  Dido's history with music came
early while growing up in London with
studying at the Guildhall School of Music in
London and playing numerous instruments by
the time she turned 10 years of age. In her
teens, Dido sang with various groups and
eventually teamed up with her brother,
Rollo's band Faithless. She toured with the
band for 2 years in the mid-90s. Dido had
also worked as a literary agent and attended
law school. Dido's musical success would
eventually grow as one of her songs is used
as the theme song for the WB TV show Roswell and another is
featured in the film Sliding
Doors and sampled on a
popular rapper's LP.
 Dido met with Arista Record's
Clive Davis which eventually led an audition
and a record contract. Her first recording
came in the form of an EP titled The
Highbury Fields.
Dido could be heard on the
soundtrack for Sliding
Doors with "Thankyou". The track was
used again for the HBO film If
These Walls Could Talk 2.
Exposure to Dido's music came
with touring various-sized venues and a stint
with the Lilith Fair tour. Dido's song "Here With Me" was used as the
theme song for WB's television show Roswell.
 Dido released her debut LP No
Angel - Interview magazine
said of the LP "...(it) feels just about
perfect."
 # 49
Singles Artist of the Year
Eminem released The
Marshall Mathers LP with some critics
hailing the LP as genius and often pointing
out his track "Stan" which sampled
Dido's song "Thankyou." Dido talked to
MTV about the pairing: "I got this
letter out of the blue one day. It said 'We
like your album, we've used this track. Hope
you don't mind, and hope you like it.' When
they sent it to me and I played it in my
hotel room, I was like, 'Wow! This track's
amazing'."
 The combination of radio
stations gradually adding "Here With Me" and the exposure
from Eminem's controversial LP
helped Dido's sound become more recognizable.
No
Angel was certified gold.
Dido hit the Top 40 with "Here With Me."
Dido began touring the U.S. and
opened for a few Sting concerts.
 Dido hit the Top 10 with "Here With Me" and hit the Top
40 with "Stan" (as featured
with Eminem and from his The
Marshall Mathers LP).
No
Angel was certified platinum.
 # 14
Singles Artist of the Year
 Dido hit the Top 40 with "Thankyou."
No
Angel was certified 2x platinum and
hit the US Top 10 LP charts.
No
Angel topped the UK Albums chart for
7 weeks.
Dido hit the Top 10 with "Thankyou."
Dido was nominated for a Brit
Award for Best British Female Solo Artist.
No
Angel was certified 3x platinum.
"Thankyou" topped the
Billboard Adult Top 40 chart for 9 weeks and
the video topped the VH-1 Video countdown.
Dido was nominated for a
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite
Female - New Artist.
"Thankyou" topped the
charts in Canada.
Dido topped the Billboard Adult
Contemporary chart for 4 weeks with "Thankyou."
No
Angel was certified 4x platinum.
Dido hit the Top 40 with "Hunter."
Dido toured North America during
the summer and will begin work on her next LP
later in the year.
Dido topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Thankyou."
Dido topped the Billboard Dance
Music Club Play chart for a week with "Thankyou."
Dido's video for "Thankyou" was nominated
for a MTV Video Music
Awards for Best Female Video and her work on Eminem's video for "Stan" was nominated
for 5 MTV Video Music
Awards including Video of the Year, Best Male Video, Best Rap Video, Best Direction (Dr.
Dre
& Philip Atwell), and Best Cinematography (Dakek Wolski).
Dido won a MTV Europe Music
Awards for Best New Act and was nominated for
Best Female Act and Best Album (No
Angel).
No
Angel was the #1 LP in the UK for the
year.
Dido won 2 Brit Awards for Best
British Female and Best British Album.
Dido topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Music Club Play chart for a week with
"Take My Hand (Remixes) and the
Billboard Maxi-Singles Sales chart for a week
with "Thankyou."
Dido won 3 World Music Awards
for World's Best-Selling British Artist,
World's Best-Silling Pop Female Artist, and
World's Best-Selling Adult Contemporary
Artist.
"Thankyou" was honored at
the ASCAP Pop Music Awards as Song of the
Year.
Dido was featured on Santana's next LP, Shaman, on the track
"Feels Like Fire."
 # 51
Singles Artist of the Year
 Dido hit the Top 40 with "White Flag."
Dido released Life
For Rent.
Dido topped the Billboard Top
Internet Albums chart for a week and UK LP
charts for 10 weeks with Life
For Rent.
Dido won a World Music
Award for Best British Pop/Rock Female
Artist.
