Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)

Fleetwood Mac
Studio album by
Released11 July 1975 (1975-07-11)
RecordedJanuary–February 1975
StudioSound City Studios, Van Nuys, California
Genre
Length42:12
LabelReprise
Producer
Fleetwood Mac chronology
Heroes Are Hard to Find
(1974)
Fleetwood Mac
(1975)
Rumours
(1977)
Singles from Fleetwood Mac
  1. "Over My Head"
    Released: September 1975 (US)[4]
  2. "Warm Ways"
    Released: October 1975 (UK)[5]
  3. "Rhiannon"
    Released: February 1976 (US)[6]
  4. "Say You Love Me"
    Released: June 1976 (US)

Fleetwood Mac is the tenth studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 11 July 1975 in the United States and on 1 August 1975 in the United Kingdom[7] by Reprise Records. It is the band's second eponymous album, the first being their 1968 debut album, and is sometimes referred to by fans as the White Album.[8] It is the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and Stevie Nicks as a vocalist, after Bob Welch departed the band in late 1974. It is also the band's last album to be released on the Reprise label until 1997's The Dance; the band's subsequent albums until then were released through Warner Bros. Records, Reprise's parent company.

The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart on 4 September 1976, 58 weeks after entering the chart,[9] and spawned three top-twenty singles: "Over My Head", "Rhiannon", and "Say You Love Me", the last two falling just short of the top ten, both at number 11. It has been certified 7x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over seven million copies in the United States.[10] Peaking at number 23 on the UK Albums Chart,[11] it was the start of a run of hugely successful albums for the band in Britain, with six number ones, Fleetwood Mac being followed by Rumours (1977), Tusk (1979), Mirage (1982), Tango in the Night (1987), and Behind the Mask (1990).[12]

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  2. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (17 July 2000). "Family Feud: Fleetwood Mac". Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-312-19821-3.
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  4. ^ "Fleetwood Mac – Over My Head". Dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  5. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 296. ISBN 9780862415419.
  6. ^ "Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon". Dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  7. ^ "BPI".
  8. ^ Gleason, Holly (29 May 2014). "The 20 Best Fleetwood Mac Songs of All Time". Paste. Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
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  11. ^ Roberts 2006, p. 205.
  12. ^ Strong 2003.

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