Empire (Queensrÿche album)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	(20th Anniversary Edition)^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]
Blogcritics	(20th Anniversary Edition)^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	D^[4]
PopMatters	(20th Anniversary Edition)^[5]
Q	^[6]
Record Collector	(20th Anniversary Edition)^[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[8]

Empire is the fourth full-length album by the American heavy metal band Queensrÿche, released on August 20, 1990. The album stands as Queensrÿche's most commercially successful release, reaching triple-platinum status^[9] and the single extracted, the power ballad "Silent Lucidity", reached No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[10] "Silent Lucidity" was also nominated for the Grammy Awards of 1992 in the categories Best Rock Song and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.^[11]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Best I Can"	Chris DeGarmo	5:30
2.	"The Thin Line"	DeGarmo, Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton	5:42
3.	"Jet City Woman"	DeGarmo, Tate	5:20

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
4.	"Della Brown"	DeGarmo, Scott Rockenfield, Tate	7:04
5.	"Another Rainy Night (Without You)"	DeGarmo, Eddie Jackson, Tate	4:44
6.	"Empire"	Tate, Wilton	5:07

Side three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"Resistance"	Tate, Wilton	4:47
8.	"Silent Lucidity"	DeGarmo	5:45
9.	"Hand on Heart"	DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton	5:30

Side four
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
10.	"One and Only"	DeGarmo, Wilton	5:52
11.	"Anybody Listening?"	DeGarmo, Tate	7:40

2003 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"Last Time in Paris"	DeGarmo, Tate	3:51
13.	"Scarborough Fair"	Traditional	3:51
14.	"Dirty Lil Secret"	DeGarmo, Tate	4:07

20th anniversary edition bonus disc (recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon, November 15, 1990)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Resistance"		4:33
2.	"Walk in the Shadows"	DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton	3:56
3.	"Best I Can"		5:16
4.	"Empire"		5:11
5.	"The Thin Line"		5:43
6.	"Jet City Woman"		5:30
7.	"Roads to Madness"	DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton	9:32
8.	"Silent Lucidity"		5:43
9.	"Hand on Heart"		5:17
10.	"Take Hold of the Flame"	DeGarmo, Tate, Wilton	5:10

Personnel

Band members

Geoff Tate - vocals, keyboards
Chris DeGarmo - 6 and 12 strings electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards on "Best I Can" and backing vocals, lead guitar on "Best I Can", "Jet City Woman", "Silent Lucidity", and "Anybody Listening"
Michael Wilton - 6 and 12 strings electric and acoustic guitars, lead guitar on "Empire", "Resistance", and "Another Rainy Night"
Eddie Jackson - bass guitars, backing vocals
Scott Rockenfield - drums, percussion

Additional musicians

Michael Kamen - orchestral arrangements, conductor
Randy Gane - message left on answering machine on "Empire"
Robert Bailey - keyboards, programming

Production

Peter Collins - producer
James Barton — engineer, mixing
Paul Northfield — engineer on track 6
Tom Hall — engineer on tracks 6, 13
Neil Kernon — engineer on track 13^[12]
Marcus Ramaer, Tom Hall, Dan Harjung - assistant engineers
Greenhouse Studios - recording and mixing studio, Vancouver, Canada
Bob Ludwig - mastering at Masterdisk, New York

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1990	Billboard 200 (USA)^[13]	7
	UK Albums Chart^[14]	13
	Norwegian Albums Chart^[15]	14
	Oricon Japanese Albums Charts^[16]	18
	Swiss Albums Chart^[17]	22
	Swedish Albums Chart^[18]	26
	Dutch Albums Chart^[19]	56
1991	RPM100 Albums (Canada)^[20]	18
1991	New Zealand Albums Chart^[21]	50
2010	German Albums Chart^[22]	22

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1990	"Best I Can"	Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks (USA)^[10]	28
	"Empire"	Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks^[10]	22
	"Empire"	UK Singles Chart^[23]	61
1991	"Silent Lucidity"	Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks^[10]	1
		Billboard Hot 100 (USA)^[10]	9
		RPM100 Hit Tracks (Canada)^[24]	9
		UK Singles Chart^[25]	18
		German Singles Chart^[26]	46
		Swiss Singles Chart^[27]	24
		GfK Dutch Charts^[28]	21
		New Zealand Singles Charts^[29]	11
	"Best I Can"	UK Singles Chart^[30]	36
	"Jet City Woman"	Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks^[10]	6
		RPM100 Hit Tracks (Canada)^[31]	92
		UK Singles Chart^[32]	39
	"Another Rainy Night (Without You)"	Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks^[10]	7
	"Another Rainy Night (Without You)"	RPM 100 Hit Tracks (Canada)^[33]	76
1992	"Anybody Listening?"	Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks^[10]	16

Certifications

Country	Organization	Year	Sales
USA	RIAA	1994	3× Platinum (+ 3,000,000)^[9]
Canada	CRIA	1991	Platinum (+ 100,000)^[34]
UK	BPI	1993	Silver (+ 60,000)^[35]

References

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