BY THE NUMBERS: GN’R’s ‘Appetite For Destruction’
Guns N’ Roses‘ game-changing Appetite For Destruction turns 30 today (July 21), and when you’re the best-selling debut album of all time, your stats tend to be pretty impressive.
Top to bottom, there’s not a filler track in sight, and even three decades on, it sounds as vicious as ever. Here’s Appetite “By The Numbers.”
- Age/Date Released: 30 (July 21, 1987)
- Number of Tracks: 12
- “Welcome to the Jungle”
- “It’s So Easy”
- “Nightrain”
- “Out ta Get Me”
- “Mr. Brownstone”
- “Paradise City”
- “My Michelle”
- “Think About You”
- “Sweet Child o’ Mine”
- “You’re Crazy”
- “Anything Goes”
- “Rocket Queen”
- Highest Billboard 200 Album Chart Position: 1 (on August 6, 1988)
- Weeks on the Billboard 200 Album Chart: 173
- Highest Billboard Singles Chart Positions:
- “Welcome to the Jungle”
- Hot 100: 7
- Mainstream Rock: 37
- “Sweet Child o’ Mine”
- Hot 100: 1
- Mainstream Rock: 7
- “Paradise City”
- Hot 100: 5
- Mainstream Rock: 14
- “Welcome to the Jungle”
- Ranking On Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Albums of the 80s: 27
- Ranking On Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 62
- Copies Sold: 30+ million worldwide (18 million U.S.)
Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock news blogger that loves the smell of old vinyl in the morning.
Erica Banas is a news blogger who's been covering the rock/classic rock world since 2014. The coolest event she's ever covered in person was the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Sir Paul McCartney inducting Foo Fighters? C'mon now!) She's also well-versed in etiquette and extraordinarily nice. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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