Editing Drum and bass (section)

==Mainstream acceptance==
The earliest mainstream drum and bass releases include [[Goldie]]'s album ''[[Timeless (Goldie album)|Timeless]]'' from 1995. Other early examples include the [[Mercury Music Prize]]-winning album ''[[New Forms]]'' (1997) from Reprazent;<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/17/arts/the-pop-life-133671.html "The Pop Life"], ''The New York Times'', 17 September 1997.</ref> [[4hero]]'s Mercury-nominated ''[[Two Pages]]'' from 1998; and then, in the 2000s, [[Pendulum (drum and bass band)|Pendulum]]'s ''[[Hold Your Colour]]'' in 2005 (the best-selling drum and bass album).

In 2012, drum and bass achieved its first UK No. 1 single, "[[Hot Right Now]]", by [[DJ Fresh]], which was one of the fastest-selling singles of 2012 at the time of release, launching the career of [[Rita Ora]] in the process.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/hot-right-now/|title = Hot right now &#124; full Official Chart History &#124; Official Charts Company| website=[[Official Charts Company|Official Charts]] }}</ref>

Numerous video games (such as [[Hudson Soft]]'s ''[[Bomberman Hero]]'', [[Hi-Rez Studios]]' ''[[Tribes: Ascend]]'', [[Electronic Arts]]' ''[[Need for Speed: Undercover]]'', [[Rockstar Games]]' ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series, and Sony's ''[[Wipeout (video game series)|Wipeout]]'' series from ''[[Wipeout Pure|Pure]]'' onward) have contained drum and bass tracks.<ref name="Martinez 2023">{{cite news |last1=Martinez |first1=Jonas |title=An Ethnography of Jungle and DnB in 90s/00s Video Games |url=https://klangmag.co/an-ethnography-of-jungle-and-dnb-in-90s-00s-video-games/ |access-date=10 January 2024 |work=Klang Magazine |date=30 January 2023}}</ref><ref name="Ombler 2018">{{cite news |last1=Ombler |first1=Mat |title=Megadrive to Mega Hit: Why Video Games Are So Tied to Club Music |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/video-games-90s-club-music-commodore-amiga/ |access-date=10 January 2024 |work=[[Vice Magazine]] |date=29 October 2018}}</ref> [[Microsoft Studios]]' ''[[Forza (series)|Forza Horizon 2, 3, 4 and 5]]'' feature a Hospital Records radio channel dedicated to the genre.<ref name="Regan 2022">{{cite news |last1=Regan |first1=Tom |title=How D&B label Hospital Records became a 'Forza' mainstay |url=https://www.nme.com/features/gaming-features/how-scrappy-db-label-hospital-records-became-a-forza-mainstay-3130550 |access-date=9 January 2024 |work=NME |date=7 January 2022}}</ref>

The genre has some popularity in film soundtracks. Hive's "Ultrasonic Sound" appeared on ''[[The Matrix]]''{{'}}s soundtrack, and the [[E-Z Rollers]]' song "Walk This Land" appeared in the film ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Flemyng|first1=Jason|title=Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels|date=28 August 1998|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd|last2=Fletcher|last3=Moran|last4=Statham|first2=Dexter|first3=Nick|first4=Jason|access-date=15 February 2017}}</ref> Ganja Kru's "Super Sharp Shooter" can be heard in the 2006 film ''[[Johnny Was]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bejbzkxraay7fkyu24rg4rtn3fi|title=Various Artists: Johnny Was Motion Picture Soundtrack, Vol. 2. (Reggae from the Film) – Music on Google Play|website=play.google.com|access-date=16 January 2017}}</ref>

The Channel 4 show ''[[Skins (UK TV series)|Skins]]'' uses the genre in some episodes, notably in the [[Skins (series 1)|first series]]' third episode, "[[Jal (Skins series 1)|Jal]]", where Shy FX and UK Apache's "[[Original Nuttah]]" was played in Fazer's club.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tunefind.com/show/skins-uk/season-1/17522|title=Music from Skins (UK) S1E03|website=TuneFind|access-date=15 February 2017}}</ref>
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