Fleetwood Mac may have been at their creative peak decades ago, but the music they released during their heyday lives on. In fact, the band’s biggest album is not only still charting, but it continues to make history as millions of Americans continue to buy and stream one of the most successful CDs of all time.
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac’s masterpiece, hits a very special milestone this time around on the Billboard 200, the weekly ranking of the most-consumed albums in the U.S. each week. As of this frame, the set has now lived on the tally for 550 weeks.
To put that number into perspective, Rumours is now one of fewer than 20 titles to rack up 550 weeks on the Billboard 200. On the ranking of the longest-charting albums in U.S. history, Fleetwood Mac’s blockbuster release sits right in between Drake’s Take Care (554 weeks) and The Beatles’s 1 compilation, which is nearing 550 frames as well.
Currently, the longest-charting album in the decades-long history of the Billboard 200 remains Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. That title has thus far racked up 981 weeks on the tally. The runner-up is Bob Marley and the Wailers’s Legend, which recently passed 800 turns on the list.
Fleetwood Mac’s win this week isn’t impressive solely because of the length of time it’s spent on the Billboard 200, but also how well the title is still doing. This week, Rumours is a non-mover at No. 35 on the Billboard 200, even after more than 10 years on the tally. The pop/rock set outperforms new releases from the likes of Van Halen, Reba McEntire and Roger Waters, among others.
“Rumours was a massive commercial and critical success when it was released back in 1977. The title worked its way to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming one of their four leaders. The LP spent 31 weeks atop the tally before falling down the list, and it has remained somewhere on the ranking for more than a decade.
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