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''Play'' is the fifth studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released on May 17, 1999, by V2 Records. It was recorded at his Little Italy apartment in New York City. While some of Moby's earlier work garnered critical and commercial success within the electronic dance music scene, ''Play'' was both a critical success and a commercial phenomenon. The album introduced Moby to a worldwide mainstream audience, not only through a large number of hit singles (that helped the album to dominate worldwide charts for two years), but also through unprecedented licensing of his music in films, television, and commercial advertisements. It eventually became the biggest-selling album of its genre, with over 12 million copies sold worldwide.〔(Mobile Marketing Association ) Dwango wireless and ingrooves to provide Moby fans with new, exclusive ringtones, images.〕 In 2003, the album was ranked number 341 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.〔 It was nominated for both a Grammy Award and Brit Award, was the UK's biggest selling independent album of 2000, and certified platinum status in more than 20 countries. ==Background== The second half of the 1990s saw Moby in career turmoil after years of being a successful techno wunderkind. The release in 1996 of ''Animal Rights'', a dark, eclectic, guitar-fueled record built around the punk and metal records that he loved as a teenager, proved a critical and commercial disaster that left him considering quitting music altogether and going back to school to study architecture. He explained: "I was opening for Soundgarden and getting shit thrown at me every night onstage. I did my own tour and was playing to roughly fifty people a night." However, he claimed, "I got one piece of fan mail from Terence Trent D'Arby and I got a phone call from Axl Rose saying he was listening to ''Animal Rights'' on repeat. Bono told me he loved ''Animal Rights''. So if you're gonna have three pieces of fan mail, that's the fan mail to get." 〔 When he finally recorded its follow-up, ''Play'', there was no sign that the album would perform any differently than ''Animal Rights''. According to Moby, he shopped the record to every major label (from Warner Bros. to Sony to RCA) and was rejected every time. After V2 finally picked it up, his publicist sent the record to journalists, and many of them made a huge production of saying they weren't even going to listen to it. According to manager Eric Härle in an interview with HitQuarters, their original goal was to sell 250,000 copies, which was what ''Everything Is Wrong'', Moby's biggest selling album at the time, had sold. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Play (Moby album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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