Urban Ag said:Amazingly, Appetite was released in July 1987 and a month later cracked the Billboard top 200 at 182. No one was buying this album. It took a full year for it to hit #1 in August 1988.Yoda said:
"Welcome to the Jungle".
I don't know squat about the music industry but it seems like typically an album gets fans which leads to touring. These yahoos put out an album know one wanted then went out of tour and gained their fanbase (outside SoCal).
The reason this album's sales went the way you described is due to four simple words - "Sweet Child 'O Mine". It was the third (I think) single from that record, and it wasn't released until the summer of '88. That's when things exploded for them.
Ironically, the same thing happened with Def Leppard over those same 12 months. The 'Hysteria' record was released in August of 1987 and had just moderate success after the first 3 single releases. Then, in the summer of '88, they released 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' and everything exploded.
That was a great summer - seemed like you couldn't go 15 minutes on radio or MTV without hearing those two songs.