 Dido hit the Top 10 with "White Flag."
Life
For Rent was certified platinum.
 # 133
Singles Artist of the Year
Dido topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Music Club Play for a week with the
Deep Dish Remix of "Stoned."
Dido was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("White Flag").
Dido won 2 Brit Awards for Best
British Single ("White Flag") and Best
British Female Solo Artist.
 Dido won a World Music Award for
UK's Best-Selling Artist.
The single "White Flag" was certified
gold.
Dido could be heard on the
soundtrack for Bridget
Jones - The Edge Of Reason with Rufus
Wainwright on "I Eat
Dinner."
Dido topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Music Club Play chart for a week with
the remixes of "Sand In My Shoes."
Dido topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Hot Adult
Contemporary Artist and with the Top Hot
Adult Contemporary Track ("White Flag").
# 232 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 Dido released the DVD Dido:
Live.
Life
For Rent was certified 2x platinum.
On July 2nd, Dido performed in
London and Paris, as part of the worldwide Live
8 concerts. The mission of the
concerts was to raise awareness of the
on-going poverty in Africa and to pressure
the G8 leaders to take action by doubling
aid, canceling debt, and delivering trade
justice for Africa.
 The single "Thankyou" was certified
gold.
Dido released Safe
Trip Home.
 Dido could be heard on the Sex
And The City 2 soundtrack with
"Everything To Lose."
Dido released Girl
Who Got Away.
Dido released Greatest
Hits.
iTunes
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No Angel
Released: June, 1999
US: 4x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 4
Tracks: "Here With Me" - "Hunter" -
"Don't Think of Me" - "My
Lover's Gone" - "All You
Want" - "Thankyou" -
"Honestly OK" -
"Slide" - "Isobel" -
"I'm No Angel" - "My
Life" - "Take My Hand" |
iTunes
Amazon.mp3 |
Life For Rent
Released: September, 2003
US: 2x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 4
Rolling Stone
review: 
Tracks: "White Flag" -
"Stoned" - "Life For
Rent" - "Mary's In India"
- "See You When You're 40" -
"Don't Leave Home" - "Who
Makes You Feel" - "Sand In My
Shoes" - "Do You Have A Little
Time" - "This Land Is
Mine" - "See The Sun" |
iTunes
Amazon.mp3 |
Safe Trip Home
Released: November, 2008
Billboard
peak:
# 13
Rolling Stone:  - Entertainment
Weekly: B
Tracks: "Don't
Believe In Love" - "Quiet
Times" - "Never Want To Say
It's Love" - "Grafton
Street" - "It Comes And It
Goes" - "Look No Further"
- "Us 2 Little Gods" -
"The Day Before The Day" -
"Let's Do The Thing We Normally
Do" - "Burnin Love" -
"Northern Skies" |
Amazon.mp3 |
Girl Who Got
Away
Released: March 26, 2013
Billboard
peak:
# 32
Entertainment
Weekly: B
Tracks: "No
Freedom" - "Girl Who Got
Away" - "Let Us Move On"
(featuring Kendrick Lamar) -
"Blackbird" - "End Of
Night" - "Sitting On The Roof
Of The World" - "Love To
Blame" - "Go Dreaming" -
"Happy New Year" -
"Loveless Hearts" - "Day
Before We Went To War" - "Let
Us Move On" - "All I See"
- "Just Say Yes" - "Let's
Run Away" - "Everything To
Lose" - "Lost" |
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Greatest Hits
Released: November 25, 2013
Tracks: "Here With Me" - "Thankyou" - "Hunter" - "White Flag' - "Life For
Rent" - "Don't Leave Home"
- "Sand In My Shoes" -
"Don't Believe In Love" -
"Quiet Times" - "Grafton
Street" - "Everything To
Lose" - "Let Us Move One"
- "No Freedom" - "End Of
Night" - "One Step Too
Far" - "Stan" - "If I
Rise" - "NYC" |
iTunes
Amazon.mp3
vinyl |
Still On My Mind
Released: March 9, 2019
Tracks:
"Hurricanes" - "Give You
Up" - "Hell After This" -
"You Don't Need A Goal" -
"Take You Home" - "Some
Kind Of Love" - "Still ON My
Mind" - "Mad Love" -
"Walking By" -
"Friends" - "Chances"
- "Have To Stay" |
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40 chart run (from the ARC Weekly Top
40)
and LP links take you to Amazon.com for that LP (often
including track listings and sound
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