Album Reception
Though not a major commercial success, the album scored a number of positive reviews with one reviewer calling it a "richly textured" "return to excellence." In the 1998 Grammy awards Earthling was nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance and the song Dead Man Walking was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. The album performed better than its highly experimental predecessor, Outside, reaching number 6 in the UK charts and number 39 in the US. Rolling Stone magazine praised the album, noting that exposure to Nine Inch Nails on Bowie's previous tour had apparently influenced him on this album, and they called it "his best since 1980's Scary Monsters." The album scored a minor hit with a Trent Reznor remix of "I'm Afraid of Americans".
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