Oceanic (band)

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
That album by Oceanic
  UK 49 07/04/1992 (2 weeks)
Singles
Insanity
  UK 3 
silver
silver
08/24/1991 (15 weeks)
Wicked Love
  UK 25th 11/30/1991 (5 weeks)
Controlling Me
  UK 14th 06/13/1992 (5 weeks)
Ignorance (with Siobhan Maher)
  UK 72 11/14/1992 (1 week)

Oceanic was a British dance project by producers Dave Harry and Frank Crofts. The trio was completed by the singer Jorinde Williams.

biography

After the two studio owners Harry and Crofts had already worked together for a number of years, they formed the dance band Oceanic in Liverpool in the early 1990s . With the single Insanity in August 1991 the first and biggest hit, which made it to number 3 in the English charts . The song is among the top five best-selling singles in the UK in 1991. A quarter of a year later, the single Wicked Love rose to number 25 on the UK charts.

The trio continued successfully in 1992. The third chart single, Controlling Me , climbed into the UK Top 20 in June and reached number 14. Shortly afterwards, in July of that year, That Album by Oceanic , the band's only album , made it to the UK charts, but stayed there only two weeks and didn't get past 49th place.

With the release of Ignorance , a collaboration with the Liverpool singer-songwriter Siobhan Maher, the project entered the UK charts for the last time, but only for one week at number 72. The last single, Celebration , was ignored in 1993. The Oceanic project was then terminated.

Discography

album

  • 1992: That Album by Oceanic

Singles

  • 1991: Insanity
  • 1991: Wicked Love
  • 1992: Controlling Me
  • 1992: Ignorance (with Siobhan Maher)
  • 1993: Celebration

swell

  1. ↑ a b UK chart data
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ^ Hit Records, British Chart Singles on CD-ROM, Taurus Press

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