Tragic Kingdom  by No Doubt

The band No Doubt had to enter eleven different studios in Los Angeles from March 1993 to October 1995 to complete the third album of their career titled Tragic Kingdom. The album was the last in which keyboardist Eric Stefani participated, as he left to start a career in television.

In this album, No Doubt combines pop music with ska punk or rather presents a record whose sound could be considered pop punk. The album's great success was Don't Speak, which dominated radios and clubs for the rest of the '90s. The producer of Tragic Kingdom was Matthew Wilder.

Tragic Kingdom became the biggest success as an album for the Californian band. The album's sales are estimated globally at around 16,000,000 copies. The album's course on the Billboard was unique. In January 1996, it entered at No.175 and gradually climbed to reach No.1 in December of the same year, where it went up and down at the top for nine non-consecutive weeks (!) The success was such that it "cultivated" a tendency for record companies in the following years to seek out bands that played ska, so they could sign contracts with them.