Satellite is the fourth studio album by the nu metal band P.O.D. The album was released on September 11, 2001 debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart with over 133,000 copies sold. It spent five consecutive weeks in the top 10 of that chart.
It went on to sell over three million copies in the U.S., and over seven million worldwide, making it the band’s highest-selling album. Satellite was placed at No. 137 on the Billboard’s top 200 albums of the decade (2000–2009). It was the 117th best-selling album of 2001 and the 26th best-selling album of 2002 in the United States.
Satellite produced four singles with music videos; “Alive”, “Youth of the Nation”, “Boom”, and title track, “Satellite”.
“Alive” was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. Although not released as a single, “Portrait” was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 2003 Grammy Awards. “Youth of the Nation” also earned a nomination in 2003 for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Tracklist:
- Set It Off
- Alive
- Boom
- Youth of the Nation
- Celestial
- Satellite
- Ridiculous (featuring Eek-a-Mouse)
- The Messenjah
- Guitarras de Amor
- Anything Right (featuring Christian Lindskog)
- Ghetto
- Masterpiece Conspiracy
- Without Jah, Nothin” (featuring H.R.)
- Thinking About Forever
- Portrait
P.O.D.
P.O.D.: art direction
Sonny Sandoval: lead vocals
Marcos Curiel: guitar, backing vocals
Traa Daniels: bass, backing vocals
Wuv Bernardo: drums, backing vocals
Ridiculous
Eek-A-Mouse: additional vocals
Steve Russell: guitar tech, pre-production assistance
Anything Right
Christian Lindskog: additional vocals
Joel Derouin: violin
Larry Corbett: cello
Suzy Katayama: string arrangement and conducting
Youth of the Nation
D.J. Harper, Jonnie Hall, Colin Sasaki, Nils Montan, Laurie Schillinger, Meagan Moore, Ayanna Williams, Healey Moore: children’s choir
Bobbi Page: contractor
Miscellaneous
H.R.: vocals on “Without Jah, Nothin'”
Howard Benson: producer, keyboards and loops
Chris Lord-Alge: mixing at Image Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California
Randy Staub: engineering
Ted Jensen: mastering at Sterling Sound, Chelsea, New York
Eric Miller: assistant recording engineer
Chris “Sleepy J” Vaughan-Jones
Assistant engineers / Pro-Tools editors
Matt Silva and Steve Kaplan: assistant mix engineers
Duane Barron: additional assistant engineer
Bobby Brooks: additional assistant engineering, Pro-Tools editing
Jim Foster: Pro-Tools Editing
Technicians
Andres Torres: guitar tech
Gary Girsh: drum tech
Management
Martie Kolbl: project coordination
Craig Rosen: project administration
Artwork
Larry Freemantle: art direction
Jill Greenberg: photography
