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Kid A debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart, and became Radiohead’s first number-one album on the Billboard 200 in the US, where it sold more than 207,000 copies in its first week.
After the stress of promoting Radiohead’s acclaimed 1997 album OK Computer, songwriter Thom Yorke wanted to diverge from rock music. Drawing influence from electronic music, ambient music, krautrock, jazz, and 20th-century classical music.