BY THE NUMBERS: RHCP’s ‘Blood Sugar Sex Magik’
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…
Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on stage at Woodstock 94 in Saugerties, New York on August 14, 1994.
Photo by Gabe Palacio/Getty ImagesRed 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
- 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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