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Nevermind

May 05, 2023

This article is about the album by Nirvana. For other uses, see Nevermind (disambiguation).

Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991, by DGC Records. It was Nirvana's first release on a major label and the first to feature drummer Dave Grohl. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind features a more polished, radio-friendly sound than the band's prior work.[4] It was recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, and Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin in May and June 1991, and mastered that August at the Mastering Lab in Hollywood, California.

Nevermind
Studio album by
Nirvana
ReleasedSeptember 24, 1991 (1991-09-24)
RecordedMay 2–28, 1991[1][2]
June 1–9, 1991 (mixing)[3]
April 1990 ("Polly")
Studio
Genre
Length42:36 (49:07 with hidden track)
LabelDGC
Producer
Nirvana chronology
Blew
(1989) 		Nevermind
(1991) 		Nevermind It's an Interview
(1992)
Singles from Nevermind
  1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
    Released: September 10, 1991
  2. "Come as You Are"
    Released: March 3, 1992
  3. "Lithium"
    Released: July 13, 1992
  4. "In Bloom"
    Released: November 30, 1992

Written primarily by frontman Kurt Cobain, Nevermind is noted for channeling a range of emotions, being noted as dark, humorous, and disturbing. It includes anti-establishment views, anti-sexism, frustration, alienation, and troubled love inspired by Cobain's broken relationship with Bikini Kill's Tobi Vail. Contrary to the popular hedonistic themes of drugs and sex at the time, writers have observed that Nevermind re-invigorated sensitivity to mainstream rock. According to Cobain, the sound of the album was influenced by bands such as Pixies, R.E.M., the Smithereens, and Melvins. Though the album is considered a cornerstone of the grunge genre, it is noted for its musical diversity, which includes acoustic ballads ("Polly" and "Something in the Way") and punk-inspired hard rock ("Territorial Pissings" and "Stay Away").[5]

Nevermind became an unexpected critical and commercial success, hitting top 10 charts across the world. By January 1992, it reached number one on the US Billboard 200 and was selling approximately 300,000 copies a week. The lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" reached the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 and went on to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Its video was also heavily rotated on MTV. Three other successful singles were released: "Come as You Are", "Lithium", and "In Bloom". The album was voted the best album of the year in Pazz & Jop critics' poll, while "Smells Like Teen Spirit" also topped the single of the year and video of the year polls. The album also garnered the band three Grammy Award nominations in total across the 34th and 35th Grammy Awards, including Best Alternative Music Album.

Nevermind and its singles' success propelled Nirvana to being widely regarded as the biggest band of the 1990s, with Cobain being dubbed by critics as the "voice of his generation." The album brought grunge and alternative rock to a mainstream audience while ending the dominance of hair metal, drawing similarities to the early 1960s British Invasion of American popular music. It is also often credited with initiating a resurgence of interest in punk culture among teenagers and young adults of Generation X, becoming seminal to the counterculture of the decade. It has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. In March 1999, it was certified Diamond by the RIAA. Among the most acclaimed and influential albums in the history of music, Nevermind was added to the National Recording Registry in 2004 as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", and is frequently ranked highly on lists of the greatest albums of all time. The album has since been reissued with alternate takes and live performances.

Background and early sessions

In early 1990, Nirvana began planning their second album for their record company Sub Pop, tentatively titled Sheep. At the suggestion of Sub Pop head Bruce Pavitt, Nirvana selected Butch Vig as producer.[6] The band particularly liked Vig's work with Killdozer.[7] They traveled to Vig's Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, and recorded from April 2 to 6, 1990.[8] Most of the basic arrangements were complete, but songwriter Kurt Cobain was still working on lyrics and the band was unsure of which songs to record.[9] Ultimately, eight were recorded, some of which appeared on Nevermind: "Imodium" (later renamed "Breed"), "Dive" (later released as the B-side to "Sliver"), "In Bloom", "Pay to Play" (later renamed "Stay Away"), "Sappy", "Lithium", "Here She Comes Now" (released on Heaven & Hell: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground), and "Polly".[10]

On April 6, Nirvana played a local show in Madison with fellow Seattle band Tad.[11] Vig began to mix the recordings while the band gave an interview to Madison's community radio station WORT on April 7.[12] Cobain strained his voice, forcing Nirvana to end recording. On April 8, they travelled to Milwaukee to begin an extensive midwest and east coast tour of 24 shows in 39 days.[13]

Drummer Chad Channing left after the tour, putting additional recording on hold.[14] During a show by hardcore punk band Scream, Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic were impressed by their drummer Dave Grohl. When Scream unexpectedly disbanded, Grohl contacted Novoselic, travelled to Seattle, and was invited to join the band. Novoselic said in retrospect that, with Grohl, everything "fell into place".[6]

By the 1990s, Sub Pop was having financial problems. With rumors that they would become a subsidiary of a major record label, Nirvana decided to "cut out the middleman" and look for a major record label.[6] Nirvana used the recordings as a demo tape to shop for a new label. Within a few months, the tape was circulating amongst major labels.[14] A number of labels courted them; Nirvana signed with Geffen Records imprint DGC Records based on recommendations from Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and their management company.[15]

After Nirvana signed to DGC, a number of producers were suggested, including Scott Litt, David Briggs, Don Dixon, and Bob Mould.[16] Novoselic said the band had been nervous about recording under a major label, and the producers suggested by DGC wanted percentage points. Instead, the band held out for Vig, with whom they felt comfortable collaborating.[17]

Recording

 
Producer Butch Vig in 2010

With a budget of $65,000, Nirvana recorded Nevermind at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, in May and June 1991.[18] To earn gas money to get to Los Angeles, they played a show where they performed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for the first time.[6] The band sent Vig rehearsal tapes prior to the sessions that featured songs recorded previously at Smart Studios, plus new songs including "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Come as You Are".[19]

Nirvana arrived in California and spent a few days rehearsing and working on arrangements.[20] The only recording carried over from the Smart Studios sessions was "Polly", including Channing's cymbal crashes. Once recording commenced, the band worked eight to ten hours a day.[21]

Despite receiving a $287,000 advance upon signing with Geffen, Cobain retained a preference for inexpensive equipment—particularly Japanese-made Fender guitars, due to their skinny necks and wider availability in lefthanded orientation.[22] These included several Stratocasters fitted with humbucker pickups in the bridge positions, as well as a 1965 Jaguar with DiMarzio pickups and a 1969 Mustang, the latter of which Cobain cited as his favorite due its design flaws.[22] For the album, Cobain bought a rackmount system featuring a Mesa/Boogie Studio preamp, a Crown power amp, and Marshall cabinets. He also used a Vox AC30 and a Fender Bassman. Vig preferred not to use pedals, but allowed Cobain to use a Boss DS-1 distortion pedal, which Cobain considered a key part of his sound, as well as an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff fuzz pedal and a Small Clone chorus.[22]

Novoselic and Grohl finished their tracks in days, while Cobain worked longer on guitar overdubs, vocals, and lyrics. He sometimes finished lyrics minutes before recording.[23] Vig recalled that Cobain was often reluctant to record overdubs, but was persuaded to double-track his vocals when he told him that John Lennon did it.[6] Though the sessions generally went well, Vig said Cobain would become difficult at times: "He'd be great for an hour, and then he'd sit in a corner and say nothing for an hour."[7]

Mixing and mastering

Vig and the band were unhappy with Vig's initial mixes and decided to bring in someone else to oversee the mixing. DGC supplied a list of options, including Scott Litt (known for his work with R.E.M.) and Ed Stasium (known for his work with the Ramones and the Smithereens). Cobain was concerned about bringing in well known producers, and instead chose Andy Wallace, who had co-produced Slayer's 1990 album Seasons in the Abyss.[24] Novoselic recalled, "We said, 'right on,' because those Slayer records were so heavy."[25]

Wallace's mixes most notably altered the drum and guitar sounds.[26] According to Wallace and Vig, the band loved the results.[27] However, they criticized it after the album was released. Steve Albini, who engineered Nirvana's next album, In Utero (1993), said Vig's initial mix "sounded maybe 200 times more ass-kicking" than the final version of Nevermind and that Nirvana referred to it while working on In Utero.[28]

Nevermind was mastered by Howie Weinberg on the afternoon of August 2 at the Mastering Lab in Hollywood, California. Weinberg started working alone when no one else arrived at the appointed time in the studio; by the time Nirvana, Andy Wallace, and Gary Gersh arrived, he had mastered most of the album.[29]

A hidden track, "Endless, Nameless", intended to appear at the end of "Something in the Way", was accidentally left off initial pressings of the album. Weinberg recalled, "In the beginning, it was kind of a verbal thing to put that track at the end. (...) Maybe I didn't write it down when Nirvana or the record company said to do it. So, when they pressed the first twenty thousand or so CDs, albums, and cassettes, it wasn't on there." Cobain called Weinberg and demanded he rectify the mistake.[30]

