• The Last Broadcast

    Artwork by Rick Myers

  • Details

    Released: April 29th 2002

    Produced by: Doves, Steve Osborne, Max Heyes

    Label: Heavenly

    Tracklist

    1. Intro
    2. Words
    3. There Goes The Fear
    4. M62 Song
    5. Where We’re Calling From
    6. N.Y.
    7. Satellites
    8. Friday’s Dust
    9. Pounding
    10. Last Broadcast
    11. The Sulphur Man
    12. Caught By The River

    Initial North American copies included a bonus disc featuring the following tracks:

    Hit The Ground Running
    Far From Grace
    Northenden
    Willow Song

  • Chart History

    Highest UK Chart Position: 1. Doves first UK number one selling 52,000 copies.

    The Last Broadcast spent six weeks in the UK album chart.

    Week 2: 1 – 22,437 copies The lowest tally for a number 1 album.
    Week 3: 9
    Week 4: 18
    24 Aug 2002: Re-Entry 31
    31 Aug 2002: 36

  • Interviews

    Guardian.co.uk (Jimi)

  • Newsbite

    Appearances can be deceptive. Anyone who noted the record 3-34 tumble made by Doves' single There Goes The Fear last week, and its further decline to number 70 this week, would imagine they were a cult, fanbase act with no album potential. They would be wrong. The main reason for the rapid fade of There Goes The Fear was the fact it was a limited edition, which was deleted on release date. If the idea was to drive sales of their album The Last Broadcast, it seems to have worked -- the album debuts at number one this week, with sales of more than 52,000 helping a market where the previous week's number one sold a five-year low tally of less than 24,000. The Doves only previous album, Lost Souls, was released two years ago, peaked at number 16 and sold 128,000 units.

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