Fleetwood Mac

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Five songs from the album charted - Go Your Own Way, Don’t Stop, Dreams, You Make Lovin’ Fun and The Chain (belatedly in 2009) - although none of them reached the Top 20. Dreams returned to the Top 40 in 2020 thanks to viral video of a skateboarder drinking cranberry juice.

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Released in February 1977, the British-American group’s 11th album was an immediate success, selling millions of copies.

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Green quit the band in May 1970, his mental health damaged by drug use. A second guitarist, Jeremy Spencer, also afflicted by drug-related trauma, vanished 10 months later in the middle of a US tour, after saying he was popping out to get a magazine. He later resurfaced as a member of American religious cult The Children Of God. And a third guitarist, Danny Kirwan, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being fired in 1972. A fourth, Bob Weston, was also fired after he had an affair with Fleetwood’s wife. Rumours has been in the Top 75 without break for the last 258 weeks. That is only one week less than the all-time record for most consecutive weeks in the Top 75 by an album. Ed Sheeran ’s ÷ tops it by just one week, having started its ongoing Top 75 run in the week prior to Rumours’ return to the chart listing in 2017. Furthermore, Rumours has spent 928 weeks (almost 18 years) in the longer Top 100 list – by far the highest tally for a studio album, with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon (also released by Warner Music's Rhino) a distant second on 544 weeks.

Decades later, it’s now enjoying a new lease of life on streaming, as well as being a linchpin of the vinyl revival . Dreams even became a viral hit on TikTok in 2020. I give Ken Caillat, who co-produced Rumours, the last word on the LP’s staying power. “I think the combination of the young band members – and that half of them were British and half of them were California hippies – and that the lyrics were fuelled by each of the couples breaking up simultaneously, made the songs relatable to people of all ages,” he says. “Their youth and optimism shines through to this day.” As Alan Jones explains, a curious chart anomaly has cost Fleetwood Mac that particular chart achievement: “Rumours really should have the record itself – the week that ÷ debuted at No.1, Rumours was serving a single week return to the budget album chart. Whether this was an error, or due to a genuine seven-day reduction in price is not clear, but had it not been disqualified from the main chart, where it would have been No.45 that week, its current Top 75 run would be 265 weeks.” Now to some of Fleetwood Mac’s incredible achievements over 45 years with Rumours, as researched by Alan Jones in his latest Music Week charts analysis .

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