Rumours

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ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2020". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 15 January 2021. By 1980, 13 million copies of Rumours had been sold worldwide. [90] As of 2017, sales were over 40 million copies. [91] [51] As of October 2019 [update], Rumours has spent 800 weeks in the UK Top 100 album chart and is the 11th-best-selling album in UK history and is certified 14×platinum by the British Phonographic Industry, the equivalent of 4.2 million units shipped. [87] The record has received a Diamond Award from the Recording Industry Association of America for a 20×platinum certification or 20million copies shipped, making it, as of 2021 [update], tied for the eleventh highest certified album in US history (by number of copies shipped). [92] Rumours was the UK's bestselling album on vinyl during 2020, with the Official Charts Company confirming 32,500 annual sales in the format. [93] Legacy [ edit ] Walsh, Christopher (23 December 2000). "Surround-Sound Demonstrations Impress Confab Attendees". Billboard. p.44.

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Recorded with the intention of making "a pop album" that would expand on the commercial success of their self-titled 1975 album, the music of Rumours is characterized by a mix of electric and acoustic instrumentation, accented rhythms, guitars, and keyboards, while its lyrics concern personal and often troubled relationships. Its release was postponed by delays in the mixing process. Following the album's release, Fleetwood Mac undertook worldwide concert tours. Rumours became the band's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart and also topped the US Billboard 200. The songs " Go Your Own Way", " Dreams", " Don't Stop", and " You Make Loving Fun" were released as singles, all of which reached the US top 10, with "Dreams" reaching number one. a b c d e Crowe, Cameron (24 March 1977). "The True Life Confessions of Fleetwood Mac". Rolling Stone. No.235. ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2021". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 13 January 2022.Walsh, Barry (19 April 2004). "Fleetwood Mac: Rumours". Slant Magazine . Retrieved 28 December 2009. Brunner, Rob (18 April 2003). "Then Play On; Bare Trees; Fleetwood Mac; Rumours; Tusk; Time". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 11 October 2020.

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Raoul Hernandez. "Fleetwood Mac: Rumours Deluxe Edition." (review). The Austin Chronicle. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2023. The final results were pure perfection, except for one problem. “When Lindsey went to sing, he realized that he played all of his guitar parts in the wrong key. Oh, man! So we recorded everything all over again the next day, dispensing with the changing of guitar strings – we had to lose all of that so we could get Lindsey singing in the right key.”Gurza, Agustin (14 May 1977). "Number One With a Star: The Inside Of Making a Hit Record". Billboard. p.40. When studying the recording of Rumours, it’s impossible to avoid the topic of rampant cocaine use. Fleetwood famously worked out that if he laid all of the cocaine he had ever snorted into a single line, it was stretch for seven miles. “The tales of excess are true, but we’d all be dead already if we weren’t made of stronger stuff,” he wrote in Play On. Rather than drown the melody with a full-band treatment, Caillat decided to try a stripped-down approach. “Before Rumours, I had recorded an album with Joni Mitchell at the Berkeley Community Theatre,” he told Music Radar. “I thought doing a similar kind of concert recital recording was perfect for ‘Songbird.’ Christine and the whole band loved the idea.”