Fleetwood Mac Among The Best Selling Artists on Vinyl in 2023

Fleetwood Mac was the 9th best selling artist on vinyl in the US in 2023, with 357,000 albums sold.  Of the 357,000, 206,000 were "Rumours".

TOP 10-BEST SELLING ARTISTS ON VINYL

1. Taylor Swift: 3.484 million copies sold on vinyl in the US. She was the best selling artist on the format, with 1 out of every 15 vinyl purchases. 7% of the industry on the format.

2. Lana Del Rey: 646,000 copies sold.

3. Tyler, the Creator: 552,000 copies sold.

4. Travis Scott: 474,000 copies sold.

5. Olivia Rodrigo: 408,000 copies sold.

6. Kendrick Lamar: 382,000 copies sold.

7. Metallica: 378,000 copies sold.

8. The Beatles: 373,000 copies sold.

9. Fleetwood Mac: 357,000 copies sold.

10. Mac Miller: 354,000 copies sold.

TOP 10-SELLING VINYL ALBUMS OF 2023 IN U.S.

1. Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (1.014 million)

2. Taylor Swift, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (510,000)

3. Taylor Swift, Midnights (492,000)

4. Travis Scott, Utopia (373,000)

5. Taylor Swift, Folklore (308,000)

6. Olivia Rodrigo, Guts (267,000)

7. Taylor Swift, Lover (256,000)

8. Lana Del Rey, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (215,000)

9. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (206,000)

10. Lana Del Rey, Born To Die (192,000)

Fleetwood Mac on the charts this week January 19, 2024

Billboard Top 200:

#37  Rumours Fleetwood Mac

#177 Greatest Hits ‒ Fleetwood Mac

Top 100 Album Sales (pure album sales)

#17 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Top 25 Vinyl Albums Chart

#11 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Top 100 Canadian Albums Chart

#30 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

UK Top 100 Albums Chart

#11 Fleetwood Mac ~ 50 Years: Don't Stop

#23 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours

UK Top 40 Vinyl Albums chart

#7  Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours

#31 Fleetwood Mac ~ Greatest Hits

UK Top 100 Singles Chart

#89  Fleetwood Mac ~ Everywhere

#100 Fleetwood Mac ~ Dreams

Scotland Top 100 Albums Chart

#9  Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours

#55 Fleetwood Mac ~ Greatest Hits

Ireland Top 100 Albums Chart

#5  Fleetwood Mac ~ 50 Years: Don't Stop

#14 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours

Australia's Top 50 Albums

#29 Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours

Fleetwood Mac owns 2 spots on UK Top 40 Albums of 2023

The UK’s Top 40 albums of 2023 have been announced. 

Fleetwood Mac owns 2 spots: 

#6 - "50 YEARS: DON'T STOP" & 

#22 - "Rumours" 

"Rumours" also snags 5th in vinyl sales!

Fleetwood Mac Billboard Year-End Charts 2023

Billboard Magazine recently published its 2023 year end charts and Fleetwood Mac is all over the place showing up on multiple charts. Mostly for "Rumours", but still for an album over 45 years old, this is pretty impressive!

#1 - Billboard 200 Artists - Duo/Group

#2 - Top Rock Albums Artists

#3 - Top Rock Albums - “Rumours”

#3 - Rock Streaming Songs - “Dreams”

#3 - Rock Digital Song Sales Artists

#3 - Top Artists - Duo / Group

#3 - Top Rock & Alternative Albums Artist

#3 - Catalog Albums - “Rumours”

#4 - Top Rock & Alternative Albums - “Rumours”

#4 - Rock Streaming Songs Artists

#5 - Vinyl Albums - “Rumours”

#6 - Top Rock Artists

#6 - Catalog Artists

#10 - Rock Digital Song Sales - “Everywhere”

#11 - Rock Digital Song Sales - “Dreams”

#11 - Top Rock & Alternative Artists

#12 - Top Album Sales Artist

#16 - Tastemakers Albums - “Rumours”