Music

At the time of writing Nevermind, Cobain was listening to bands such as Melvins, R.E.M., the Smithereens, and Pixies, and was writing songs that were more melodic. A key development was the single "Sliver", released on Sub Pop in 1990 before Grohl joined, which Cobain said "was like a statement in a way. I had to write a pop song and release it on a single to prepare people for the next record. I wanted to write more songs like that."[31] Grohl said that the band at that point likened their music to children's music, in that they tried to make their songs as simple as possible.[6]

Cobain fashioned chord sequences using primarily power chords and wrote songs that combined pop hooks with dissonant guitar riffs. His aim for Nevermind's material was to sound like "the Knack and the Bay City Rollers getting molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath".[32] Many songs feature shifts in dynamics, whereby the band changes from quiet verses to loud choruses. Grohl said this approach originated during a four-month period prior to the recording of the album, when the band would experiment with extreme dynamics during regular jam sessions.[33]

Guitar World wrote, "Kurt Cobain's guitar sound on Nirvana's Nevermind set the tone for Nineties rock music." Cobain played a 1960s Fender Mustang, a Fender Jaguar with DiMarzio pickups, and a few Fender Stratocasters with humbucker bridge pickups. He used distortion and chorus pedals as his main effects, the latter used to generate a "watery" sound on "Come as You Are" and the pre-choruses of "Smells Like Teen Spirit".[34] Novoselic tuned down his bass guitar one and a half steps to D flat "to get this fat-ass sound".[17]

After the release of Nevermind, members of Nirvana expressed dissatisfaction with the production for its perceived commercial sound. Cobain said, "I'm embarrassed by it now. It's closer to a Mötley Crüe record than it is a punk rock record."[26] In 2011, Vig said that Nirvana had "loved" Nevermind when they finished it. He said Cobain had criticized it in the press "because you can't really go, 'Hey, I love our record and I'm glad it sold 10 million copies.' That's just not cool to do. And I think he felt like he wanted to do something more primal."[35]

Lyrics

The album is noted for channeling a range of emotions, being noted as dark, humorous, and disturbing.[36] Thematically, it includes anti-establishment views,[37] and lyrics about sexism,[38] frustration, loneliness, sickness, and troubled love.[39] Contrary to the popular hedonistic themes of drugs and sex at the time, writers have observed that the album re-invigorated sensitivity to mainstream rock.[40] Cobain said that the lyrics were taken from two years of poetry he accumulated, which he then cut up and chose lines he preferred.[41] On the other hand, Grohl has said that Cobain told him, "Music comes first and lyrics come second," and Grohl believes that above all Cobain focused on the melodies of his songs.[6] Cobain was still working on the album's lyrics well into the recording of Nevermind. Additionally, Cobain's phrasing on the album is often difficult to understand. Vig asserted that clarity of Cobain's singing was not paramount. Vig said, "Even though you couldn't quite tell what he was singing about, you knew it was intense as hell."[6] Cobain later complained when rock journalists attempted to decipher his singing and extract meaning from his lyrics, writing: "Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second-rate Freudian evaluation of my lyrics, when 90 percent of the time they've transcribed them incorrectly?"[42]

Charles R. Cross asserted in his 2001 biography of Cobain, Heavier Than Heaven, that many of the songs written for Nevermind were about Cobain's dysfunctional relationship with Tobi Vail. After their relationship ended, Cobain began writing and painting violent scenes, many of which revealed a hatred for himself and others. Songs written during this period were less violent, but still reflected anger absent from Cobain's earlier songs. Cross wrote, "In the four months following their break-up, Kurt would write a half dozen of his most memorable songs, all of them about Tobi Vail." "Drain You" begins with the line, "One baby to another said 'I'm lucky to have met you,'" quoting what Vail had once told Cobain, and the line "It is now my duty to completely drain you" refers to the power Vail had over Cobain in their relationship. According to Novoselic, "'Lounge Act' is about Tobi," and the song contains the line "I'll arrest myself, I'll wear a shield," referring to Cobain having the K Records logo tattooed on his arm to impress Vail. Though "Lithium" had been written before Cobain knew Vail, the lyrics of the song were changed to reference her.[43] Cobain also said in an interview with Musician that "some of my very personal experiences, like breaking up with girlfriends and having bad relationships, feeling that death void that the person in the song is feeling—very lonely, sick".[44]

Title

The tentative title Sheep was something Cobain created as an inside joke directed towards the people he expected to buy the album. He wrote a fake advertisement for Sheep in his journal that read "Because you want to not; because everyone else is."[45] Novoselic said the inspiration for the title was the band's cynicism about the public's reaction to Operation Desert Storm.[17] As recording ended, Cobain grew tired of the title and suggested to Novoselic that the album be named Nevermind. Cobain liked the title because it was a metaphor for his attitude on life and because it was grammatically incorrect.[46] Sacagawea, after the Native American, was briefly considered so to reference the band's intentions for a more widespread impact compared to their previous studio album Bleach.[47]

"Nevermind" appears on the album liner notes as the last word in a paragraph of lyric fragments that ends with "I found it hard, it was hard to find, oh well, whatever, nevermind" from "Smells Like Teen Spirit".[48] The word "nevermind" also echoes the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, one of Cobain's favorite albums.[49]

Artwork

The album cover shows a naked baby boy swimming underwater with a U.S. dollar bill on a fishhook just out of his reach. According to Cobain, he conceived the idea while watching a television program on water births. Cobain mentioned it to Geffen's art director Robert Fisher. Fisher found some stock footage of underwater births, but they were too graphic for the record company to use. Furthermore, the stock house that controlled the photo of a swimming baby that they chose wanted $7,500 a year for its use. Instead, Fisher sent a photographer, Kirk Weddle, to a pool for babies to take pictures. Five shots resulted and the band settled on the image of four-month-old Spencer Elden, the son of a friend of Weddle.[50] Geffen was concerned that the infant's penis, visible in the photo, would cause offense, and prepared an alternate cover without it; they relented when Cobain said the only compromise he would accept would be a sticker covering the penis reading: "If you're offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile."[51] The cover has since been recognized as one of the most famous album covers in popular music.[52] A few months after the original baby shot, Weddle also photographed the entire band underwater for a promotional poster.[53]

The back cover features a photograph of a rubber monkey in front of a collage created by Cobain. The collage features photos of raw beef from a supermarket advertisement, images from Dante's Inferno, and pictures of diseased vaginas from Cobain's collection of medical photos. Cobain noted, "If you look real close, there is a picture of Kiss in the back standing on a slab of beef."[54] The album's liner notes contain no complete lyrics; instead, the liner contains random song lyrics and unused lyrical fragments that Cobain arranged into a poem.[55]

A year later, "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the artwork for his album Off the Deep End, replacing the baby with himself wearing a bathing suit, except it is hidden, and the dollar with a donut. He would later jokingly state "I never really anticipated going full-frontal on any of my album covers."[56]

Spencer Elden lawsuits

In August 2021,[57] Elden filed a lawsuit against Weddle, Cobain's estate, Grohl and Novoselic, claiming that the use of his likeness on the album cover was made without his consent or that of his legal guardians, that it violated federal child pornography statutes,[58] and that it resulted in "lifelong damages".[59] Elden said that, by refusing to censor the artwork with a sticker, Nirvana had failed to protect him from child sexual exploitation.[60] The lawsuit also stated that "Cobain chose the image depicting Spencer—like a sex worker—grabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body with his penis explicitly displayed".[61][62]

Attorney Jamie White criticized the lawsuit as "frivolous" and "really offensive to the true victims" of child sexual abuse. Fordham Law School professor James Cohen said the context of the cover did not suggest pornography. White and Cohen concluded that Elden intended to make money with the lawsuit.[63] In December, lawyers for the defendants sought to dismiss the lawsuit, saying it was filed too late and that its claim that the image depicts sexual abuse was "not serious". They noted that Elden had "spent three decades profiting from his celebrity as the self-anointed 'Nirvana Baby'", having recreated the artwork several times, and that he had the album title tattooed on his chest. They argued that the cover instead "evokes themes of greed, innocence, and the motif of the cherub in western art".[64] After Elden's lawyers did not file an opposition, the lawsuit was dismissed by a judge on January 3, 2022, however the judge did allow for future lawsuits.[65]

Elden refiled again on January 14, 2022, amending the original suit by removing charges of child sex trafficking while arguing it was child pornography.[66] On September 2, 2022, a judge ruled against Elden saying he had waited too long to file the suit and cited a 10-year statute of limitations from the date the plaintiff becomes an adult at age 18, meaning Elden needed to file before he turned 28. In addition the judge blocked any additional filings in the future, bringing the case to a "final" close, although Spencer says he intends to appeal.[67]

Release

Nevermind was released on September 24, 1991. American record stores received an initial shipment of 46,251 copies,[68] while 35,000 copies were shipped in the United Kingdom, where Bleach had been successful.[69] The lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" had been released on September 10 with the intention of building a base among alternative rock fans, while the next single "Come as You Are" would possibly garner more attention.[70] Days before the release date, the band began a short American tour in support of the album. Geffen hoped that Nevermind would sell around 250,000 copies, matching sales of Sonic Youth's Geffen debut Goo.[71] The most optimistic estimate was that Nevermind could be certified gold (500,000 copies sold) by September 1992.[72]

