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N*E*R*D (an acronym of No-One Ever Really Dies) is an American rock, funk, and hip hop band. Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo weresignedby
Teddy Riley to Virgin Records as a duo, The Neptunes. After producing songs for several artists throughout the late 1990s and early2000s,the
production duo formed the band with Shay Haley as a side project of The Neptunes in 2001. N*E*R*D's debut album, In Search
Of...,sold603,000 copies in the United States and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was also
awardedthesecond annual Shortlist Music Prize. The b ...read more
N*E*R*D (an acronym of No-One Ever Really Dies) is an American rock, funk, and hip hop band. Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo weresignedby
Teddy Riley to Virgin Records as a duo, The Neptunes. After producing songs for several artists throughout the late 1990s and early2000s,the
production duo formed the band with Shay Haley as a side project of The Neptunes in 2001. N*E*R*D's debut album, In Search
Of...,sold603,000 copies in the United States and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was also
awardedthesecond annual Shortlist Music Prize. The band's second album, Fly or Die, sold 412,000 copies in the United States, but shipped at
least500,000units making it certifying it Gold.
In 2005, N*E*R*D ended their contract with Virgin and disbanded. Three years later, the band reunited under Star Trak
Entertainment,asubsidiary of Interscope Records established by Williams and Hugo. The band's third album, Seeing Sounds, released in 2008,
sold justunder80,000 copies in its first week. The album was followed by Nothing released in 2010.
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