During the spring of 1993, the song “What’s Up?” became a huge call-in request across the United States and it’s popularity launched us to international fame.
4 Non Blondes toured the world, opening for such rock legends as Aerosmith, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, and Prince and performed live on television shows including The Dave Letterman show, The Late Show with Conan O’Brien, Arsenio Hall, The Billboard Music Awards, MTV’s Beach House, Jon Stewart’s pilot show on MTV, the E Channel, and England’s Top of the Pops (2x).
In 1993, the band was nominated for an MTV video award in the category of alternative rock, and nominated for Best New Band in Rolling Stone Magazine Reader’s Pole (singer Linda Perry did win the award for Best New Female Singer).
Other recordings included a jingle for Levi Strauss, the song “Misty Mountain Hop” for the Led Zeppelin tribute Encomium recording, and “Bless the Beasts and the Children” for a Carpenters tribute album. We did soundtrack recordings for the movies Wayne World 2 (“Mary’s House”) and Airheads (“I’m The One”).
Bigger, Better, Faster, More! climbed up the Billboard Charts during the summer of 1993, peaking at #11 on the U.S. Billboard album chart and achieving multi-platinum sales.
Bigger, Better, Faster, More! reached the #1 chart position in Austria (platinum), Germany (platinum), Netherlands (gold), Norway (gold), Sweden (gold), Switzerland (gold) and Mexico (gold). It reached #4 in the UK and in Australia and cracked the top ten in New Zealand. We also received gold status in Italy and Portugal.
The single What’s Up? reached #14 in the U.S., #2 in Australia, the UK and New Zealand, #3 in France, and took the #1 spot in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Switzerland.