Nevermind debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 144.[73] Geffen shipped about half of the initial U.S. pressing to the American Northwest, where it sold out quickly and was unavailable for days. Geffen put production of all other albums on hold to fulfill demand in the region.[74] Over the next few months, sales increased significantly as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" unexpectedly increased in popularity. The song's video had received a world premiere on MTV's late-night alternative show 120 Minutes, and soon became popular enough for the network to start broadcasting it during the daytime.[75] "Smells Like Teen Spirit" reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100.[76] The album was soon certified gold, but the band was relatively uninterested. Novoselic recalled, "Yeah I was happy about it. It was pretty cool. It was kind of neat. But I don't give a shit about some kind of achievement like that. It's cool—I guess."[77]

As the band set out for their European tour at the start of November 1991, Nevermind entered the Billboard Top 40 for the first time at number 35. By this point, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" had become a hit and the album was selling so fast none of Geffen's marketing strategies could be enacted. Geffen president Ed Rosenblatt told The New York Times, "We didn't do anything. It was just one of those 'Get out of the way and duck' records."[78] Nirvana found as they toured Europe during the end of 1991 that the shows were dangerously oversold, television crews became a constant presence onstage, and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was almost omnipresent on radio and music television.[79]

Nevermind became Nirvana's first number-one album on January 11, 1992, replacing Michael Jackson's Dangerous at the top of the Billboard charts. By this time, Nevermind was selling approximately 300,000 copies a week.[80][81] It returned for a second week at number one in February.[82] "Come as You Are" was released as the second single in March 1992; it reached number nine on the UK Singles Chart and number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[83] Two more singles, "Lithium" and "In Bloom", reached number 11 and 28 on the UK Singles Chart.[84]

Nevermind was certified gold and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in November 1991 and certified Diamond in March 1999.[85] It was also certified Diamond in Canada (1,000,000 units sold) by the Canadian Recording Industry Association in March 2001[86] and six times platinum in the United Kingdom.[87] It has gone on to sell more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.[88]

Critical reception

Contemporary professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Chicago Tribune    [89]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[90]
Los Angeles Times    [91]
NME9/10[92]
Q     [93]
Rolling Stone     [94]
Select4/5[95]
The Village VoiceA−[96]

Geffen's press promotion for Nevermind was lower than that typical of a major record label. The label's publicist primarily targeted music publications with long lead times for publication as well as magazines in the Seattle area. The unexpectedly positive feedback from critics who had received the album convinced the label to consider increasing the album's original print run.[69]

At first, Nevermind did not receive many reviews, and many publications ignored the album. Months after its release and after "Smells Like Teen Spirit" garnered airplay, print media organizations were "scrambling" to cover the phenomenon the album had become. However, by that point, much of the attention fell on Cobain rather than the album itself. The reviews that did initially appear were largely positive.[97] Karen Schoemer of The New York Times wrote, "With 'Nevermind,' Nirvana has certainly succeeded. There are enough intriguing textures, mood shifts, instrumental snippets and inventive word plays to provide for hours of entertainment." Schoemer concluded, "'Nevermind' is more sophisticated and carefully produced than anything peer bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Mudhoney have yet offered."[98]

Entertainment Weekly gave Nevermind an A− rating, and reviewer David Browne argued that on Nevermind, Nirvana "never entertain the notion" of wanting to sound "normal", compared to other contemporary alternative bands.[90] Concluding his enthusiastic review for the British Melody Maker, Everett True wrote that "When Nirvana released Bleach all those years ago, the more sussed among us figured they had the potential to make an album that would blow every other contender away. My God have they proved us right."[99] Spin gave Nevermind a favorable review stating that "you'll be humming all the songs for the rest of your life—or at least until your CD-tape-album wears out."[100] Select compared the band to Jane's Addiction, Sonic Youth, and Pixies, stating that the album "proves that Nirvana truly belong in such high company."[95]

Some reviews were not entirely positive. Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars. Reviewer Ira Robbins wrote, "If Nirvana isn't onto anything altogether new, Nevermind does possess the songs, character and confident spirit to be much more than a reformulation of college radio's high-octane hits."[94] The Boston Globe was less enthusiastic about the album; reviewer Steve Morse wrote, "Most of Nevermind is packed with generic punk-pop that had been done by countless acts from Iggy Pop to the Red Hot Chili Peppers," and added "the band has little or nothing to say, settling for moronic ramblings by singer-lyricist Cobain."[101]

Nevermind was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll; "Smells Like Teen Spirit" also topped the single of the year and video of the year polls.[102] Nevermind topped the poll by a large majority, and Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote in his companion piece to the poll, "As a modest pop surprise they might have scored a modest victory, like De La Soul in 1990. Instead, their multi-platinum takeover constituted the first full-scale public validation of the Amerindie values—the noise, the toons, the 'tude—the radder half of the [Pazz & Jop poll] electorate came up on."[103] In the United Kingdom, the album was ranked number one on NME's Best Fifty LPs of 1991.[104] The album garnered the band three Grammy Award nominations in total at the 34th and 35th Grammy Awards.[105] Among the nominations was the Best Alternative Music Album award.[105]

Legacy

 
Bassist Krist Novoselic at a Nevermind 20th anniversary show in 2011

Nevermind popularized the Seattle grunge movement and brought alternative rock as a whole into the mainstream, establishing its commercial and cultural viability[106] and leading to an alternative rock boom in the music industry.[107] Though a short tenure from the album's release to the death of Cobain, the album's and singles' success propelled Nirvana to being regarded by the media as the biggest band in the world — especially throughout 1992.[108] As a grunge act, the band's success over the popular hair metal acts of the time drew similarities to the early 1960s British Invasion of American popular music.[36] The album also initiated a resurgence of interest in punk culture among teenagers and young adults of Generation X.[109] Journalist Chuck Eddy cited Nevermind's release as roughly the end of the "high album era".[110]

Billboard writer William Goodman lauds the album, particularly in comparison to the music and image of hair metal acts: "Instead of the chest-beating, coke-blowing, women-objectifying macho rock star of the ’80s, Cobain popularized (or re-invigorated) the image of the sensitive artist, the pro-feminism, anti-authoritarian smart alec punk with a sweet smile and gentle soul."[40] In its citation placing it at number 17 in its 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, Rolling Stone said, "No album in recent history had such an overpowering impact on a generation—a nation of teens suddenly turned punk—and such a catastrophic effect on its main creator."[111] Gary Gersh, who signed Nirvana to Geffen Records, added that "There is a pre-Nirvana and post-Nirvana record business...'Nevermind' showed that this wasn't some alternative thing happening off in a corner, and then back to reality. This is reality."[112]

The album had an enormous impact towards youth culture. Goodman says that Nevermind "killed off hair metal, and sparked a cultural revolution across the globe".[40] Speaking to the BBC, Brazilian cultural studies academic Moyses Pinto stated that he was struck by Nevermind, saying "I thought: 'this is perfect'; it sounded like a bright synthesis of noise and pop music."[113] In similar praise, Kgomotso Neto says that the impact of Nirvana, as well as MTV, during the time of Nevermind, caused a new youth who listened to the same music and dressed similarly (grunge fashion). Neto further remarks that "there was a cultural homogeneity probably never experienced before" and that "grunge culture became dominant very quickly; all that had been 'cool' suddenly became ugly and exaggerated, and Kurt [Cobain] was the symbol of transgression."[113] Michael Azerrad argued in his Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana (1993) that Nevermind marked an epochal generational shift in music similar to the rock-and-roll explosion in the 1950s and the end of the dominance of the baby boomer generation on popular music. Azerrad wrote, "Nevermind came along at exactly the right time. This was music by, for, and about a whole new group of young people who had been overlooked, ignored, or condescended to."[114]

The success of Nevermind surprised Nirvana's contemporaries, who felt dwarfed by its influence. Fugazi frontman Guy Picciotto later said: "It was like our record could have been a hobo pissing in the forest for the amount of impact it had ... It felt like we were playing ukuleles all of a sudden because of the disparity of the impact of what they did."[115] Karen Schoemer of the New York Times wrote that "What's unusual about Nirvana's Nevermind is that it caters to neither a mainstream audience nor the indie rock fans who supported the group's debut album."[116] In 1992, Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the aftermath of the album's breakthrough: "Suddenly, all bets are off. No one has the inside track on which of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of ornery, obstreperous, unkempt bands might next appeal to the mall-walking millions." Record company executives offered large advances and record deals to bands, and replaced their previous strategies of building audiences for alternative bands with the attempts to achieve mainstream popularity quickly.[117]

Retrospective professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [118]
The A.V. ClubA[119]
Blender     [120]
Christgau's Consumer GuideA[121]
The Daily Telegraph     [122]
Pitchfork10/10[123]
Q     [124]
Rolling Stone     [125]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [126]
Spin     [127]

