It is currently certified 6x Platinum in Australia.Ĥ.Ĕ:27 I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be) Grace re-entered the albums chart in Australia at number 44 for the week of January 29 to Febru– 13 years after its original release date. An extended version of the album (subtitled "Legacy Edition" celebrating its tenth anniversary was released on August 24, 2004, and it peaked at #44 in the UK. While the album initially had poor sales, peaking at #149 in the U.S., and received mixed reviews, it gradually acquired critical and popular acclaim and has now sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Grace is the only complete studio album by Jeff Buckley, released on August 23, 1994.
Buckley and his work remain popular and are regularly featured in 'greatest' lists in the music press. Chart success also came posthumously with Leonard Cohen's song, "Hallelujah" he attained his first #1 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs in March 2008 and reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart in Christmas 2008. Since his death, there have been many posthumous releases of his material, including a collection of four-track demos and studio recordings for his unfinished second album My Sweetheart the Drunk and expansions of debut album Grace and his Live at Sin-é EP. While awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim - fully clothed - in the Wolf River, when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record his second album in New York with Tom Verlaine as producer. Over the following two years, the band toured widely to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace. After a decade as a guitarist-for-hire in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (Novem– May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Jeff Buckley - Studio Discography (1994 - 1998)