#25 - Billboard 200 Albums - “Rumours”

#28 - Top Rock Albums - “Greatest Hits”

#29 - Top Rock & Alternative Albums - “Greatest Hits”

#31 - Top Canadian Albums - “Rumours”

#36 - Rock Streaming Songs - “The Chain”

#52 - Top Artists

#135 - Billboard 200 Albums - “Greatest Hits”

Vinyl Me Please releases exclusive versions of Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night and Mirage

Vinyl Me Please releases exclusive versions of Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night and Mirage on forest green and plum galaxy vinyl. The expected release date for both is early February. Members and non-members can pre-order now at vinylmeplease.com

This bundle includes VMP exclusive reissues of Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night and Mirage.

Tango In The Night is Fleetwood Mac's fourteenth studio album featuring iconic tracks like "Big Love," "Seven Wonders," "Little Lies" and "Everywhere." A volume of incredible synth-pop from the band originally released in 1987.

The VMP exclusive version of Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night is pressed on 180g Forest Green Galaxy vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 1LP will arrive in a single, tip-on, foil-stamped jacket with a lyric insert. It was mastered from the original master tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

Mirage, the soft rock follow up to its more experimental predecessor, Tusk, is the thirteenth studio album from Fleetwood Mac and features "Gypsy," "Can't Go Back," "Hold Me" and "Oh Diane."

The VMP exclusive version of Fleetwood Mac's Mirage is pressed on 180g Plum Galaxy vinyl at GZ Vinyl. The 1LP will arrive in a single, tip-on, foil-stamped jacket with a lyric insert. The lacquers were cut from the master tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound.

Fleetwood Mac Bundle

$80 NON-MEMBER PRICE -OR- $69 MEMBER PRICE

Also offered to buy separately 

Mirage

FLEETWOOD MAC

$42 NON-MEMBER PRICE -OR- $37 MEMBER PRICE

Tango In The Night

FLEETWOOD MAC

$42 NON-MEMBER PRICE -OR- $37 MEMBER PRICE

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Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours: Live’ Debuts at No.4 on Album Sales Chart

Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours: Live’ Debuts in Top 10 on Album Sales Chart

Billboard

Fleetwood Mac’s from-the-vaults release Rumours: Live debuts at No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Sept. 23). It’s the highest debut on the list for the band in more than 20 years, since the act’s last full-length studio album, Say You Will, opened at No. 2 in May 2003.

Comprised almost entirely of previously unreleased recordings, Rumours: Live captures the band’s Aug. 29, 1977, concert at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., during the act’s Rumours Tour. The trek was in support of its then-most-recent studio release Rumours, which had bowed earlier in 1977. That album would spend 31 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart – still the most weeks at No. 1 for an album by a group. The set launched four top 10-charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including the group’s lone chart-topper, “Dreams.”

(Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales.)

Rumours: Live sold a little over 10,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 14, according to Luminate. Among the songs featured on the album are such Hot 100 hits as “Dreams,” “Oh Well,” “Landslide,” “Over My Head,” “Rhiannon,” “You Make Loving Fun” and “Go Your Own Way.” Rumours: Live was available to purchase as a digital download album or in three physical iterations (a 180-gram double vinyl set, a crystal-clear colored double vinyl set sold via Walmart, and a two-CD package). Vinyl accounted for 44.5% of the album’s first-week sales.

