The ‘Alannah Myles’ first self titled album, initially released in Canada in the spring of 1989 where it produced four Top 40 hits, “Love Is”, “Black Velvet”, “Lover of Mine”, and “Still Got This Thing”.
Released internationally in 1990, Atlantic records finally hit pay dirt with her number one international smash, “Black Velvet”, winning a Grammy award for best female rock performance, a Diamond award for sales in excess of over one million – the only artist in Canada who retains this status for a debut record. After it’s first year of release Black Velvet received the ASCAP award for over one million radio plays and the ASCAP ‘Millionaire Award’ in 2005 for over 5 million radio plays.
Her follow-up multi-platinum album, Rockinghorse (1992) received another Grammy nod for Best Female Rock Vocalist. After the sale of over eight million records and 3 albums she concluded her alliance with Atlantic Records (WMG) and released her fourth record A Rival (1997) on Ark 21 Records which had the top 40, hit Bad 4 You. ‘The Very Best Of Alannah Myles (1999) was released on WMC and internationally on Ark 21/EMI, and re-released as ‘Myles & More’ (2000) containing hits from all four albums.
After a tenure of songwriting Alannah re-released'85 BPM' containing 15 studio recordings along with 3 versions of 'Black Velvet' including a remake of her radio classic. Executive produced by Alannah Myles for Fascinate inc. Co-produced by Mike Borkosky in Toronto, Veronica Ferraro in Paris France, distributed internationally by Tunecore.com featuring a black torso cover image photographed by Deborah Samuel.
Master recordings from Alannah's 1997 release, 'A Rival' CD are distributed by Tunecore.com available in all online digital stores worldwide..