Music
In 2008, Raphael Saadiq released his classic soul-inspired album The Way I See It, which became a sleeper hit. Overlooked upon its release, it ended up charting for 41 weeks on the Billboard 200.
In November 2010, Miguel released his debut album All I Want Is You. It initially performed poorly, debuting at number 109 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 11,000 copies, and was underpromoted by his record label. However, it became a sleeper hit, as its singles attained radio airplay and Miguel toured in its promotion, and ultimately sold 404,000 copies.
The 2011 pop hit "Pumped Up Kicks" by indie rock band Foster the People has been described as a sleeper hit as it was originally a modern rock radio hit in late 2010, and slowly crossed over to contemporary hit radio by August 2011. The song's sleeper success was considered surprising by some media outlets, as rock music—and especially indie rock music—rarely crossed over to the CHR format throughout the 2000s and early 2010s.
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“Thy remembrance, and repentance, and deep musings are not free
From the music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)