Those songs emerged from long, meticulous studio sessions punctuated by romantic tension and heavy drug use. вЂњItвЂ™s a fantastic pop album with classically written pop songs: that never goes out of style.вЂќ It sold 169,000 vinyl copies in the US in 2021 (according to MRC Data).ДЇor Brittany Spanos, a senior writer at Rolling Stone, its ongoing popularity has a simple explanation. It is currently at No 29 in its 926th week on the UK album chart вЂ“ up five places from the week before вЂ“ while in the US, Rumours sold 6,000 vinyl copies in the last week of January, reaching No 1 on the vinyl albums chart. According to the UKвЂ™s Official Charts Company, Rumours sold 34,593 vinyl copies in 2021, third only to new albums by Adele and Abba, and besting new records by Ed Sheeran and Lana Del Rey. WhatвЂ™s truly remarkable, though, is how it continues to sell new physical copies, despite being available to stream and in secondhand form in every high-street charity shop. It won album of the year at the Grammys, went 20 times platinum in the US alone, and sits alongside Kind of Blue and The Rite of Spring in the Library of CongressвЂ™s registry of historically significant recordings. Forty-five years ago this month, Fleetwood Mac released Rumours, an album that combined gauzy soft pop, manicured folk and stormy rock with a soap-operatic level of intra-band strife.

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