Nevermind has continued to garner critical praise, has been ranked highly on lists of the most acclaimed albums of all time and is ranked the best album of the 1990s according to Acclaimed Music which statistically aggregates hundreds of published lists.[128] The album was ranked number 17 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[111] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list,[129] and upgrading to number 6 in 2020 revised list.[130] In 2019, Rolling Stone also ranked Nevermind number one on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the '90s, calling it the "album that guaranteed the nineties would not suck."[131] Also in 2019, Nevermind was ranked number one on Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Grunge Albums list.[132] The magazine ranked the album number 10 in its list of 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time too.[133] In 2001, VH1 conducted a poll of more than 500 journalists, music executives and artists which judged Nevermind the second-best album in rock 'n' roll history, behind the Beatles' Revolver.[134] Time placed Nevermind, which writer Josh Tyrangiel called "the finest album of the 90s", on its 2006 list of "The All-TIME 100 Albums".[135] Pitchfork named the album the sixth best of the decade, noting that "anyone who hates this record today is just trying to be cool, and needs to be trying harder."[136] In 2004, the Library of Congress added Nevermind to the National Recording Registry, which collects "culturally, historically or aesthetically important" sound recordings from the 20th century.[137] On the other hand, Nevermind was voted the "Most Overrated Album in the World" in a 2005 BBC public poll.[138] In 2006, readers of Guitar World ranked Nevermind 8th on a list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Recordings.[139] Entertainment Weekly named it the 10th best album of all time on their 2013 list.[140] It was voted number 17 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).[141] Christgau named it among his 10 best albums from the 1990s and said in retrospect it is an A-plus album.[142] In 2017, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[143]

Reissues

In 1996, Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs released Nevermind on vinyl as part of its ANADISQ 200 series, and as a 24-karat gold CD. The CD pressings included "Endless, Nameless". The LP version quickly sold out its limited pressing but the CD edition stayed in print for years.[144] In 2009, Original Recordings Group released Nevermind on limited edition 180g blue vinyl and regular 180g black vinyl mastered and cut by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes.[145]

In September 2011, the album's 20th anniversary, Universal Music Enterprises reissued Nevermind in a two-CD "deluxe edition" and a four-CD/one-DVD "Super Deluxe Edition".[146] The first disc on both editions features the original album with studio and live B-sides. The second discs feature early session recordings, including the Smart Studio sessions and some band rehearsals recorded with a boombox, plus two BBC session recordings. The "Super Deluxe Edition" also includes Vig's original mix of the album and CD and DVD versions of Live at the Paramount. IFPI reported that as of 2012, the 20th anniversary formats of the album that were released in 2011 had sold nearly 800,000 units.[147] In June 2021, Novoselic revealed that he and Grohl were compiling the 30th-anniversary edition of the album.[148][149][150] In September 2021, it was announced that BBC Two in the United Kingdom would celebrate the 30th anniversary with a documentary titled When Nirvana Came to Britain, which featured contributions from Noveselic and Grohl.[151] That same month, a 30th-anniversary edition of Nevermind was announced, which became available in eight-LP and five-CD editions and contained 70 previously unreleased live songs. The CD edition also included a blu-ray of Live in Amsterdam.[152]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kurt Cobain, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Smells Like Teen Spirit"
5:01
2."In Bloom" 4:14
3."Come as You Are" 3:39
4."Breed" 3:03
5."Lithium" 4:17
6."Polly" 2:57
7."Territorial Pissings"
2:22
8."Drain You" 3:43
9."Lounge Act" 2:36
10."Stay Away" 3:32
11."On a Plain" 3:16
12."Something in the Way"
3:52
13."Endless, Nameless" (hidden track on later CD pressings)
  • Cobain
  • Novoselic
  • Grohl
6:43
Total length:49:07

Notes

  • After the initial pressing, CD versions included "Endless, Nameless" as a hidden track which begins after 10 minutes of silence following "Something in the Way", making track 12's total length 20:35. The song is not included on vinyl versions.

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[315] 3× Platinum 180,000^
Australia (ARIA)[316] 5× Platinum 350,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[317] Platinum 50,000*
Belgium (BEA)[318] 8× Platinum 400,000 
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[319] Platinum 250,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[320] Diamond 1,000,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[321] 6× Platinum 120,000 
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[322] Gold 46,830[322]
France (SNEP)[323] Diamond 1,000,000*
Germany (BVMI)[324] 2× Platinum 1,000,000^
Italy (FIMI)[325]
sales since 2009 		4× Platinum 200,000 
Japan (RIAJ)[326] 3× Platinum 600,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[327] 2× Gold 200,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[328] Platinum 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[329] 7× Platinum 105,000^
Poland (ZPAV)[330]
BMG release 		Platinum 100,000*
Poland (ZPAV)[331]
Geffen/Universal Music release 		3× Platinum 60,000 
Portugal (AFP)[332] Platinum 40,000^
Singapore — 35,000[333]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[334] Platinum 100,000^
Sweden (GLF)[335] 2× Platinum 200,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[336] Platinum 50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[337] 6× Platinum 1,800,000 
United States (RIAA)[340] Diamond 10,640,000[338][339]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
  Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Novoselic sarcastically sang the chorus of the Youngbloods song "Get Together". Cobain explained to Brazilian publication O Globo: "The song speaks of people who join together to be cool and try something new, the ideal contrast to the macho men I'm portraying in 'Territorial Pissings.' We didn't mean to be offensive to the guy who wrote it. The idea of being positive and causing change in society and the world was appropriated by media, who turned it into something ridiculous, a caricature."[153]

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Further reading

  • Classic Albums—Nirvana: Nevermind [DVD]. Isis Productions, 2004.
  • Azerrad, Michael. Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. Doubleday, 1993. ISBN 0-385-47199-8
  • Berkenstadt, Jim; Cross, Charles. Classic Rock Albums: Nevermind. Schirmer, 1998. ISBN 0-02-864775-0
  • Cross, Charles. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain. Hyperion, 2001. ISBN 0-7868-8402-9
  • Sandford, Christopher. Kurt Cobain. Carroll & Graff, 1995. ISBN 0-7867-1369-0

