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Fleetwood Mac's "50 Years - Don't Stop" was certified 5x PLATINUM in the UK February 7, 2025 representing sales of 1.5 million units.
The album is No.11 this week on the UK Top 100 albums chart.
Just like clockwork... Another Record Store Day and another Fleetwood Mac release. This time it's a picture disc for the 1975 White album. Rhino is releasing this version in a relatively small quantity compared to the 18,000 that were released of the Rumours picture disc album in April, 2024.
RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: April 12, 2025
Format: LP Picture Disc
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 6,475
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
Fleetwood Mac’s 7X platinum-certified 1975 self-titled album on picture disc for the very first time in celebration of its 50th Anniversary! Features 2-sides of unique artwork, and includes the hit singles “Landslide,” “Say You Love Me” & “Rhiannon”.
Tracklist
A1. Monday Morning
A2. Warm Ways
A3. Blue Letter
A4. Rhiannon
A5. Over My Head
A6. Crystal
B1. Say You Love Me
B2. Landslide
B3. World Turning
B4. Sugar Daddy
B5. I'm So Afraid
Mick Fleetwood was at the 6th Jam for Janie Grammy Awards viewing party presented by Live Nation at the Hollywood Palladium February 2nd... He performed with Steven Tyler at the event. A little bit of a reunion took place. Photos surfaced of Lindsey also at the event.. Which is super cool. The last time published photos of Mick and Lindsey together was in 2018 if I'm not mistaken.
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".
Check out Stevie's full set:
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 Tusk arrived 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.”
FLEETWOOD MAC 1975-1987
Album Listing
12-inch (Rhino.com Exclusive)
Side A
Side B
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)
6. Taylor Swift, Folklore (267,000)
7. Taylor Swift, Midnights (188,000)
8. Taylor Swift, Lover (185,000)
9. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (178,000)
10. Olivia Rodrigo, Guts (175,000)
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.
Fleetwood Mac and "Rumours" were featured prominently (obviously) in a number of categories this year:
TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART - YEAR END 2024
TOP 100 ARTISTS
TOP ARTISTS DUO/GROUP
GLOBAL 200 SONGS
