

Dreams returned to the Top 40 in 2020 thanks to viral video of a skateboarder drinking cranberry juice. Rumours got off to a slow start in February 1977, debuting at No.57, but entered the Top 10 the following week and stuck around.įive 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. Yet it only spent a single week at No.1, climbing to the summit in January 1978, a year after its release. Rumours has UK sales to date of 4,633,7311, including 482,250 from sales-equivalent streams, making it one of the 10 biggest-sellers of all-time. 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. In 2020, Rumours was the No.1 seller on vinyl, though based on slightly fewer sales (32,508). Those physical sales include a healthy proportion of vinyl, on which format Rumours was the third biggest seller of 2021 (behind ABBA’s Voyage and Adele’s 30 and ahead of Ed Sheeran’s =) with LP sales of 34,593. A total of 150,565 chart ‘sales’ were made up of 66.1% from streams, 4% downloads and 29.9% physical. Its overall performance in 2021 was similar.

Its weekly sales total apportioned 64.9% to streams and 31.8% to physical copies, along with a modest amount of downloads. In its anniversary chart week, Rumours (Rhino) placed at No.21 (3,350 sales - Official Charts Company). Dreams even became a viral hit on TikTok in 2020. Released in February 1977, the British-American group’s 11th album was an immediate success, selling millions of copies.ĭecades later, it’s now enjoying a new lease of life on streaming, as well as being a linchpin of the vinyl revival. Fleetwood Mac ’s classic Rumours album is marking the 45th anniversary of its chart debut.
