Next, spend millions of dollars grooming the star-to-be, grab the right songs, outfits and clubs to play until the first album.
"Songs of Patience" is the first album they've cut from scratch: "Broken Side of Time" included two songs from a prior EP.
The most improbable move for Premier Cru was Katsiris' decision to make the first album an old-fashioned vinyl record, instead of a CD.
The first album will be a mixture of two or three hymns, as well as classical music including Ave Maria, and songs he described as "inspirational".
The first Montrose album was the first album I ever recorded and it still stands as one of the best recordings I have ever been a part of.
The album was produced by Dan Grech, who has worked with The Vaccines and Radiohead, and is the first album that the band have recorded as a four-piece.
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It was the first rap group to have a Top 10 album on the pop charts, the first to have a gold and platinum album, and the first nominated for a Grammy.
Having brought jazz into the mainstream, he then transformed it, with innovative new rhythms on albums like Time Out -- the first jazz album to ever sell more than a million copies and still one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time.
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Records, Ted Templeman producing, and the first Montrose album was born a month after that.
And I like - this is the first Coldplay album that I actually genuinely like a little bit.
On my 65th, on October 13th, I was planning on coming out with Montrose, doing the whole first album, then going in with my other band, and then bringing Chickenfoot out.
"21's" midway-point sales figures also mark another first in the SoundScan era -- it's the first time just one album has sold over a millioncopies in the year's first six months.
Rather than do a reading, Jones improvised and sang "Nobody Knows My Name, " which eventually became the first track on the album.
She recently took part in a re-recording of The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, performing the track A Taste of Honey to mark the album's 50th anniversary.
The singer's first album in a decade became the fastest-selling of the year earlier this week.
While I have been a fan since the beginning, I knew immediately when I first heard the album The Golden Hour that it was special, and was sure to be one of my top albums of 2008.
The prize came almost 50 years to the day since he produced the Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, in a single 10-hour session at Abbey Road Studios.
Sir Paul McCartney's Kisses on the Bottom record was named best traditional pop vocal album, while The Beach Boys won best historical album, their first ever Grammy, for The Smile Sessions.
Two weeks before the scheduled release of his first retail album, "Channel Orange, " the singer published a message online that described a "first love" he had with a man.
"Country Girl, " the first single off Palmer's self-titled 2007 debut album, made her the first African-American female in 20 years to hit Billboard's country chart, according to Country Music Television.
It makes sense that Bachmann's remarkable new To the Races marks his first conventional album as a solo act: Shedding the prickly remoteness that has made him an acquired taste, he crafts a spare collection that pairs his gruff, world-weary lyrics with a newfound approachability.
In the case of Birdlips' first album, that place is Europe, but not the crowded streets of its inhabitants.
The country's largest independent record label has just released its first album in the United States, by a band called Rebuilding the Rights of Statues.
When the Montreal rock group The Arcade Fire released its first album, 2004's near-universally loved Funeral, the band became an overnight indie-rock titan.
His first studio album, Back for the First Time, sold 133, 000 copies in its opening week in 2000, eventually moving more than 3 million units.
In 1957, he became the first artist to release a full album on the influential Sun record label, beating Elvis Presley.
This time, "the plot, " as Lupe calls it, is to release the album's first installment in September and the sequel in early 2013, with several singles hitting airwaves along the way.
Legal UK sales of his album in the first half of 2012 hit the 448, 000 mark - making it the fourth most popular album behind releases from Adele, Emeli Sande and Lana Del Rey.
That tradition continues on Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire, the band's first album in four years.
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