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Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3
As I recall even after hearing the "White Album" Mo and Warners still did nothing extra to promote the album until around Christmas of 1975 when Over My Head starting going in the Billboard charts where no Fleetwood Mac song had gone before and the album had sold over a million copies. Then they starting spending to promote it.
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Yes, this is basically what Mick says in his first book. The album exceeded sales of 400,000 units and the label wouldn’t pay for promotional balloons at one of their shows. Not until OMH reached 20 and the two successive singles reached 11 respectively did the label suddenly stand up and take real notice. There was some help early on for remixing the three singles but this didn’t actually come from the label. The band hired an outside AR guy.