Which huge artists have had a 'Keep The Faith'?

Which artists flopped with a follow-up album after 2 huge selling albums in their home country, but that album became their biggest selling internationally?

In Europe & UK it was their biggest selling album at that point and also gave them their highest charting hit in the UK, and crucially got airplay on commercial radio stations which generally never played rawk acts, and the success of the album meant that they made the leap from arenas to selling out stadiums.

Are there other similar examples of this?

A follow-up thread to Every huge artist has their "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline

Was thinking of the blur self-titled album which didnt sell as much as the previous 2 in the UK but had success in the USA because of Song 2 but it wasn't exactly a flop in the UK.

Which huge artists have had a 'House Is Not for Sale,' is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. Released on November 4, 2016, by Island Records. It is their first studio album with Phil X on lead guitar after replacing founding member Richie Sambora in 2013, as well as the first album to feature bassist Hugh McDonald as an official member after having played with the band in a touring/session capacity since 1994.

In what sense was Keep the Faith the biggest-selling Bon Jovi album internationally? International sales figures I've seen don't support that. Even in the UK, Slippery When Wet was certified 3x platinum and New Jersey was certified 2x platinum on 01.08.1993, the same day Keep the Faith was certified platinum, based on the data here: https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/

Hard to come up with an exact equivalent for what is described in the OP but Saga's chart placements in Germany, Sweden, Norway, and Switzerland greatly eclipsed their peaks in Canada, based on this (idk how reliable): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_(band)#Discography

Any Canadian acts who had hit albums but had a flop that sold well in the US?

barenaked ladies maybe?

Nah, all their US hits were also Canadian hits.

Looks like Bossanova handily outcharted the first two Pixies records internationally -- maybe it sold a little better in the US too but I definitely think both Bossanova and Trompe were seen as flops by US fans at the time, maybe relative to expectations set by the first records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixies_discography

I always had the sense that they were more popular in the UK at the time but I didn't realize they were top 10 album material over there!

Which huge artists have had Paul Carrack in their band and then fired him because he was Paul Carrack

Billy Joel had a "Keepin' the Faith"

Is it too early to call this thread a New Jersey?

After his reasonably successful first few albums which all went Platinum, Weird Al Yankovic's Alapalooza only went Gold in the US, but it's somehow his best selling album in Canada; the only album to go 2x Platinum by Canadian standards.

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I wonder if it's mostly due that album getting a lot of promotion here in Canada, and it being one of the first times that he toured Canada extensively. Like that album did not get it's own Al-TV special, but it did get it's own Al-Music special.

Or maybe it's because a bunch of people mistakenly thought Headline News (his Crash Test Dummies parody) was on it?

Is it too early to call this thread a New Jersey?

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Definitely. I've never had two successful threads in a row.

No offence, it's just that the other thread went triple platinum, so hopes were high for this one.

ILM is full of one-hit wonders

Which huge artists have had a "Faith"? (member of popular two-person group where the other person doesn't really do anything, then goes solo and immediately has a hit single and is wearing jeans that show off their butt in the video)

There should be a "Post in this Thread When You Want to Start a New Thread, But Your Post Isn't Worthy of a New Thread" Thread.

Random thoughts not worthy of a whole thread

Which huge artists have had a "Stranger in This Town"--where the band got so big they took a break and even the guitarist got to make a solo album?

Which huge artists have had a "Busted Stuff", which is where the band records an album and two years later, dumps piss and shit on people on a boat?