In 2000, the band received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection.
" Our House" was their biggest US hit, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Madness have had 15 singles reach the UK top ten, including " One Step Beyond", " Baggy Trousers" and " It Must Be Love", one UK number-one single " House of Fun" and two number ones in Ireland, "House of Fun" and " Wings of a Dove". ( UB40 shared the same number of weeks, the largest for any British group in the decade, but over a longer period.) Madness's most successful period was from 1980 to 1986, when the band's songs spent a total of 214 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. One of the most prominent bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s two-tone ska revival, they continue to perform with six of the seven members of their original line-up. Madness are an English ska and pop band from Camden Town, North London, who formed in 1976.
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