External links

 
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This article is about the album by Nirvana For other uses see Nevermind disambiguation Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana released on September 24 1991 by DGC Records It was Nirvana s first release on a major label and the first to feature drummer Dave Grohl Produced by Butch Vig Nevermind features a more polished radio friendly sound than the band s prior work 4 It was recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys California and Smart Studios in Madison Wisconsin in May and June 1991 and mastered that August at the Mastering Lab in Hollywood California NevermindStudio album by NirvanaReleasedSeptember 24 1991 1991 09 24 RecordedMay 2 28 1991 1 2 June 1 9 1991 mixing 3 April 1990 Polly StudioSound City Van Nuys California Smart Madison Wisconsin GenreGrungealternative rockLength42 36 49 07 with hidden track LabelDGCProducerButch VigNirvana chronologyBlew 1989 Nevermind 1991 Nevermind It s an Interview 1992 Singles from Nevermind Smells Like Teen Spirit Released September 10 1991 Come as You Are Released March 3 1992 Lithium Released July 13 1992 In Bloom Released November 30 1992Written primarily by frontman Kurt Cobain Nevermind is noted for channeling a range of emotions being noted as dark humorous and disturbing It includes anti establishment views anti sexism frustration alienation and troubled love inspired by Cobain s broken relationship with Bikini Kill s Tobi Vail Contrary to the popular hedonistic themes of drugs and sex at the time writers have observed that Nevermind re invigorated sensitivity to mainstream rock According to Cobain the sound of the album was influenced by bands such as Pixies R E M the Smithereens and Melvins Though the album is considered a cornerstone of the grunge genre it is noted for its musical diversity which includes acoustic ballads Polly and Something in the Way and punk inspired hard rock Territorial Pissings and Stay Away 5 Nevermind became an unexpected critical and commercial success hitting top 10 charts across the world By January 1992 it reached number one on the US Billboard 200 and was selling approximately 300 000 copies a week The lead single Smells Like Teen Spirit reached the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 and went on to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Its video was also heavily rotated on MTV Three other successful singles were released Come as You Are Lithium and In Bloom The album was voted the best album of the year in Pazz amp Jop critics poll while Smells Like Teen Spirit also topped the single of the year and video of the year polls The album also garnered the band three Grammy Award nominations in total across the 34th and 35th Grammy Awards including Best Alternative Music Album Nevermind and its singles success propelled Nirvana to being widely regarded as the biggest band of the 1990s with Cobain being dubbed by critics as the voice of his generation The album brought grunge and alternative rock to a mainstream audience while ending the dominance of hair metal drawing similarities to the early 1960s British Invasion of American popular music It is also often credited with initiating a resurgence of interest in punk culture among teenagers and young adults of Generation X becoming seminal to the counterculture of the decade It has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide making it one of the best selling albums of all time In March 1999 it was certified Diamond by the RIAA Among the most acclaimed and influential albums in the history of music Nevermind was added to the National Recording Registry in 2004 as culturally historically or aesthetically significant and is frequently ranked highly on lists of the greatest albums of all time The album has since been reissued with alternate takes and live performances Contents 1 Background and early sessions 2 Recording 2 1 Mixing and mastering 3 Music 3 1 Lyrics 4 Title 5 Artwork 5 1 Spencer Elden lawsuits 6 Release 7 Critical reception 8 Legacy 8 1 Reissues 9 Track listing 10 Personnel 11 Charts 11 1 Weekly charts 11 2 Year end charts 11 3 Decade end charts 12 Certifications 13 See also 14 Notes 15 References 16 Further reading 17 External linksBackground and early sessions EditIn early 1990 Nirvana began planning their second album for their record company Sub Pop tentatively titled Sheep At the suggestion of Sub Pop head Bruce Pavitt Nirvana selected Butch Vig as producer 6 The band particularly liked Vig s work with Killdozer 7 They traveled to Vig s Smart Studios in Madison Wisconsin and recorded from April 2 to 6 1990 8 Most of the basic arrangements were complete but songwriter Kurt Cobain was still working on lyrics and the band was unsure of which songs to record 9 Ultimately eight were recorded some of which appeared on Nevermind Imodium later renamed Breed Dive later released as the B side to Sliver In Bloom Pay to Play later renamed Stay Away Sappy Lithium Here She Comes Now released on Heaven amp Hell A Tribute to the Velvet Underground and Polly 10 On April 6 Nirvana played a local show in Madison with fellow Seattle band Tad 11 Vig began to mix the recordings while the band gave an interview to Madison s community radio station WORT on April 7 12 Cobain strained his voice forcing Nirvana to end recording On April 8 they travelled to Milwaukee to begin an extensive midwest and east coast tour of 24 shows in 39 days 13 Drummer Chad Channing left after the tour putting additional recording on hold 14 During a show by hardcore punk band Scream Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic were impressed by their drummer Dave Grohl When Scream unexpectedly disbanded Grohl contacted Novoselic travelled to Seattle and was invited to join the band Novoselic said in retrospect that with Grohl everything fell into place 6 By the 1990s Sub Pop was having financial problems With rumors that they would become a subsidiary of a major record label Nirvana decided to cut out the middleman and look for a major record label 6 Nirvana used the recordings as a demo tape to shop for a new label Within a few months the tape was circulating amongst major labels 14 A number of labels courted them Nirvana signed with Geffen Records imprint DGC Records based on recommendations from Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and their management company 15 After Nirvana signed to DGC a number of producers were suggested including Scott Litt David Briggs Don Dixon and Bob Mould 16 Novoselic said the band had been nervous about recording under a major label and the producers suggested by DGC wanted percentage points Instead the band held out for Vig with whom they felt comfortable collaborating 17 Recording Edit Producer Butch Vig in 2010With a budget of 65 000 Nirvana recorded Nevermind at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys California in May and June 1991 18 To earn gas money to get to Los Angeles they played a show where they performed Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time 6 The band sent Vig rehearsal tapes prior to the sessions that featured songs recorded previously at Smart Studios plus new songs including Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come as You Are 19 Nirvana arrived in California and spent a few days rehearsing and working on arrangements 20 The only recording carried over from the Smart Studios sessions was Polly including Channing s cymbal crashes Once recording commenced the band worked eight to ten hours a day 21 Despite receiving a 287 000 advance upon signing with Geffen Cobain retained a preference for inexpensive equipment particularly Japanese made Fender guitars due to their skinny necks and wider availability in lefthanded orientation 22 These included several Stratocasters fitted with humbucker pickups in the bridge positions as well as a 1965 Jaguar with DiMarzio pickups and a 1969 Mustang the latter of which Cobain cited as his favorite due its design flaws 22 For the album Cobain bought a rackmount system featuring a Mesa Boogie Studio preamp a Crown power amp and Marshall cabinets He also used a Vox AC30 and a Fender Bassman Vig preferred not to use pedals but allowed Cobain to use a Boss DS 1 distortion pedal which Cobain considered a key part of his sound as well as an Electro Harmonix Big Muff fuzz pedal and a Small Clone chorus 22 Novoselic and Grohl finished their tracks in days while Cobain worked longer on guitar overdubs vocals and lyrics He sometimes finished lyrics minutes before recording 23 Vig recalled that Cobain was often reluctant to record overdubs but was persuaded to double track his vocals when he told him that John Lennon did it 6 Though the sessions generally went well Vig said Cobain would become difficult at times He d be great for an hour and then he d sit in a corner and say nothing for an hour 7 Mixing and mastering Edit Vig and the band were unhappy with Vig s initial mixes and decided to bring in someone else to oversee the mixing DGC supplied a list of options including Scott Litt known for his work with R E M and Ed Stasium known for his work with the Ramones and the Smithereens Cobain was concerned about bringing in well known producers and instead chose Andy Wallace who had co produced Slayer s 1990 album Seasons in the Abyss 24 Novoselic recalled We said right on because those Slayer records were so heavy 25 Wallace s mixes most notably altered the drum and guitar sounds 26 According to Wallace and Vig the band loved the results 27 However they criticized it after the album was released Steve Albini who engineered Nirvana s next album In Utero 1993 said Vig s initial mix sounded maybe 200 times more ass kicking than the final version of Nevermind and that Nirvana referred to it while working on In Utero 28 Nevermind was mastered by Howie Weinberg on the afternoon of August 2 at the Mastering Lab in Hollywood California Weinberg started working alone when no one else arrived at the appointed time in the studio by the time Nirvana Andy Wallace and Gary Gersh arrived he had mastered most of the album 29 A hidden track Endless Nameless intended to appear at the end of Something in the Way was accidentally left off initial pressings of the album Weinberg recalled In the beginning it was kind of a verbal thing to put that track at the end Maybe I didn t write it down when Nirvana or the record company said to do it So when they pressed the first twenty thousand or so CDs albums and cassettes it wasn t on there Cobain called Weinberg and demanded he rectify the mistake 30 Music EditAt the time of writing Nevermind Cobain was listening to bands such as Melvins R E M the Smithereens and Pixies and was writing songs that were more melodic A key development was the single Sliver released on Sub Pop in 1990 before Grohl joined which Cobain said was like a statement in a way I had to write a pop song and release it on a single to prepare people for the next record I wanted to write more songs like that 31 Grohl said that the band at that point likened their music to children s music in that they tried to make their songs as simple as possible 6 Cobain fashioned chord sequences using primarily power chords and wrote songs that combined pop hooks with dissonant guitar riffs His aim for Nevermind s material was to sound like the Knack and the Bay City Rollers getting molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath 32 Many songs feature shifts in dynamics whereby