Human Clay is the second album by American rock band Creed, released on September 28, 1999 through Wind-Up Records. It was certified 11x platinum and Diamond by the RIAA, and is 54th on the top 100 selling albums of all time in the United States (as of February 2007). It ranks as the #8 best selling album of the last 20 years in the US. The album was the band's first to hit #1 in the U.S., where it debuted with first week sales of 315,000, and stayed on top for two weeks. As of May 2012, it has sold 11,579,000 copies in the United States alone, according to Soundscan numbers. It has also been certified 6 times platinum in Canada, 5 times in Australia[citation needed] and 7 times in New Zealand,[citation needed]and 4 times in Switzerland among others, selling an estimated 20 million copies worldwide. The fourth single "With Arms Wide Open" won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The album had three videos released from it: "Higher", "What If," and "With Arms Wide Open," the last of which was voted the 92nd best music video of all-time by VH1 who also ranked it #4 on the "25 Greatest Power Ballads". VH1 listed "Higher" as one of the greatest hard rock songs of all time in 2009. Human Clay is the only Creed album without a title track. According to Mark Tremonti, the album cover represents a crossroad which every man finds himself at in his life and the man of clay represented "our actions, that what we are is up to us, that we lead our own path and make our own destiny." The title of the album comes from a lyric in "Say I" ("The dust has finally settled on the field of human clay"), a song which carries the same message. This was the final album until 2009's Full Circle to feature Brian Marshall on bass guitar; he departed from the band shortly after the tour for the album in August 2000. Mark Tremonti filled as the bassist on their third album, Weathered, while Brett Hestla became their touring bassist. However, the band has since reunited with Marshall. Human Clay was ranked #5 on Billboard's 200 Albums of the Decade in 2009.The album has sold over 11.5 million copies in the United States and a total of 20 million worldwide, making it the best selling album of Creed's career and one of the best-selling albums in the United States it spent a record 104 weeks on the chart survey. The album was played in its entirety during Creed's April 2012 "2 NIGHTS" tour. Human Clay is the second album by American rock band Creed, released on September 28, 1999 through Wind-Up Records. It was certified 11x platinum and Diamond by the RIAA, and is 54th on the top 100 selling albums of all time in the United States (as of February 2007). It ranks as the #8 best selling album of the last 20 years in the US. The album was the band's first to hit #1 in the U.S., where it debuted with first week sales of 315,000, and stayed on top for two weeks. As of May 2012, it has sold 11,579,000 copies in the United States alone, according to Soundscan numbers. It has also been certified 6 times platinum in Canada, 5 times in Australia[citation needed] and 7 times in New Zealand,[citation needed]and 4 times in Switzerland among others, selling an estimated 20 million copies worldwide. The fourth single "With Arms Wide Open" won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The album had three videos released from it: "Higher", "What If," and "With Arms Wide Open," the last of which was voted the 92nd best music video of all-time by VH1 who also ranked it #4 on the "25 Greatest Power Ballads". VH1 listed "Higher" as one of the greatest hard rock songs of all time in 2009. Human Clay is the only Creed album without a title track. According to Mark Tremonti, the album cover represents a crossroad which every man finds himself at in his life and the man of clay represented "our actions, that what we are is up to us, that we lead our own path and make our own destiny." The title of the album comes from a lyric in "Say I" ("The dust has finally settled on the field of human clay"), a song which carries the same message. This was the final album until 2009's Full Circle to feature Brian Marshall on bass guitar; he departed from the band shortly after the tour for the album in August 2000. Mark Tremonti filled as the bassist on their third album, Weathered, while Brett Hestla became their touring bassist. However, the band has since reunited with Marshall. Human Clay was ranked #5 on Billboard's 200 Albums of the Decade in 2009.The album has sold over 11.5 million copies in the United States and a total of 20 million worldwide, making it the best selling album of Creed's career and one of the best-selling albums in the United States it spent a record 104 weeks on the chart survey. The album was played in its entirety during Creed's April 2012 "2 NIGHTS" tour. false 2025-11-08 06:29:10 1999 1999-01-01 1999-01-01 60 Alternative Rock 112321 2117580 04507621-7797-454c-b35d-07d522e49081 4b1a830b-0a1f-42e5-b8d5-1d6743912e99 1e3d8943-22c1-39b1-9b7c-32f594e30db8 /media/data/media5/Music/Creed/Human Clay/folder.jpg Creed Creed 1 1 04:45 1 2 05:18 1 3 04:19 1 4 05:15 1 5 04:19 1 6 05:59 1 7 04:51 1 8 04:34 1 9 05:16 1 10 06:04 1 11 05:48 1 12 03:55 Creed is an American rock band from Tallahassee, Florida, formed in 1994. For most of its existence, the band consisted of lead vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist and vocalist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, and drummer Scott Phillips. Creed released two studio albums, My Own Prison in 1997 and Human Clay in 1999, before Marshall left the band in 2000. The band's third album, Weathered, was released in 2001, with Tremonti on bass guitar. Creed disbanded in 2004; Stapp pursued a solo career while Tremonti, Marshall, and Phillips founded the band Alter Bridge with Myles Kennedy. In 2009, Creed reunited for a fourth album, Full Circle, then toured until 2012. Since then, Creed has been on hiatus while the instrumental members have remained active with Alter Bridge; Stapp has continued his solo career and joined the band Art of Anarchy in 2016. Tremonti also formed his own band, Tremonti, in 2011. Creed is one of the prominent acts of the post-grunge movement that began in the mid-1990s. Becoming popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Creed released three consecutive multi-platinum albums, with their album Human Clay being certified diamond. Creed has sold over 28 million records in the United States, has sold over 53 million albums worldwide, and was the ninth best-selling artist of the 2000s. However, Creed has been negatively received by some critics and listeners; readers of Rolling Stone magazine ranked the band the worst artist of the 1990s.