American album launch alongside, with a college and theatre tour and no fewer than six reveals, two per evening, on the Roxy in Los Angeles.
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