Bare Trees turns 53

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

April 22, 1972 Fleetwood Mac’s “Bare Trees” debuted at No.175 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart, eventually reaching No. 70. It’s the final Fleetwood Mac album to feature Danny Kirwan and only pre-Buckingham Nicks era album certified Platinum in the US.

That statement was from the Fleetwood Mac twitter page. We all have had this debate about which pre-Nicks albums went platinum and bands must pay to have an updated certification. I thought by post Dance I remember hearing Mystery To Me went platinum but apparently not according to Fleetwood Mac. For some reason Bare Trees is always updated but the other albums are not. Maybe because Sentimental Lady becoming a big hit in the States in the late 70s made it go platinum?

The only albums from the pre-Rumours era lineup to receive a certification in the United States are Future Games (Gold), Bare Trees (Platinum), and Mystery to Me (Gold). Interestingly, Penguin and Heroes are Hard to Find lack any certification despite charting higher than any of these albums and having comparable durations in the Billboard 200. In the UK, the BPI was not created until the early 1970s, but the first Fleetwood Mac Album has sold roughly 900,000 copies, meaning that it would possess at least a 3 times platinum status there.