BY THE NUMBERS: RHCP’s ‘Blood Sugar Sex Magik’
Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on stage at Woodstock 94 in Saugerties, New York on August 14, 1994.
Red Hot Chili Peppers scored a major breakthrough and made quite the statement with their fifth studio album Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and here are the numbers to back it up.
- Age/Date Released: 25 (September 24, 1991)
- Number of Producers: 1 (Rick Rubin, who would produce every single RHCP album thereafter until 2016’s The Getaway.)
- Number of Tracks: 17
- “The Power Of Equality”
- “If You Have To Ask”
- “Breaking The Girl”
- “Funky Monks”
- “Suck My Kiss”
- “I Could Have Lied”
- “Mellowship Slinky In B Major”
- “The Righteous & The Wicked”
- “Give It Away”
- “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”
- “Under The Bridge”
- “Naked In The Rain”
- “Apache Rose Peacock”
- “The Greeting Song”
- “My Lovely Man”
- “Sir Psycho Sexy”
- “They’re Red Hot”
- Number Of Singles: 5
- “Give It Away”
- “Under The Bridge”
- “Suck My Kiss”
- “Breaking The Girl”
- “If You Have To Ask”
- Number Of Videos: 4
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- Highest Billboard 200 Album Chart Position: 3
- Weeks On The Billboard 200 Album Chart: 97
- Highest Billboard Singles Chart Position:
- “Give It Away”
- Hot 100: 73
- Modern/Alternative: 1
- “Under The Bridge”
- Hot 100: 2
- Mainstream Rock: 2
- Modern/Alternative: 6
- “Breaking The Girl”
- Mainstream Rock: 15
- Modern/Alternative: 19
- “Suck My Kiss”
- Modern/Alternative: 15
- Ranking On Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Albums of the 90s: 19
- Ranking On Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 310
- Copies Sold: 13 million worldwide (7 Million U.S.)
- “Give It Away”
Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock blogger that loves the smell of old vinyl in the morning.
Erica Banas is a news blogger who's been covering the rock/classic rock world since 2014. The coolest event she's ever covered in person was the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Sir Paul McCartney inducting Foo Fighters? C'mon now!) She's also well-versed in etiquette and extraordinarily nice. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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