Bizarre Fruit is the third album by the British dance band M People. It was released on 14 November 1994 and charted and peaked at number 4, spending one year on the chart before an expanded version of the album, Bizarre Fruit II, was released a year later. In 1996 it was announced that Bizarre Fruit had reached 1.1 million copies sold worldwide and was certified 3x Platinum in the UK.[1]
The album's two most popular singles were "Sight for Sore Eyes", which reached No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart and "Search for the Hero", which peaked at No. 9 on the same chart. Other singles released from this album were "Open Your Heart" (#9), "Love Rendezvous" (#32) and "Itchycoo Park" (#11) from the re-released album. In the US, remixes for the song "Padlock" were supplied to club DJs and appeared as the B-side to the CD maxi single of "Search for the Hero". The track reached No. 13 on the Billboard Dance Charts.[2]