Blind
Melon's debut album has sold approximately 4 million copies worldwide.
It reached number 3 on the U.S.A. Billboard top 200 in 1992 and went triple
platinum in the U.S.A.
Soup
sold approximately 217,000 copies and reached number 28 on the U.S.A. Billboard
top 200 in 1995.
No
Rain reached number 1 on the AOR (classic rock), modern rock and metal
charts.
Soup
was voted the 13th best album of 1995 in Kerrang! magazine.
No
Rain was #22 on MTV's Greatest Video Ever Made countdown at the end
of 1999.
Shannon's
death was voted 3rd most depressing thing to happen in music in 1995 in
Kerrang! magazine.
The
band was nominated for two Grammy Awards (Best Rock Performance and Best
New Artist) and one American Music Award in 1994 but failed to win either.
Shannon was arrested at this show for fighting with security.
The
band's long-form video, Letters From A Porcupine, was nominated
for a Grammy in 1997 but lost out to Alanis Morrisette.
The
video for Soul One was voted 14th best video of 1996 by MTV.
There
is a guitar autographed by the band in the Las Vegas and New Orleans Hard
Rock Cafe. Click HERE
to view Las Vegas.
They
appeared on the following television shows: Beavis and Butthead (video
for Galaxie), VH1's Pop Up Video (video for No Rain),
David Letterman show twice (performed Change in 1994 and Galaxie
in
1995), Saturday Night Live (performed No Rain with the Ripped
Away intro and Paperscratcher in 1994), Jon Stewart show (performed
Walk)
and hosted MTV's 120 Minutes in 1995.
In
September 2001, VH1 did a Behind the Music on Blind Melon.
The
band appeared on the following magazine covers: Rolling Stone, Creem,
Circus, Pollstar, The New Review of Records.
Shannon
was voted as one of the top ten Sexiest Rockers of 1994 in Playgirl magazine.
The
bee girl, Heather DeLoach, appears in the Weird Al Yankovic video of
Bedrock
Anthem (parody of Give it Away by the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
as the bee girl.
They
were voted Best Band of 1994 in the readers' poll of Rip Magazine.
Candy
Says appears on the soundtrack of the 1994 movie, The Cowboy Way,
starring
Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland. No Rain is played at
the end of the 1997 Howard Stern movie, Private Parts. Three
is a Magic Number is played during 1999 movie, Never Been Kissed,
starring Drew Barrymore and also played in the 2002 movie Slackers.
