

Recently released are Fleetwood Mac's expanded and deluxe versions of Rumours.
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According to the RIAA's current list, Rumours is now tied for the eighth best-selling album in history alongside 1977's Saturday Night Fever soundtrack Shania Twain's 1997 collection, Come On Over. To date, the album, which spent 31 non-consecutive weeks on top of the Billboard 200 albums chart, has sold over 40 million copies globally. It was 45 years ago today (February 4th, 1977) that Fleetwood Mac released their masterpiece, Rumours.