Fleetwood Mac “Rumours Live” 

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Rumours Live Vinyl | Rumours Live CD

Rumours Live On The Charts:

USA:

No. 4 - Top Selling Album 

No. 7 - Top Vinyl Album Sales 

No.81 - Billboard Top 200 

Scotland:

No. 6 - Top 100 Albums (debut)

UK:

No. 9 - Top 100 Album Sales (2,988 sales)

No.11 - Top 40 Vinyl Albums

No.19 - Top 100 Physical Albums

No.23 - Top 100 Download Albums

No.23 - Top 100 Streaming Albums

No.34 - Top 100 Albums Chart

New Zealand:

No.32 - Top 40 Albums Chart

France:

No.51 - Top 150 Albums Chart

FLEETWOOD MAC RUMOURS LIVE AVAILABLE SEPT 8

FLEETWOOD MAC RUMOURS LIVE

(2-CD OR 2-LP)

RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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Rumours Live Vinyl | Rumours Live CD

REVIEWS

Fleetwood Mac was at the top of its game in August 1977 when the band returned to its adopted home in Southern California to play three shows at The Forum in Los Angeles. Rumours had only been out a few weeks when the band left in February to tour the world, returning six months later to play three shows at The Forum for nearly 50,000 fans.

Rumours was the #1 album in America and well on its way to becoming one of the most successful ever released. Rumours eventually sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and has just been certified 21x platinum in the U.S. The record has also been certified 14x Platinum in the U.K., and 13x Platinum in Australia and New Zealand, all countries where the album reached #1.

RUMOURS LIVE captures the energy and excitement of the band’s opening night at The Forum on August 29, 1977. The nearly 90-minute performance includes live versions of most of the songs from Rumours and Fleetwood Mac, the group’s first multi-platinum #1 album, which came out in 1975.

The concert remained unreleased for decades until 2021, when “Gold Dust Woman” from the show was included as a bonus track on Live: Deluxe Edition, Rhino’s expanded version of Fleetwood Mac’s 1980 concert album. The other 17 songs on the collection have never been released before.

RUMOURS LIVE will be available on September 8 as 2-CD and 2-LP sets. The black-vinyl version has two 180-gram records in a gatefold jacket with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Pre-order HERE. Also, a crystal clear-vinyl version of RUMOURS LIVE will be released the same day exclusively at Walmart.

The music will be available from digital and streaming platforms. The unreleased live version of “DREAMS” from RUMOURS LIVE is available now on all digital platforms.

The concert’s setlist draws almost exclusively from Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, the first two albums recorded by the band’s latest incarnation: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie, and the newest members, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham. The lone nod to Fleetwood Mac’s other nine studio albums is a performance of “Oh Well,” a rock-guitar masterpiece originally released in 1969 and written by the band’s founder, guitarist Peter Green.

Engineer Ken Caillat, who helped record Rumours, also recorded the concert at The Forum using the Record Plant’s mobile recording truck. He captured the band’s impassioned performance at a moment of peak Rumours frenzy, including powerful versions of “Landslide,” “Never Going Back Again,” “Songbird,” and “The Chain.”

In the liner notes from RUMOURS LIVE, Sam Graham observes: “The songs are familiar: ‘Dreams,’ ‘Go Your Own Way,’ ‘Say You Love Me,’ ‘Over My Head,’ and on and on. But most of these live versions are more muscular, more ferocious, than the album recordings, driven by the powerhouse Fleetwood-John McVie rhythm section and Buckingham’s febrile guitar playing; and instead of a rote recital of the hits, the group stretches out in concert, as songs like ‘Rhiannon,’ ‘World Turning,’ and ‘I’m So Afraid’ blossom into exuberant tours de force onstage.

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RUMOURS LIVE 2-LP Track Listing

LP One

Side One

1.    “Say You Love Me”

2.    “Monday Morning”

3.    “Dreams”

4.    “Oh Well”

5.    “Rhiannon”

Side Two

1.    “Oh Daddy”

2.    “Never Going Back Again”

3.    “Landslide”

4.    “Over My Head”

5.    “Gold Dust Woman”

LP Two

Side One

1.    “You Make Loving Fun”

2.    “I’m So Afraid”

3.    “Go Your Own Way”

4.    “World Turning”

Side Two

1.    “Blue Letter”

2.    “The Chain”

3.    “Second Hand News”

4.    “Songbird”

STEVIE NICKS AND FLEETWOOD MAC RECORD STORE DAY 2023 RELEASES

 COMING SOON!

