Issues

Issues is the fourth studio album by Korn, released in November 1999 on Immortal/Epic Records and produced by Brendan O'Brien, released 15 months after Follow the Leader during the peak of nu-metal's commercial dominance, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 with 576,000 first-week sales, which was among the largest opening weeks for a hard rock album in history at the time. Davis wrote all lyrics; the album includes 'Falling Away from Me,' 'Make Me Bad,' 'Somebody Someone,' and 'Wake Up' among the principal tracks, with Staind members Jonathan Davis Jr. providing additional musical contributions. Issues has been certified five-times platinum in the United States and generated three top-ten mainstream rock singles; the commercial performance reflected the band's position at the absolute peak of nu-metal's commercial wave. The album is primarily regarded as a consolidation of the Follow the Leader formula rather than a creative expansion, but the commercial numbers it generated represent the high-water mark of the band's mainstream commercial performance.