the band changes from quiet verses to loud choruses Grohl said this approach originated during a four month period prior to the recording of the album when the band would experiment with extreme dynamics during regular jam sessions 33 Guitar World wrote Kurt Cobain s guitar sound on Nirvana s Nevermind set the tone for Nineties rock music Cobain played a 1960s Fender Mustang a Fender Jaguar with DiMarzio pickups and a few Fender Stratocasters with humbucker bridge pickups He used distortion and chorus pedals as his main effects the latter used to generate a watery sound on Come as You Are and the pre choruses of Smells Like Teen Spirit 34 Novoselic tuned down his bass guitar one and a half steps to D flat to get this fat ass sound 17 After the release of Nevermind members of Nirvana expressed dissatisfaction with the production for its perceived commercial sound Cobain said I m embarrassed by it now It s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record 26 In 2011 Vig said that Nirvana had loved Nevermind when they finished it He said Cobain had criticized it in the press because you can t really go Hey I love our record and I m glad it sold 10 million copies That s just not cool to do And I think he felt like he wanted to do something more primal 35 Lyrics Edit The album is noted for channeling a range of emotions being noted as dark humorous and disturbing 36 Thematically it includes anti establishment views 37 and lyrics about sexism 38 frustration loneliness sickness and troubled love 39 Contrary to the popular hedonistic themes of drugs and sex at the time writers have observed that the album re invigorated sensitivity to mainstream rock 40 Cobain said that the lyrics were taken from two years of poetry he accumulated which he then cut up and chose lines he preferred 41 On the other hand Grohl has said that Cobain told him Music comes first and lyrics come second and Grohl believes that above all Cobain focused on the melodies of his songs 6 Cobain was still working on the album s lyrics well into the recording of Nevermind Additionally Cobain s phrasing on the album is often difficult to understand Vig asserted that clarity of Cobain s singing was not paramount Vig said Even though you couldn t quite tell what he was singing about you knew it was intense as hell 6 Cobain later complained when rock journalists attempted to decipher his singing and extract meaning from his lyrics writing Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation of my lyrics when 90 percent of the time they ve transcribed them incorrectly 42 Charles R Cross asserted in his 2001 biography of Cobain Heavier Than Heaven that many of the songs written for Nevermind were about Cobain s dysfunctional relationship with Tobi Vail After their relationship ended Cobain began writing and painting violent scenes many of which revealed a hatred for himself and others Songs written during this period were less violent but still reflected anger absent from Cobain s earlier songs Cross wrote In the four months following their break up Kurt would write a half dozen of his most memorable songs all of them about Tobi Vail Drain You begins with the line One baby to another said I m lucky to have met you quoting what Vail had once told Cobain and the line It is now my duty to completely drain you refers to the power Vail had over Cobain in their relationship According to Novoselic Lounge Act is about Tobi and the song contains the line I ll arrest myself I ll wear a shield referring to Cobain having the K Records logo tattooed on his arm to impress Vail Though Lithium had been written before Cobain knew Vail the lyrics of the song were changed to reference her 43 Cobain also said in an interview with Musician that some of my very personal experiences like breaking up with girlfriends and having bad relationships feeling that death void that the person in the song is feeling very lonely sick 44 Title EditThe tentative title Sheep was something Cobain created as an inside joke directed towards the people he expected to buy the album He wrote a fake advertisement for Sheep in his journal that read Because you want to not because everyone else is 45 Novoselic said the inspiration for the title was the band s cynicism about the public s reaction to Operation Desert Storm 17 As recording ended Cobain grew tired of the title and suggested to Novoselic that the album be named Nevermind Cobain liked the title because it was a metaphor for his attitude on life and because it was grammatically incorrect 46 Sacagawea after the Native American was briefly considered so to reference the band s intentions for a more widespread impact compared to their previous studio album Bleach 47 Nevermind appears on the album liner notes as the last word in a paragraph of lyric fragments that ends with I found it hard it was hard to find oh well whatever nevermind from Smells Like Teen Spirit 48 The word nevermind also echoes the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks Here s the Sex Pistols one of Cobain s favorite albums 49 Artwork EditThe album cover shows a naked baby boy swimming underwater with a U S dollar bill on a fishhook just out of his reach According to Cobain he conceived the idea while watching a television program on water births Cobain mentioned it to Geffen s art director Robert Fisher Fisher found some stock footage of underwater births but they were too graphic for the record company to use Furthermore the stock house that controlled the photo of a swimming baby that they chose wanted 7 500 a year for its use Instead Fisher sent a photographer Kirk Weddle to a pool for babies to take pictures Five shots resulted and the band settled on the image of four month old Spencer Elden the son of a friend of Weddle 50 Geffen was concerned that the infant s penis visible in the photo would cause offense and prepared an alternate cover without it they relented when Cobain said the only compromise he would accept would be a sticker covering the penis reading If you re offended by this you must be a closet pedophile 51 The cover has since been recognized as one of the most famous album covers in popular music 52 A few months after the original baby shot Weddle also photographed the entire band underwater for a promotional poster 53 The back cover features a photograph of a rubber monkey in front of a collage created by Cobain The collage features photos of raw beef from a supermarket advertisement images from Dante s Inferno and pictures of diseased vaginas from Cobain s collection of medical photos Cobain noted If you look real close there is a picture of Kiss in the back standing on a slab of beef 54 The album s liner notes contain no complete lyrics instead the liner contains random song lyrics and unused lyrical fragments that Cobain arranged into a poem 55 A year later Weird Al Yankovic parodied the artwork for his album Off the Deep End replacing the baby with himself wearing a bathing suit except it is hidden and the dollar with a donut He would later jokingly state I never really anticipated going full frontal on any of my album covers 56 Spencer Elden lawsuits Edit In August 2021 57 Elden filed a lawsuit against Weddle Cobain s estate Grohl and Novoselic claiming that the use of his likeness on the album cover was made without his consent or that of his legal guardians that it violated federal child pornography statutes 58 and that it resulted in lifelong damages 59 Elden said that by refusing to censor the artwork with a sticker Nirvana had failed to protect him from child sexual exploitation 60 The lawsuit also stated that Cobain chose the image depicting Spencer like a sex worker grabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body with his penis explicitly displayed 61 62 Attorney Jamie White criticized the lawsuit as frivolous and really offensive to the true victims of child sexual abuse Fordham Law School professor James Cohen said the context of the cover did not suggest pornography White and Cohen concluded that Elden intended to make money with the lawsuit 63 In December lawyers for the defendants sought to dismiss the lawsuit saying it was filed too late and that its claim that the image depicts sexual abuse was not serious They noted that Elden had spent three decades profiting from his celebrity as the self anointed Nirvana Baby having recreated the artwork several times and that he had the album title tattooed on his chest They argued that the cover instead evokes themes of greed innocence and the motif of the cherub in western art 64 After Elden s lawyers did not file an opposition the lawsuit was dismissed by a judge on January 3 2022 however the judge did allow for future lawsuits 65 Elden refiled again on January 14 2022 amending the original suit by removing charges of child sex trafficking while arguing it was child pornography 66 On September 2 2022 a judge ruled against Elden saying he had waited too long to file the suit and cited a 10 year statute of limitations from the date the plaintiff becomes an adult at age 18 meaning Elden needed to file before he turned 28 In addition the judge blocked any additional filings in the future bringing the case to a final close although Spencer says he intends to appeal 67 Release EditNevermind was released on September 24 1991 American record stores received an initial shipment of 46 251 copies 68 while 35 000 copies were shipped in the United Kingdom where Bleach had been successful 69 The lead single Smells Like Teen Spirit had been released on September 10 with the intention of building a base among alternative rock fans while the next single Come as You Are would possibly garner more attention 70 Days before the release date the band began a short American tour in support of the album Geffen hoped that Nevermind would sell around 250 000 copies matching sales of Sonic Youth s Geffen debut Goo 71 The most optimistic estimate was that Nevermind could be certified gold 500 000 copies sold by September 1992 72 Nevermind debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 144 73 Geffen shipped about half of the initial U S pressing to the American Northwest where it sold out quickly and was unavailable for days Geffen put production of all other albums on hold to fulfill demand in the region 74 Over the next few months sales increased significantly as Smells Like Teen Spirit unexpectedly increased in popularity The song s video had received a world premiere on MTV s late night alternative show 120 Minutes and soon became popular enough for the network to start broadcasting it during the daytime 75 Smells Like Teen Spirit reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 76 The album was soon certified gold but the band was relatively uninterested Novoselic recalled Yeah I was happy about it It was pretty cool It was kind of neat But I don t give a shit about some kind of achievement like that It s cool I guess 77 As the band set out for their European tour at the start of November 1991 Nevermind entered the Billboard Top 40 for the first time at number 35 By this point Smells Like Teen Spirit had become a hit and the album was selling so fast none of Geffen s marketing strategies could be enacted Geffen president Ed Rosenblatt told The New York Times We didn t do anything It was just one of those Get out of the way and duck records 78 Nirvana found as they toured Europe during the end of 1991 that the shows were dangerously oversold television crews became a constant presence onstage and