Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ Is the ninth Album to Attain Chart Document

Nirvana’s grunge period basic continues to chart at file ranges greater than 30 years after its preliminary launch, changing into the ninth album to ever spend 700 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart.

Nevermind shot up the charts for album gross sales inside months of its September 24, 1991 debut. By January, it had knocked Michael Jackson’s Harmful out of the highest spot on the Billboard 200.

Nirvana’s masterpiece stays within the Billboard 200 album chart even at this time. As of this week, Nevermind sits at 120 on the chart, sandwiched between Linkin Park’s Hybrid Idea and a 2002 album from hip hop artist Metro Boomin.

Taylor Swift’s newest, The Tortured Poets Division, tops this week’s record.

Nirvana Achieves Billboard Chart Milestone

The longevity of Nevermind’s run on the Billboard 200 is reasonably exceptional when you think about the record is predicated on album reputation. Nirvana is at present ranked larger than releases from extra modern artists comparable to Drake and The Weeknd.

Moreover, the genre-defining album additionally lately made historical past by making its 700th weekly look on the Billboard 200, an achievement solely reached by 9 different albums in response to Billboard.

Earlier this yr, Metallica’s iconic self-titled 1991 album (higher generally known as The Black Album), turned the fourth album to spend 750 weeks on the Billboard 200.

Different present entries on the Billboard 200 which have appeared for greater than 700 weeks embrace:

Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend: The Better of Bob Marley and The Wailers (865 weeks)Journey Journey’s Best Hits (835 weeks)Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle: The 20 Best Hits (724 weeks)Eminem Curtain Name: The Hits (714 weeks)Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Holligans (706 weeks)

How Many Copies of Nirvana’s Nevermind Have Bought To Date?

In July, Rolling Stone launched an up to date record of its 500 best albums of all time. The record was initially printed in 2003.

The primary up to date model of the record, which got here out in 2012, had Nirvana’s Nevermind at No. 17. The latest replace moved the album as much as No. 6 within the rating.

“It thrusted grunge and different music into the mainstream like no album earlier than it,” Rolling Stone’s Brett Schewitz wrote as a part of the album’s entry on the record. “It destroyed the dominant rock style of on the time, hair steel. It stopped it lifeless in its tracks.”

Rolling Stone went on to notice that Nevermind has bought greater than 30 million copies to this point worldwide. It has been licensed platinum 13 instances by the RIAA in the US as of this December, indicating gross sales (and stream equal totals) in extra of 13 million models.