The Dance (Fleetwood Mac album)

The Dance
Live album by Fleetwood Mac
Released 19 August 1997
Recorded Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank, California; 23 May 1997
Genre Rock
Length 79:11
Label Reprise
Producer Lindsey Buckingham and Elliot Scheiner
Fleetwood Mac chronology
Time
(1995)		 The Dance
(1997)		 Say You Will
(2003)

The Dance is a live album by Fleetwood Mac, released in 1997. It hailed the return of the band's most successful line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks, who had not released an album together since 1987's Tango in the Night a decade earlier. It was the first Fleetwood Mac release to top the U.S. album charts since 1982's Mirage.

History

This was the last Fleetwood Mac album to feature Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac has since announced a new album featuring McVie to be recorded in 2015), who left the group a year after the album's release. Debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 199,000, The Dance became the fifth best-selling live album of all time in the United States, selling a million copies within eight weeks, spending more than seven months within the top 40, and eventually selling over 6,000,000 copies worldwide. The DVD version has been certified 9x platinum in Australia for selling 135,000 copies. The 44 date tour grossed $36 million.

The concert was recorded for Fleetwood Mac's MTV The Dance special at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California on 23 May 1997, and features the University of Southern California Marching Band who perform on the tracks "Tusk" (having played on the original studio recording) and "Don't Stop".

Although predominantly a live greatest hits package, The Dance also features new material written by each of the primary songwriting members of the band (two from Buckingham) as well as popular album tracks. For example, "Bleed to Love Her" was a previously unreleased track when this album was released, although a studio recording of the song was later included on the Say You Will album. No tracks from the Mirage album were included on the CD, although "Gypsy" is included in the video and DVD versions.

The album cover, taken by David LaChapelle, has Mick Fleetwood recreating his pose from the cover of Rumours, the band's most successful album and Lindsey Buckingham holding the cane used on the cover of the Fleetwood Mac album, Rumours' predecessor.

This album spawned three singles: "Landslide", "The Chain" and "Silver Springs", and earned the band 3 Grammy nominations in 1998, in the categories "Best Pop Album", "Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo" for "The Chain" and "Best Pop Performance by a Group or Duo" for "Silver Springs".

CD track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "The Chain"  John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham 5:11
2. "Dreams"  Nicks 4:39
3. "Everywhere"  C. McVie 3:28
4. "Rhiannon"  Nicks 6:48
5. "I'm So Afraid"  Buckingham 7:45
6. "Temporary One"  C. McVie 4:00
7. "Bleed to Love Her"  Buckingham 3:27
8. "Big Love"  Buckingham 3:06
9. "Landslide"  Nicks 4:27
10. "Say You Love Me"  C. McVie 4:59
11. "My Little Demon"  Buckingham 3:33
12. "Silver Springs"  Nicks 5:41
13. "You Make Loving Fun"  C. McVie 3:49
14. "Sweet Girl"  Nicks 3:19
15. "Go Your Own Way"  Buckingham 5:00
16. "Tusk"  Buckingham 4:22
17. "Don't Stop"  C. McVie 5:28

DVD / Video track listing

The DVD video in 1.33:1 aspect ratio, audio in Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM stereo

  1. "The Chain" (Buckingham, Fleetwood, C. McVie, J. McVie, Nicks)
  2. "Dreams" (Nicks)
  3. "Everywhere" (C. McVie)
  4. "Gold Dust Woman" (Nicks) * ***
  5. "I'm So Afraid" (Buckingham)**
  6. "Temporary One" (C. McVie)
  7. "Bleed to Love Her" (Buckingham)
  8. "Gypsy" (Nicks) * ***
  9. "Big Love" (Buckingham) **
  10. "Go Insane" (Buckingham) * ** ***
  11. "Landslide" (Nicks)
  12. "Say You Love Me" (C. McVie)
  13. "You Make Loving Fun" (C. McVie)
  14. "My Little Demon" (Buckingham)
  15. "Silver Springs" (Nicks) ***
  16. "Over My Head" (C. McVie) * ***
  17. "Rhiannon" (Nicks)
  18. "Sweet Girl" (Nicks)
  19. "Go Your Own Way" (Buckingham) ***
  20. "Tusk" (Buckingham)
  21. "Don't Stop" (C. McVie)
  22. "Songbird" (C. McVie) * ***

* Exclusive to the VHS/DVD version

** Later released on the 2CD USA version of The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac

*** Live version released as a B-Side of a single

Credits

Fleetwood Mac

Additional personnel

Fleetwood Mac Crew

CD production

Video production

Charts

Album
Chart (1997) Peak
position
US Billboard 200 1
UK Albums Chart 15
Canadian Albums Chart 19
Australian Music Sales Chart 4
German Albums Chart 20
Dutch Album Charts 4
New Zealand Albums Chart 12
Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1997 "The Chain" Mainstream Rock Tracks 30
1998 "Landslide" Adult Contemporary 10
1998 "Landslide" Adult Top 40 26
1998 "Landslide" Billboard Hot 100 51

Certifications

Album release
Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[1] Platinum 70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[2] Platinum 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[3] Platinum 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[4] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[5] 5× Platinum 5,000,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone
Video release
Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[6]
DVD edition		 9× Platinum 135,000^
United States (RIAA)[7] Platinum 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[8] Platinum 50,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1997 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  2. ↑ "Canadian album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – The Dance". Music Canada.
  3. ↑ "New Zealand album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – The Dance". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand.
  4. ↑ "British album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – The Dance". British Phonographic Industry. Enter The Dance in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search
  5. ↑ "American album certifications – Fleetwood Mac – The Dance". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
  6. ↑ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2004 DVDs". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  7. ↑ "American video certifications – Fleetwood Mac – The Dance". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Video Longform, then click SEARCH
  8. ↑ "British video certifications – Fleetwood Mac – The Dance". British Phonographic Industry. Enter The Dance in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select DVD in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search
Preceded by
No Way Out by Puff Daddy		 Billboard 200 number-one album
6–12 September 1997 		Succeeded by
No Way Out by Puff Daddy
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