Smells Like Teen Spirit was almost omnipresent on radio and music television 79 Nevermind became Nirvana s first number one album on January 11 1992 replacing Michael Jackson s Dangerous at the top of the Billboard charts By this time Nevermind was selling approximately 300 000 copies a week 80 81 It returned for a second week at number one in February 82 Come as You Are was released as the second single in March 1992 it reached number nine on the UK Singles Chart and number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart 83 Two more singles Lithium and In Bloom reached number 11 and 28 on the UK Singles Chart 84 Nevermind was certified gold and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA in November 1991 and certified Diamond in March 1999 85 It was also certified Diamond in Canada 1 000 000 units sold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association in March 2001 86 and six times platinum in the United Kingdom 87 It has gone on to sell more than 30 million copies worldwide making it one of the best selling albums of all time 88 Critical reception EditContemporary professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingChicago Tribune 89 Entertainment WeeklyA 90 Los Angeles Times 91 NME9 10 92 Q 93 Rolling Stone 94 Select4 5 95 The Village VoiceA 96 Geffen s press promotion for Nevermind was lower than that typical of a major record label The label s publicist primarily targeted music publications with long lead times for publication as well as magazines in the Seattle area The unexpectedly positive feedback from critics who had received the album convinced the label to consider increasing the album s original print run 69 At first Nevermind did not receive many reviews and many publications ignored the album Months after its release and after Smells Like Teen Spirit garnered airplay print media organizations were scrambling to cover the phenomenon the album had become However by that point much of the attention fell on Cobain rather than the album itself The reviews that did initially appear were largely positive 97 Karen Schoemer of The New York Times wrote With Nevermind Nirvana has certainly succeeded There are enough intriguing textures mood shifts instrumental snippets and inventive word plays to provide for hours of entertainment Schoemer concluded Nevermind is more sophisticated and carefully produced than anything peer bands like Dinosaur Jr and Mudhoney have yet offered 98 Entertainment Weekly gave Nevermind an A rating and reviewer David Browne argued that on Nevermind Nirvana never entertain the notion of wanting to sound normal compared to other contemporary alternative bands 90 Concluding his enthusiastic review for the British Melody Maker Everett True wrote that When Nirvana released Bleach all those years ago the more sussed among us figured they had the potential to make an album that would blow every other contender away My God have they proved us right 99 Spin gave Nevermind a favorable review stating that you ll be humming all the songs for the rest of your life or at least until your CD tape album wears out 100 Select compared the band to Jane s Addiction Sonic Youth and Pixies stating that the album proves that Nirvana truly belong in such high company 95 Some reviews were not entirely positive Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars Reviewer Ira Robbins wrote If Nirvana isn t onto anything altogether new Nevermind does possess the songs character and confident spirit to be much more than a reformulation of college radio s high octane hits 94 The Boston Globe was less enthusiastic about the album reviewer Steve Morse wrote Most of Nevermind is packed with generic punk pop that had been done by countless acts from Iggy Pop to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and added the band has little or nothing to say settling for moronic ramblings by singer lyricist Cobain 101 Nevermind was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz amp Jop critics poll Smells Like Teen Spirit also topped the single of the year and video of the year polls 102 Nevermind topped the poll by a large majority and Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote in his companion piece to the poll As a modest pop surprise they might have scored a modest victory like De La Soul in 1990 Instead their multi platinum takeover constituted the first full scale public validation of the Amerindie values the noise the toons the tude the radder half of the Pazz amp Jop poll electorate came up on 103 In the United Kingdom the album was ranked number one on NME s Best Fifty LPs of 1991 104 The album garnered the band three Grammy Award nominations in total at the 34th and 35th Grammy Awards 105 Among the nominations was the Best Alternative Music Album award 105 Legacy Edit Bassist Krist Novoselic at a Nevermind 20th anniversary show in 2011 Nevermind popularized the Seattle grunge movement and brought alternative rock as a whole into the mainstream establishing its commercial and cultural viability 106 and leading to an alternative rock boom in the music industry 107 Though a short tenure from the album s release to the death of Cobain the album s and singles success propelled Nirvana to being regarded by the media as the biggest band in the world especially throughout 1992 108 As a grunge act the band s success over the popular hair metal acts of the time drew similarities to the early 1960s British Invasion of American popular music 36 The album also initiated a resurgence of interest in punk culture among teenagers and young adults of Generation X 109 Journalist Chuck Eddy cited Nevermind s release as roughly the end of the high album era 110 Billboard writer William Goodman lauds the album particularly in comparison to the music and image of hair metal acts Instead of the chest beating coke blowing women objectifying macho rock star of the 80s Cobain popularized or re invigorated the image of the sensitive artist the pro feminism anti authoritarian smart alec punk with a sweet smile and gentle soul 40 In its citation placing it at number 17 in its 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time Rolling Stone said No album in recent history had such an overpowering impact on a generation a nation of teens suddenly turned punk and such a catastrophic effect on its main creator 111 Gary Gersh who signed Nirvana to Geffen Records added that There is a pre Nirvana and post Nirvana record business Nevermind showed that this wasn t some alternative thing happening off in a corner and then back to reality This is reality 112 The album had an enormous impact towards youth culture Goodman says that Nevermind killed off hair metal and sparked a cultural revolution across the globe 40 Speaking to the BBC Brazilian cultural studies academic Moyses Pinto stated that he was struck by Nevermind saying I thought this is perfect it sounded like a bright synthesis of noise and pop music 113 In similar praise Kgomotso Neto says that the impact of Nirvana as well as MTV during the time of Nevermind caused a new youth who listened to the same music and dressed similarly grunge fashion Neto further remarks that there was a cultural homogeneity probably never experienced before and that grunge culture became dominant very quickly all that had been cool suddenly became ugly and exaggerated and Kurt Cobain was the symbol of transgression 113 Michael Azerrad argued in his Nirvana biography Come as You Are The Story of Nirvana 1993 that Nevermind marked an epochal generational shift in music similar to the rock and roll explosion in the 1950s and the end of the dominance of the baby boomer generation on popular music Azerrad wrote Nevermind came along at exactly the right time This was music by for and about a whole new group of young people who had been overlooked ignored or condescended to 114 The success of Nevermind surprised Nirvana s contemporaries who felt dwarfed by its influence Fugazi frontman Guy Picciotto later said It was like our record could have been a hobo pissing in the forest for the amount of impact it had It felt like we were playing ukuleles all of a sudden because of the disparity of the impact of what they did 115 Karen Schoemer of the New York Times wrote that What s unusual about Nirvana s Nevermind is that it caters to neither a mainstream audience nor the indie rock fans who supported the group s debut album 116 In 1992 Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the aftermath of the album s breakthrough Suddenly all bets are off No one has the inside track on which of dozens perhaps hundreds of ornery obstreperous unkempt bands might next appeal to the mall walking millions Record company executives offered large advances and record deals to bands and replaced their previous strategies of building audiences for alternative bands with the attempts to achieve mainstream popularity quickly 117 Retrospective professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic 118 The A V ClubA 119 Blender 120 Christgau s Consumer GuideA 121 The Daily Telegraph 122 Pitchfork10 10 123 Q 124 Rolling Stone 125 The Rolling Stone Album Guide 126 Spin 127 Nevermind has continued to garner critical praise has been ranked highly on lists of the most acclaimed albums of all time and is ranked the best album of the 1990s according to Acclaimed Music which statistically aggregates hundreds of published lists 128 The album was ranked number 17 on Rolling Stone s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 111 maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list 129 and upgrading to number 6 in 2020 revised list 130 In 2019 Rolling Stone also ranked Nevermind number one on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the 90s calling it the album that guaranteed the nineties would not suck 131 Also in 2019 Nevermind was ranked number one on Rolling Stone s 50 Greatest Grunge Albums list 132 The magazine ranked the album number 10 in its list of 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time too 133 In 2001 VH1 conducted a poll of more than 500 journalists music executives and artists which judged Nevermind the second best album in rock n roll history behind the Beatles Revolver 134 Time placed Nevermind which writer Josh Tyrangiel called the finest album of the 90s on its 2006 list of The All TIME 100 Albums 135 Pitchfork named the album the sixth best of the decade noting that anyone who hates this record today is just trying to be cool and needs to be trying harder 136 In 2004 the Library of Congress added Nevermind to the National Recording Registry which collects culturally historically or aesthetically important sound recordings from the 20th century 137 On the other hand Nevermind was voted the Most Overrated Album in the World in a 2005 BBC public poll 138 In 2006 readers of Guitar World ranked Nevermind 8th on a list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Recordings 139 Entertainment Weekly named it the 10th best album of all time on their 2013 list 140 It was voted number 17 in the third edition of Colin Larkin s All Time Top 1000 Albums 2000 141 Christgau named it among his 10 best albums from the 1990s and said in retrospect it is an A plus album 142 In 2017 Smells Like Teen Spirit was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 143 Reissues Edit In 1996 Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs released Nevermind on vinyl as part of its ANADISQ 200 series and as a 24 karat gold CD The CD pressings