STEVIE NICKS

Bella Donna Live 1981

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 EXCLUSIVE RELEASE

APRIL 22, 2023

Available for the first time on vinyl, this 2LP set features Stevie Nicks live, a recording from the White Winged Dove Tour, at the Fox Wilshire Theatre on December 13th 1981. The show included tracks from Bella Donna including “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” “Leather and Lace” and “Edge of Seventeen,” along with Fleetwood Mac favorites “Gold Dust Woman,” “Dreams,” “Sara” and “Rhiannon.”

Side 1

A1. GOLD DUST WOMAN

A2. GOLD AND BRAID

A3. I NEED TO KNOW

A4. OUTSIDE THE RAIN

Side 2

B1. DREAMS

B2. ANGEL*

B3. AFTER THE GLITTER FADES

B4. LEATHER AND LACE*

Side 3

C1. STOP DRAGGIN’ MY HEART AROUND

C2. BELLA DONNA*

C3. SARA

C4. HOW STILL MY LOVE*

Side 4

D1. EDGE OF SEVENTEEN

D2. RHIANNON

FLEETWOOD MAC

Albatross/Jigsaw Puzzle

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 FIRST RELEASE

APRIL 22, 2023

Fleetwood Mac's only #1 single in the UK was Peter Green's “Albatross.” This Record Store Day 2023 reissue of the original Fleetwood Mac/Blue Horizon single brings to light the greatness of Peter Green and his time with Fleetwood Mac.  The red vinyl 12” single has individually numbered sleeves. 

"Albatross"/"Jigsaw Puzzle"

FLEETWOOD MAC ALBUM CHART WEEKLY UPDATE

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours continues it's world dominance remaining in the top tier of many charts around the world. It's sitting in the top 20 in the following countries: US, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, The Netherlands, and Belgium. Pure album sales in the US were 7,000 for the week, which is a dip of 17% vs last weeks sales of 9,000 units. (Pure album sales means the full album was purchased either digital or physical). The Top 100 Album Sales Chart used to be the Billboard Top 200 prior to Billboard incorporating streaming numbers into chart placement on the now Billboard Top 200.

Country	Chart	Album/Song	Position This week (Previous week)	Sales
USA	Billboard Top 200	Rumours	18 (14)
USA	Billboard Top 200	Greatest Hits	163 (145)
USA	Top 100 Album Sales	Rumours	5 (4)	7,000
USA	Top 100 Album Sales	Greatest Hits	65 (58)
USA	Top 25 Vinyl Albums	Rumours	3 (2)
USA	Top 25 Rock Digital Song Sales	Dreams	22 (Re-Entry)
UK	Top 100 Albums	50 Years-Don’t Stop	14 (9)	4,124
UK	Top 100 Albums	Rumours	29 (20)
UK	Top 40 Vinyl Albums	Rumours	12 (5)
Ireland	Top 50 Albums	50 Years-Don’t Stop	14 (10)
Ireland	Top 50 Albums	Rumours	18 (14)
Scotland	Top 100 Albums	Rumours	14 (6)
Scotland	Top 100 Albums	Greatest Hits	64 (35)
Scotland	Top 100 Albums	Tango In The Night	77 (Re-Entry)
New Zealand	Top 40 Albums	Rumours	5 (5)
New Zealand	Top 40 Singles	Dreams	22 (11)
Australia	Top 50 Albums	Rumours	19 (16)
Australia	Top 50 Singles	Dreams	50 (50)
Austria	Top 200 Albums	Rumours	75 (68)
Canada	Top 100 Albums	Rumours	22 (17)
Netherlands	Top 100 Albums	Rumours	18 (13)
Netherlands	Top 33 Vinyl Albums	Rumours	5 (5)
Belgium	Top 200 Albums	Rumours	18 (25)
Belgium	Top 200 Albums	Greatest Hits	74 (70)

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours 5th Best Selling Vinyl Album of 2022

According to Billboard Magazine, Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours was one of the best-selling albums in the US in 2022. The album sold a total of 310,000 copies, of which 243,000 were vinyl albums. This makes Fleetwood Mac one of the best-selling artists of the year. That's amazing!! Notably, Michael Jackson appears on both lists. Rumours was the best selling album in the US up until Michael Jackson released Thriller in 1982. 

