Studio Album · No. 3
Urban Hymns Songwriting Credits by The Verve
Produced by The Verve, Chris Potter
Holds writing credit on 13 of 13 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 13 / 13 documented
Scored across the 13 tracks with documented writers, by whether The Verve carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 13 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Ashcroft is on all thirteen tracks and alone on nine of them, the album where the band becomes his. It also holds the song whose royalties went to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for twenty-two years over a four-bar sample, which is the widest gap between who wrote a song and who was paid for it in this catalogue.
Urban Hymns came out on Hut in September 1997 and has sold 3,315,950 in the United Kingdom, where it is certified 11x platinum. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" reached number 12 on the Hot 100.