included Endless Nameless The LP version quickly sold out its limited pressing but the CD edition stayed in print for years 144 In 2009 Original Recordings Group released Nevermind on limited edition 180g blue vinyl and regular 180g black vinyl mastered and cut by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes 145 In September 2011 the album s 20th anniversary Universal Music Enterprises reissued Nevermind in a two CD deluxe edition and a four CD one DVD Super Deluxe Edition 146 The first disc on both editions features the original album with studio and live B sides The second discs feature early session recordings including the Smart Studio sessions and some band rehearsals recorded with a boombox plus two BBC session recordings The Super Deluxe Edition also includes Vig s original mix of the album and CD and DVD versions of Live at the Paramount IFPI reported that as of 2012 the 20th anniversary formats of the album that were released in 2011 had sold nearly 800 000 units 147 In June 2021 Novoselic revealed that he and Grohl were compiling the 30th anniversary edition of the album 148 149 150 In September 2021 it was announced that BBC Two in the United Kingdom would celebrate the 30th anniversary with a documentary titled When Nirvana Came to Britain which featured contributions from Noveselic and Grohl 151 That same month a 30th anniversary edition of Nevermind was announced which became available in eight LP and five CD editions and contained 70 previously unreleased live songs The CD edition also included a blu ray of Live in Amsterdam 152 Track listing EditAll tracks are written by Kurt Cobain except where noted No TitleWriter s Length1 Smells Like Teen Spirit CobainKrist NovoselicDave Grohl5 012 In Bloom 4 143 Come as You Are 3 394 Breed 3 035 Lithium 4 176 Polly 2 577 Territorial Pissings CobainChet Powers a 1 2 228 Drain You 3 439 Lounge Act 2 3610 Stay Away 3 3211 On a Plain 3 1612 Something in the Way CobainMark Lanegan 154 3 5213 Endless Nameless hidden track on later CD pressings CobainNovoselicGrohl6 43Total length 49 07 Notes After the initial pressing CD versions included Endless Nameless as a hidden track which begins after 10 minutes of silence following Something in the Way making track 12 s total length 20 35 The song is not included on vinyl versions Personnel EditNirvana Kurt Cobain credited for the Monkey Photo as Kurdt Kobain vocals guitars photography Krist Novoselic credited as Chris Novoselic bass vocals on the intro of Territorial Pissings Dave Grohl drums backing vocalsAdditional musicians Chad Channing cymbals on Polly uncredited drums on the Smart Studio Sessions Deluxe Edition Kirk Canning cello on Something in the Way Technical staff and artwork Craig Doubet assistant engineering mixing Robin Sloane DGC Geffen Records Creative Director Kurt Cobain cover concept Spencer Elden infant in cover photo Robert Fisher artwork art direction design cover design Michael Lavine photography Bob Ludwig mastering on 20th Anniversary Edition Jeff Sheehan assistant engineer Butch Vig producer engineer Andy Wallace mixing Kirk Weddle cover photo Howie Weinberg mastering Paul Carlsen engineering digital editingCharts EditWeekly charts Edit Weekly chart performance for the original release Charts 1991 1992 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 155 2Australian Alternative Albums ARIA 156 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 157 2Belgian Albums IFPI Belgium 158 159 1Buenos Aires Albums UPI 160 1Canada Top Albums CDs RPM 161 1Canada Albums The Record 162 163 1Danish Albums Hitlisten 164 3Dutch Albums Album Top 100 165 3European Top 100 Albums Music amp Media 166 2Finnish Albums The Official Finnish Charts 167 1French Albums SNEP 168 1German Albums Offizielle Top 100 169 3Greek Albums IFPI Greece 170 1Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 171 12Irish Albums IFPI Ireland 172 1Italian Albums Musica e dischi 173 10New Zealand Albums RMNZ 174 2Norwegian Albums VG lista 175 2Portuguese Albums AFP 176 1Spanish Albums Spanish Albums Chart 177 2Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 178 1Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 179 2UK Network Albums MRIB 180 6UK Albums OCC 181 7US Billboard 200 182 1Zimbabwean Albums 183 4Charts 2015 PeakpositionPolish Albums ZPAV 184 11Charts 2017 PeakpositionCanadian Albums Billboard 185 46Chart 2019 PeakpositionBelgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 186 12US Top Rock Albums Billboard 187 16Chart 2021 PeakpositionCroatian International Albums HDU 188 21Polish Albums ZPAV 189 1US Top Rock Albums Billboard 190 9Weekly chart performance for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Nevermind Chart 2011 PeakpositionBelgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 191 7Danish Albums Hitlisten 192 16Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 193 41French Albums SNEP 194 5Greek Albums Billboard 195 5Italian Albums FIMI 196 20Japanese Albums Oricon 197 26Portuguese Albums AFP 198 1Scottish Albums OCC 199 4Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 200 12UK Albums Official Charts Company 201 5US Billboard 200 202 Super Deluxe Edition 131US Top Catalog Albums Billboard 203 2US Top Rock Albums Billboard 204 Super Deluxe Edition 34 Year end charts Edit Year end chart performance for Nevermind by Nirvana Chart 1991 PositionCanadian Albums RPM 205 87UK Albums OCC 206 89Chart 1992 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 207 17Austrian Albums O3 Austria 208 11Canada Top Albums RPM 209 8Dutch Albums MegaCharts 210 9Eurochart Top 100 Albums Music amp Media 211 5French Albums SNEP 212 4German Albums Offiziele Top 100 213 7New Zealand Albums RMNZ 214 8Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 215 10UK Albums OCC 206 22US Billboard 200 216 3Chart 1993 PositionUK Albums OCC 217 71Chart 1994 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 218 66Dutch Albums MegaCharts 219 55UK Albums OCC 220 80US Billboard 200 221 84Chart 1995 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 222 35Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 223 57Canada Top Albums CDs RPM 224 6UK Albums OCC 225 88US Billboard 200 226 115Chart 1996 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 227 49Chart 1998 PositionUK Albums OCC 228 117Chart 1999 PositionUK Albums OCC 229 135Chart 2001 PositionUK Albums OCC 230 168Chart 2002 PositionCanadian Alternative Albums Nielsen SoundScan 231 102Canadian Metal Albums Nielsen SoundScan 232 47UK Albums OCC 233 194Chart 2005 PositionBelgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Flanders 234 38Belgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Wallonia 235 22UK Albums OCC 236 160Chart 2006 PositionBelgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Flanders 237 16Belgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Wallonia 238 16Chart 2009 PositionBelgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Wallonia 239 50Chart 2011 PositionBelgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Flanders 240 22Belgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Wallonia 241 32Polish Albums ZPAV 242 97Italian Albums FIMI 243 97UK Vinyl Albums OCC 244 12UK Albums OCC 245 127Chart 2012 PositionBelgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Flanders 246 31Belgian Midprice Albums Ultratop Wallonia 247 33Chart 2013 PositionArgentine Albums CAPIF 248 66Chart 2015 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 249 98Italian Albums FIMI 250 98UK Vinyl Albums OCC 251 13Chart 2016 PositionItalian Albums FIMI 252 89Polish Albums ZPAV 253 96UK Vinyl Albums OCC 254 10US Billboard 200 255 161Chart 2017 PositionAustrian Albums O3 Austria 256 69Italian Albums FIMI 257 85UK Vinyl Albums OCC 258 15US Billboard 200 259 183US Top Rock Albums Billboard 260 30Chart 2018 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 261 3Austrian Albums O3 Austria 262 72Italian Albums FIMI 263 78Portuguese Albums AFP 264 138UK Vinyl Albums OCC 265 7US Top Rock Albums Billboard 266 55Chart 2019 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 267 17Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 268 76Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 269 106Italian Albums FIMI 270 84Portuguese Albums AFP 271 63UK Vinyl Albums OCC 272 14US Billboard 200 273 160US Top Rock Albums Billboard 274 27Chart 2020 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 275 10Austrian Albums O3 Austria 276 50Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 277 72Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 278 91Italian Albums FIMI 279 94UK Vinyl Albums OCC 280 4US Billboard 200 281 129US Top Rock Albums Billboard 282 13Chart 2021 PositionAustralian Vinyl Albums ARIA 283 2Austrian Albums O3 Austria 284 22Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 285 46Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 286 68German Albums Offizielle Top 100 287 68Italian Albums FIMI 288 61New Zealand Albums RMNZ 289 47Polish Albums ZPAV 290 34Portuguese Albums AFP 291 13UK Albums OCC 292 72US Billboard 200 293 97US Catalog Albums Billboard 294 21US Top Rock Albums Billboard 295 14Worldwide Vinyl Albums IFPI 296 8Chart 2022 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 297 44Austrian Albums O3 Austria 298 26Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 299 52Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 300 76Dutch Albums Album Top 100 301 42German Albums Offizielle Top 100 302 39Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 303 88Italian Vinyl Albums FIMI 304 19Lithuanian Albums AGATA 305 38New Zealand Albums RMNZ 306 47Polish Albums ZPAV 307 25Portuguese Albums AFP 308 11Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 309 88UK Albums OCC 310 58US Billboard 200 311 57US Top Rock Albums Billboard 312 6Decade end charts Edit Chart 1990 1999 PositionUS Billboard 200 313 32Chart 2010 2019 PositionUK Vinyl Albums OCC 314 9Certifications EditRegion Certification Certified units salesArgentina CAPIF 315 3 Platinum 180 000 Australia ARIA 316 5 Platinum 350 000 Austria IFPI Austria 317 Platinum 50 000 Belgium BEA 318 8 Platinum 400 000 Brazil Pro Musica Brasil 319 Platinum 250 000 Canada Music Canada 320 Diamond 1 000 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 321 6 Platinum 120 000 Finland Musiikkituottajat 322 Gold 46 830 322 France SNEP 323 Diamond 1 000 000 Germany BVMI 324 2 Platinum 1 000 000 Italy FIMI 325 sales since 2009 4 Platinum 200 000 Japan RIAJ 326 3 Platinum 600 000 Mexico AMPROFON 327 2 Gold 200 000 Netherlands NVPI 328 Platinum 100 000 New Zealand RMNZ 329 7 Platinum 105 000 Poland ZPAV 330 BMG release Platinum 100 000 Poland ZPAV 331 Geffen Universal Music release 3 Platinum 60 000 Portugal AFP 332 Platinum 40 000 Singapore 35 000 333 Spain PROMUSICAE 334 Platinum 100 000 Sweden GLF 335 2 Platinum 200 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 336 Platinum 50 000 United Kingdom BPI 337 6 Platinum 1 800 000 United States RIAA 340 Diamond 10 640 000 338 339 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone See also Edit1991 in music Album era Classic Albums Nirvana Nevermind Nevermind It s an Interview List of best selling albums List of best selling albums in Belgium List of best selling albums in France List of best selling albums in the United States List of diamond certified albums in Canada List of 200 Definitive Albums in the Rock and Roll Hall of FameNotes Edit Novoselic 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