THE BABY ON THE COVER OF NEVERMIND IS ALL GROWN UP-AND LITIGIOUS.Ĭobain began brainstorming ideas for the Nevermind cover after watching a documentary about underwater births. Nevermind returned to the top of the chart for one more week in February 1992-right before Brooks reigned for another eight straight weeks.ĥ. It was a symbolic victory for both Nirvana and the rising alternative rock movement, though Nevermind was unseated a week later by country superstar Garth Brooks’s Ropin’ the Wind, the year’s top album. In reaching the summit, the LP dethroned Michael Jackson’s Dangerous, which had held the pole position for four consecutive weeks. NEVERMIND TOPPED THE CHARTS AND TOPPLED THE KING OF POP. All told, it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.Ĥ. By 1999, it had been certified 10x platinum in the United States. At the peak of Nirvanamania, the album was selling 300,000 copies per week. Then “Smells Like Teen Spirit” hit and blew all sales projections out the window. The upper-level predictions were that Nevermind would achieve gold status and move 500,000 units. The label was hoping to sell 250,000 copies-the same as Sonic Youth had with 1990’s Goo. When Nevermind came out, Geffen shipped a mere 46,521 copies to American retail outlets. GEFFEN HAD LOW EXPECTATIONS FOR NEVERMIND. This was apparently a snide commentary about the people who might buy the album, as Cobain drafted some ad copy in his journal that read: “Because you want to not, because everyone else is.” Bass player Krist Novoselic has said the title was a reflection of the band’s cynicism.ģ. Nirvana’s working title for their sophomore LP was Sheep. THE ALBUM WASN’T ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE CALLED NEVERMIND. In addition to Nevermind, the new release shelf that day would’ve featured Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger, Red Hot Chili Peppers’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory.Ģ.
If you went to your local Sam Goody or Tower Records on September 24, 1991, there’s a good chance you blew your entire allowance on CDs. NEVERMIND WAS RELEASED ON THE SAME DAY AS SEVERAL OTHER CLASSIC ALBUMS. In honor of the album’s 30th anniversary, here are 11 facts about Nirvana’s magnum opus.ġ0 Surprising Facts About Nirvana's 'Nevermind'ġ.
Led by the world-beating single “ Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nevermind sold in droves, killed hair metal, kickstarted the alt-rock revolution, and made a superstar of troubled Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The group, of course, was Nirvana, and the album was Nevermind, an irresistible amalgam of youthful angst and loud-quiet-loud guitar dynamics that signaled the ascendance of “grunge.” What happened next radically changed the face of pop music and altered the cultural landscape for years to come. On September 24, 1991, a relatively unknown rock band from Aberdeen, Washington, released its second album and first on a major label.
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