| Fleetwood Mac | ||||
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| Studio album by Fleetwood Mac | ||||
| Released | 11 July 1975 | |||
| Recorded | February 1975 at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 42:12 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Fleetwood Mac and Keith Olsen | |||
| Fleetwood Mac chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Fleetwood Mac | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [1] |
| Robert Christgau | (A-)[2] |
Fleetwood Mac is the tenth album by the British-American band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1975. It was the band's second eponymous album; the first was their 1968 album. This is the first Fleetwood Mac album to feature Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and Stevie Nicks as vocalist, after Bob Welch departed the band in late 1974.
The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 over a year after entering the chart, and set a record for most weeks on the chart before reaching the top position (broken in 1989, when Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl took 64 weeks to reach number 1). It launched three top twenty singles: "Over My Head", "Rhiannon" and "Say You Love Me", the last two falling just short of the top ten, both at No. 11. In 1986, it was certified 5x platinum by the RIAA representing shipments of five million units.[3]
Until the release of this album, Fleetwood Mac's albums generally sold around 300,000 - 350,000 copies apiece. This album helped launch them as musical superstars with an almost constant radio presence (which would be continued with their even more popular follow-up, Rumours). In 2003, the album was ranked No. 183 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[4]
In Britain, the album was initially largely ignored and the first three singles lifted from the album failed to chart, therefore, generating limited interest in the album and the new line-up of the band. Only "Say You Love Me" charted on the UK Singles Chart and it reached No. 40.[5] With the massive success of Rumours in 1977 and interest in the band re-ignited, Fleetwood Mac was issued again in 1978, along with the re-release of "Rhiannon" which peaked just outside the Top 40 at No. 46.[6] The album eventually peaked at #23[7] on the UK Album Chart but was a prelude to a run of hugely successful albums for the band in Britain, including four multi-platinum number 1s: Rumours, Tusk, Tango in the Night and Behind the Mask.[8]
The album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart with sales of 158,000.
Contents |
| Side one | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Monday Morning" | Buckingham | 2:48 | ||||||
| 2. | "Warm Ways" | C. McVie | 3:54 | ||||||
| 3. | "Blue Letter" | Rick Curtis, Mike Curtis | 2:41 | ||||||
| 4. | "Rhiannon" | Nicks | 4:11 | ||||||
| 5. | "Over My Head" | C. McVie | 3:38 | ||||||
| 6. | "Crystal" | Nicks | 5:14 | ||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Say You Love Me" | C. McVie | 4:11 | ||||||
| 2. | "Landslide" | Nicks | 3:19 | ||||||
| 3. | "World Turning" | Buckingham, C. McVie | 4:25 | ||||||
| 4. | "Sugar Daddy" | C. McVie | 4:10 | ||||||
| 5. | "I'm So Afraid" | Buckingham | 4:22 | ||||||
2004 Re-issue
On 24 March 2004, Warner Bros. Records re-released the remastered album, with the following bonus tracks:
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| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1975 | US Billboard 200 | 1 |
| 1976 | UK | 23 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1976 | "Over My Head" | Pop Singles | 20 |
| 1976 | "Over My Head" | Adult Contemporary | 32 |
| 1976 | "Rhiannon" | Pop Singles | 11 |
| 1976 | "Rhiannon" | Adult Contemporary | 33 |
| 1976 | "Say You Love Me" | Pop Singles | 11 |
| 1976 | "Say You Love Me" | Adult Contemporary | 12 |
| Region | Certification | Sales/shipments |
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| United Kingdom (BPI)[12] | Gold | 100,000^ |
| United States (RIAA)[3] | 5× Platinum | 5,000,000^ |
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^shipments figures based on certification alone |
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| Preceded by Breezin' by George Benson |
Billboard 200 number-one album September 4–10, 1976 |
Succeeded by Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder |