But they weren’t going to manage Rumours II even if they’d wanted to (they arguably tried with Mirage a few years later).Ĭritically, it wasn’t a failure either. The worst that can be said is that Tusk underperformed more than a more accessible follow-up might have underperformed. If it didn’t live up to Rumours’ insane success, well, no album was going to. But the four million it did sell more than made back that extravagant advance and, then as now, any double album that actually made a label money would be in the minority. True, none of the singles matched the success of “Dreams” or “Don’t Stop.” And true, in the end Tusk sold well under Rumours‘ 15 million copies. True, the label spent a then-record $1.4 million on Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours follow-up. But it didn’t actually fail at all.Ĭommercially, it wasn’t a failure. Tusk‘s reputation as an infamous failure is pretty much cemented at this point.
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