Nearly five decades on, Rumours still refuses to fade into nostalgia. Fleetwood Mac’s popular 1977 album turns 49 this month—and it still slaps.
Released on February 4, 1977, Rumourswas born out of chaos. At the time, nearly every core relationship within the band was unraveling. Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had ended their long romantic partnership, Christine and John McVie were divorcing, and Mick Fleetwood’s own marriage was collapsing.
But rather than pause, the band poured everything into the music, creating an album that was pure pop-rock perfection.
Rumours has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, placing it among the top 10 best-selling albums of all time. This week, nearly 50 years after its release, it’s still charting—currently sitting at No. 126 on the Billboard 200.
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The album includes hits like “Go Your Own Way,” “The Chain,” and“Dreams”—which went on to become the band’s only No. 1 single in the U.S.
Despite the tension, Fleetwood later said the band made a deliberate choice to keep going. “We refused to let our feelings derail our commitment to the music, no matter how complicated or intertwined they became… it was hard to do, but no matter what, we played through the hurt,” he wrote in his 2014 memoir Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac.
That commitment continues to pay off. This year, Fleetwood Mac added another milestone when “Landslide” officially surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, joining the platform’s Billionaire’s Club. “Thank you for 1 BILLION streams of ‘Landslide’ on Spotify!” the band shared in an Instagram post, marking 51 years since the song’s release.
View this post on InstagramFormed in 1967, Fleetwood Mac found its most iconic lineup in the mid-’70s with Fleetwood, Nicks, Buckingham, John, and the late Christine McVie, who died in 2022.
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