Stevie Nicks took to the KIA Forum Stage on January 30th taking part in Fire Aid A Benefit Concert For Wildlfire Relief. The set was short, she was on stage for about 25 minutes, performed three songs opening with "Stand Back", then speaking to the audience telling her own experience evacuating the fire zone in Pacific Palisades where she has a home. Even though the fire came close to her home, her home and street were spared and saved with the help of the Santa Rosa Fire Dept, who she thanked before segueing into "Landslide". She finished her set with "Edge of Seventeen".
A new incarnation of Fleetwood Mac debuted in the summer of 1975, including Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie, along with new members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
In celebration of 50 years of this legendary era of Fleetwood Mac, these classic albums will be reissued on crystal-clear vinyl as a 6LP boxed set, a 5CD set, and digitally on March 28.
Fleetwood Mac released five back-to-back multi-platinum albums between 1975 and 1987, an astonishing feat that drove them to become one of the best-selling bands in the world.
On March 28, these classic albums will be reissued on crystal-clear vinyl as a 6LP boxed set as well as a 5CD set.
This collection includes Fleetwood Mac(1975), Rumours(1977), Tusk(1979), Mirage(1982), and Tango In The Night (1987). A Rhino.com exclusive edition, including a crystal-clear 12-inch of “Silver Springs” and “Go Your Own Way” in both stereo and mono, will be available on the same day and is limited to 1,000 copies globally. Pre-order HERE.
A new incarnation of Fleetwood Mac debuted in the summer of 1975, including Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie, along with new members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. The group’s first album together, Fleetwood Mac(sometimes called “The White Album”), topped the Billboard album chart, spent more than a year in the Top 40 and sold more than five million copies in the U.S. thanks to songs like “Landslide,” “Say You Love Me,” and “Rhiannon.”
In 1977, the band followed up with the 21x Platinum record Rumours - considered among the greatest albums of all time. It won the GRAMMY® Award for Album of the Year and has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. Its unforgettable tracks “Go Your Own Way,” “Gold Dust Woman,” and the band’s first number-one smash, the Gold-certified “Dreams.”
The Grammy®-nominated double-album Tuskarrived in 1979, selling more than four million copies worldwide and introducing fans to hits like “Sara,” “Think About Me,” and the title track. Three years later, in 1982, Fleetwood Mac again topped the U.S. Album Chart for five weeks with Mirage. Along with hits like “Hold Me” and “Gypsy,” Mirage also features great album tracks like “Oh Diane” and “Straight Back.”
In 1987, Tango in the Night became the second-most successful album of the band’s career, selling more than 15 million copies worldwide with the massive hits “Everywhere,” “Big Love,” and “Little Lies.”
Empire of The Sun dropped the Delux edition of their latest album "Ask That God" on January 24th and the expanded album includes a new collab with Lindsey Buckingham on the track "Sombody's Son". Lindsey is credited as a writer and performer. Not sure if he's singing on the track, but his guitar playing through out the track and particularly near the end is clear.
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" reached another milestone in it's 48 years of existence. The BPI in the UK on January 16, 2025 certified the album 17X Platinum signifying 5.1 million units sold in the country.
In other news, Luminate's year end report on album sales in the US reported that "Rumours" was the 9th best selling vinyl in the US in 2024 (excluding independent retail store sales). The album sold on vinyl 178,000 units.
VINYL ALBUM SALES INCREASE 4.3%: Luminate’s year-end report reveals that U.S. vinyl album sales increased 4.3% in 2024 as compared to 2023, when excluding independent retail store sales (due to the methodology change noted above in this story). In 2023, industry-wide, vinyl sales increased for an 18th consecutive year.
TOP 10-SELLING VINYL ALBUMS OF 2024 IN U.S.
1. Taylor Swift, The Tortured Poets Department (1.489 million)
2. Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft (340,000)
3. Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (336,000)
4. Sabrina Carpenter, Short n’ Sweet (291,000)
5. Taylor Swift, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (200,000)
Join us for an evening of music and solidarity. The FireAid benefit concert will be held at Intuit Dome and Kia Forum on January 30th dedicated to rebuilding communities that have been devastated by wildfires.
Contributions made to FireAid in connection with the FireAid benefit concert and other direct donations will be distributed under the advisement of the Annenberg Foundation and will be distributed for short-term relief efforts and long-term initiatives to prevent future fire disasters throughout Southern California. The Annenberg Foundation, with decades of philanthropic leadership in our community, including rapid response, will help coordinate a team to direct funds for the greatest impact.
