1977 Timeless Rock Classic Is the Oldest Record on the 'Top 100 Albums of All Time'

49 years after its initial release, this Fleetwood Mac record is the oldest album on Spotify’s all-time top 100 albums. 

According to new listenership data released by Spotify, Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours is the oldest album included on the streamer’s top 100 list. With a whopping 8.3 billion all-time streams, Rumours hosts a number of the band’s biggest hits, like “Dreams,” “Go Your Own Way” and “The Chain,” just to name a few. (Later iterations of the album also included the iconic bonus track “Silver Springs”).

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Rumours has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. It also won Album of the Year at the 20th Grammy Awards in 1978, and is one of the band’s two albums to have been inducted into the Grammys Hall of Fame (along with the group’s 1975 self-titled album).

The eleventh studio album from Fleetwood Mac, Rumours has spent a total of 683 weeks on the Billboard 200, with a staggering 31 weeks spent in the No. 1 spot. Even almost 50 years after it first released, the album still ranks on the Billboard 200, holding the No. 28 position on the chart’s most current ranking (dated the week of May 9, 2026).

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Rumours is also consistently ranked among the best all-time albums by fans and music critics alike, earning the No. 7 slot on Rolling Stone‘s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (published in 2020). It was placed at No. 16 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Albums (2002), and it ranks at No. 11 on Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums list.

Rumours is the only album from the ’70s to make Spotify’s top 100, with Michael Jackson‘s Thriller (1982) taking second place and Nirvana‘s Nevermind (1991) in third.

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