Want to Know Somthing Sad About Ozzy?

Actually there are proably a number of instances in Ozzy's career that are sad and disapointing, but today we're going to focus on Ozzy's singles career. As a solo artist and as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath Ozzy has sold over 100 million records worldwide, but outside the US Mainstream Rock Chart (where he has 18 Top 10 singles just as a solo artist), he's had little success with singles.

On the UK Singles Chart, Ozzy's highest ranking was 2003's "Changes" with his daughter Kelly. The song came out during the height of Ozzy's MTV reality show The Osbournes and......

Fucking Sucks. How the fuck did this song possibly get to #1, dear god there must have been a billion better songs out in 2003.It's pandering, boring, a reworking of a Black Sabbath song from Vol. 4 (sin), and features a woman who has no musical talent whatsoever. Really sad to hear the Pince of Darkness, one of the Fathers of Heavy Metal, putting out shit like this. Sight, and it's even sadder that it was successful. Luckily it was only #1 for a week, before mercifully being replaced by Michal Andrews and Gary Jules cover of Tears for Fears's "Mad World" for the Donnie Darko album. That is a trully fantastic song.

Great stuff. Anywho, the orignial version is a billion times better than the hack job Kelly and Ozzy threw together, and though it is currently Ozzy's only #1 UK single, it is also certainly one of (if not) worse songs. In is 2009 autobiography, Ozzy laments that his old Black Sabbath bandmates didn't call and congradulate him and Kelly on reaching #1, but hey Ozzy, they proably didn't call cause they couldn't pretend that shit was actually good; especially when it's a cover of a song they used to play on. "Changes" didn't chart at all in the US, though it did reach #15 in Germany and #26 in Sweden.


As a solo artist Ozzy's next highest UK single is a tie between 2001's "Gets Me Through" and 2002's "Dreamer" both off Down to Earth and both reaching #18. With Sabbath, "Paranoid" reached #4 on the UK Singles Chart 30 years earlier. On the US's Billboard 200, Ozzy's highest showing was also a duet, 1989's "Cloes My Eyes Forever" with Lita Ford.


Crazy Shit.