Top 10 best-selling albums of 2022 in the U.S. (physical & digital combined), according to Luminate's 2022 year-end report:

1. Taylor Swift - Midnights (1.818 million)

2. Harry Styles - Harry’s House (757,000)

3. BTS - Proof (422,000)

4. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (354,000)

5. Beyonce - Renaissance (335,000)

6. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (310,000)

7. Adele - 30 (296,000)

8. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (278,000)

9. Michael Jackson - Thriller (236,000)

10.Tomorrow X Together - Minisode 2: Thursday’s Child (229,000)

Top 10 best-selling vinyl albums of 2022 in the U.S. according to 

Luminate's 2022 year-end report:

1. Taylor Swift - Midnights (945,000)

2. Harry Styles - Harry’s House (480,000)

3. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (263,000)

4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (254,000)

5. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (243,000)

6. Tyler The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost (211,000)

7. Taylor Swift - Folklore (174,000)

8. Tyler The Creator - Igor (172,000)

9. Michael Jackson - Thriller (168,000)

10.The Beatles - Abbey Road (160,000)

Fleetwood Mac Albums Chart Update First Week of 2023

THREE TOP SELLERS THIS WEEK

(Previous week on the charts in brackets)

 

Fleetwood Mac this week on the Album Charts around the world

USA 

Billboard Top 200 Albums January 7, 2023

#32  - Rumours (27)

#174 - Greatest Hits (138)

Top 100 Album Sales (pure sales)

#5  - Rumours (7)

#66 - Greatest Hits (56)

Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours climbs 7-5 with 12,000 (down 39%).  In the US in the month of December, Rumours has shifted approx. 55,000 copies. That's amazing!

Dec 31st - No. 7 with 20,000 sold

Dec 14th - No. 7 with 13,000 sold

Dec 17th - No. 8 with 12,000 sold

Dec 10th - No.10 with 10,000 sold

Top 25 Vinyl Albums

#6 - Rumours (6)

CANADA

Top 100 Albums January 7, 2023

#54 - Rumours (Re-entry)

Top 50 Digital Song Sales

#13 - Everywhere (Re-entry)

#23 - Dreams (Re-entry)

#39 - Little Lies (New)

UK 

Top 100 Albums January 6, 2023

After climbing to No.8 last week – its highest chart position for 90 weeks – Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours departs the Top 10 for the ninth time in its near 46-year chart career, dipping to No.12 (3,869 sales).

#11 - 50 Years - Don't Stop (15)

#12 - Rumours (8) 3,869 sales

Top 100 Singles Chart

#85 - Everywhere (Re-entry)

Top 40 Vinyl Albums

#2  - Rumours (2)

#14 - Greatest Hits (9)

SCOTLAND

Top 100 Albums January 6, 2023

#2  - Rumours (3)

#20 - Greatest Hits (21)

IRELAND

Top 50 Albums January 6, 2023

#12 - 50 Years - Don't Stop (20)

#15 - Rumours (11)

GERMANY

Top 100 Albums January 6, 2023

#64 - Rumours (Re-entry)

NETHERLANDS

Top 100 Albums January 7, 2023

#8 - Rumours (21)

Top 33 Vinyl Albums

#1 - Rumours (1)

AUSTRALIA

Top 50 Albums January 9, 2023

#11 - Rumours (12)

Top 50 Singles Chart

#34 - Dreams (78)

NEW ZEALAND

Top 40 Albums January 9, 2023

#4 - Rumours (6)

Top 40 Singles chart

#34 - Dreams (39)