Fleetwood Mac: after its 926 weeks on the chart, who’s still buying Rumours?

Editor Katie Watkins 10-2-2022

Fleetwood Mac released Rumours forty-five years ago this month, an album that combined some what gauzy soft pop, manicured folk and stormy rock with a soap-operatic level of intra-band strife.

Rumours won album of the year at the U.S. Grammys, achieved 20 times platinum status in the US alone.

What’s truly remarkable about this album is the album longevity , and how it continues to sell thousands of new physical copies each year, despite being available to stream.

According to the UK’s Official Charts Company, Rumours sold over 34,593 vinyl copies in 2021, third only to new albums by Adele and Abba, and beating new release by such artist as Ed Sheeran and Lana Del Rey.

Rumours also sold over 32,508 copies the previous year and is currently sitting at No 29 in its 926th week on the UK Official album chart, which is now up five places from the previous week.

While stateside Rumours sold over 6,000 vinyl copies in the last week of January 2022 hitting the No 1 spot on the vinyl albums chart.

It sold over 169,000 vinyl copies in the US year ending 2021 (according to MRC Data).

The album is so beautifully written and produced it's clear why the album is still as popular now with a new generation fans as was forty five years ago.

The albums is available to download from all online streaming site and all major Records shop

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