Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers felt "distraught" when their last single failed to scrape into the U.K. top 40 chart.
The band's second release from their Postcards From A Young Man album hit stores in December (10).
But Some Kind of Nothingness, featuring Echo & the Bunnymen rocker Ian MCCulloch, was a commercial disappointment, entering the British singles chart at number 44 - marking the group's first top 40 failure since they signed to the Sony record label in 1991.
Bassist Nicky Wire admits he was deeply upset by the chart position, saying, "My excitement always turns into a real dose of fear when I'm waiting for a chart position or to find out whether the radio's going to play our record. It's like waiting for that envelope to drop through the door and see you've got a D in geography. I was quite distraught that Some Kind of Nothingness, our single, missed the Top 40. I was gutted."