Stevie Nicks had the third bestselling Record Store Day Black Friday single
Stevie Nicks had the third bestselling Record Store Day Black Friday single
Stevie Nicks scored big on Record Store Day Black Friday with her latest single, "The Lighthouse."
Billboard reported that the white 7-inch vinyl claimed the #3 spot among the bestselling singles, trailing only Pearl Jam's "Waiting for Stevie (Live)”/“Wreckage (Live)” at #2 and The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand”/“I Saw Her Standing There” at #1.
Top-Selling Record Store Day Black Friday 2024 Exclusive Singles at Independent Record Stores in U.S.
1. The Beatles, I Want To Hold Your Hand / I Saw Her Standing There (7-inch vinyl)
2. Pearl Jam, Waiting for Stevie (Live) / Wreckage (Live) (12-inch 45-RPM vinyl)
3. Stevie Nicks, The Lighthouse (white-colored 7-inch vinyl)
Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel are teaming up for another show on Friday, Aug. 8, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. This will be their only tri-state area performance and Joel's first-ever show at the venue, though he frequently played at the old Giants Stadium.
The concert marks the final stop on Joel’s tour.
Tickets go on sale Friday, Dec. 13, at 10 a.m. EST, with select pre-sales starting Monday, Dec. 9.
The island of Maui is a mere dot in the enormity of the vast Pacific Ocean, but it's not hard to see why millions visit every year, and why there are some who never want to leave. Fleetwood Mac founder Mick Fleetwood fell in love with Maui decades ago, and put down deep roots. "Long story, a long love affair," he said.
"But it really is your heart and your home?" I asked.
"Uh-huh. People often think, 'Oh yeah, how often are you on Maui?'" Fleetwood said. "This is my home. No other place."
As a young man he'd dreamed of a place, a club, where he could get his friends together, and 12 years ago he made it happen in the west Maui city of Lahaina: Fleetwood's on Front Street. The menu was eclectic – they served everything from Biddie's Chicken (just like Fleetwood's mom, Biddie, made it) to cookie dough desserts dreamed up by his children. It was also a place where Mick and friends could play. "We created, I created, a band of people under a roof," he said. "Instead of a traveling circus, it was a resident circus at Fleetwood's on Front Street."
And then, in August of 2023, the music stopped.
A wind-driven fire tore through western Maui, killing more than a hundred people, and consuming more than 2,000 buildings. Fleetwood was in Los Angeles when the fire started, and he hurried back to a scene of utter devastation.
And his beloved restaurant? A charred sign was about all that was left.
I said, "I understand your not wanting to be, 'Me, me, me,' especially in light of the lives that were lost, the homes that were lost; you don't want to make too big of a deal out of a restaurant."
"No."
"But at the same time, this was your family. This was your home. That must've been a huge loss."
"It was a huge loss," Fleetwood said. "And in the reminding of it, that wave comes back. Today knowing we're doing this, I go, like, Okay, this is gonna be … a day."
We took a walk with Fleetwood down the street where his place once stood: the last time he was here, the place was still smoldering. "Literally, parts of it were still hot," he said.
More than a year later, the Lahaina waterfront is still very much a disaster zone.
The decision about what to do with the land is still up in the air; the priority is housing for the displaced residents. But Fleetwood says he's determined to rebuild, just maybe not in the same place.
Asked what he pictures in a new place, he said, "For me, it has to encompass being able to handle playing music. There has to be music. We had it every day. That's a selfish request!"
But before anything is rebuilt, there's still a massive cleanup that needs to be completed here.
"We will see," he said. "You have a blank [canvas] to paint on, and there's a lot of painting to do.
"You have to be careful, even in this conversation, of going like, 'How sad that was,' when really it's about, 'Yes, but now we need this.' In the end you go like, it happened. And what's really important is absorbing maybe how all these things happened, and can they be circumnavigated to be more safe in the future, and be more aware? Of course that's part of it. But the real, real essence is the future."
Fleetwood's ukelele is one of the few things that survived the fire, and he's hoping his dream survives as well.
For details about helping those impacted by the August 2023 fires, and for the latest on recovery and rebuilding efforts, including housing, environmental protection and cultural restoration, visit the official county website Maui Recovers.
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