[1] Placebo's next studio album, 1998's Without You I'm Nothing, peaked at number seven in both the UK and France.

[1][2][3][4] Placebo continued their chart success with the album Sleeping with Ghosts in 2003.

[7] In 2004, they released a compilation album, Once More with Feeling: Singles 1996–2004, that peaked at number eight in the UK.

[1] Placebo's fifth studio album, Meds, was released in 2006 and topped the charts in Austria, France, and Switzerland.

[2][4][5] Their sixth studio album, Battle for the Sun, was released in 2009 and topped the charts in Austria, France, Germany, and Switzerland; it was the band's fourth consecutive album to peak at number one in France.