The Rolling Stones have had NINE #1 ALBUMS in the United States:

Out Of Our Heads
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street
Goats Head Soup
It's Only Rock and Roll
Black and Blue
Some Girls
Emotional Rescue
Tattoo You

Interesting list. Six of the nine are past what most of us would consider to be their peak period. From 1973-1981, I think they sold an awful lot of albums based mainly on reputation, name recognition, and a great logo.

Paint it black topped the charts in 1990 in The netherlands because of the great succes of the series Tour of duty

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As for albums I have the below list and have noted different countries to be a little more interesting. If you know of others please add to this list as well.

1. The Rolling Stones (Australia)
2. The Rolling Stones 2 (UK)
3. Out of our heads (UK)
4. Aftermath (UK)
5. Their Satanic Majesties Request (Australia)
6. Let it bleed (UK)
7. Get yer ya-yas out (UK)
8. Sticky fingers (New Zealand)
9. Exile on Main street (Norway)
10.Goats head soup (US)
11.It's only rock n roll (US)
12.Black and blue (US)
13.Some girls (US)
14.Emotional rescue (US)
15.Tattoo you (US)
16.Still life (Sweden)
17.Undercover (Sweden)
18.Dirty work (Switzerland)
19.Steel wheels (Austria)
20.Voodoo lounge (Australia)
21.Stripped (Norway)
22.Bridges to Babylon (Sweden)
23.Forty Licks (Ireland)
24.A bigger bang (Argentina)
25.Shine a light (Croatia)

While I am wandering through the net looking for single charts, I happened to find some interesting things to fill this album list.

AROUND AND AROUND (Italy: #1, 1964)
BRAVO ROLLING STONES! (Germany: #1, 1966)
BETWEEN THE BUTTONS (Austria: #1, 1967)
STORY STONES (Holland: #1, 1976)
JUMP BACK (Argentina: #1, 2003)
LIVE LICKS (Argentina: #1, 2004)

I don't know anything about "Bravo" and "Story" albums. Local specialities?

- Doxa



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Of those album charts... Funny little fact: it looks like that of ALL their proper studio albums (I don't count the local oddities such 12x5, Now! DECEMBER'S CHILDREN and FLOWERS as those) only BEGGARS BANQUET couldn't top the charts in any country. What a loser album...

- Doxa

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I don't know anything about "Bravo" and "Story" albums. Local specialities?

- Doxa

my answer to squando as on page 1:

Bravo is a German only release from December 1965 - one of four new lps in that year in Germany! In Januar 1966 a Big Hits followed, but not the one we know. It was done in cooperation with a German tv magazine called Hör zu (translated: Listen to me - the tv magazine started as a radio magazine...). I don't know more about the history of that, but people like Nico Zentgraf or Dieter Hoffmann sure do.
It contains the following songs: Satisfaction, She Said Yeah, Time Is On My Side (organ intro; the guitar intro version was released on No.2... in january that year), I'm Alright (live), I'm Free, Gotta Get Away, Stoned, Get Off Of My Cloud, Talkin' 'Bout You, Come On, The Last Time, The Underassistant..., I Want To Be Loved, The Singer Not the Song.
Lots of hits and rarities that most countries would only be able to hear in the 70s (More Hot Rocks, No Stone Unturned)! Dieter Hoffmann (Basement News, Schwarzbuch/Black Book, Weissbuch/White Book) prized it (in the 90s) as up to 40 Euro.

JJHMick, thanks for your kind reply, and sorry for not noticing your informative post earlier. I made a fool of myself, actually...

Yeah, I remember seeing a picture of the cover of BRAVO somewhere. An interesting selection of songs.

- Doxa

Found another one Doxa. Was listening to the radio playing the number ones @ 1 (pm) in Australia and they played "She's a rainbow".

I'll get to updating the list to read as current a little later but it seems there are quite a few still out there we don't know about....

Also Doxa here's the source re "As tears go by" being a number 1 in Canada:

List of RPM number-one singles of 1966
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This is a list of the Canadian RPM magazine number one singles of 1966.

Volume:Issue Issue Date(s) Weeks on Top Song Artist
4:19 3 January 1 "Flowers on the Wall" The Statler Brothers
4:20 10 January 1 "Five O'Clock World" The Vogues
4:21 17 January 1 "No Matter What Shape" The T-Bones
4:22 24 January 1 "We Can Work It Out" The Beatles
4:23 31 January 1 "Yesterday Man" Chris Andrews
4:24 7 February 1 "As Tears Go By" The Rolling Stones
4:25 14 February 1 "My Love" Petula Clark
4:26 21 February 1 "Lightnin' Strikes" Lou Christie
5:1 28 February 1 "Michelle" David and Jonathan
5:2 7 March 1 "These Boots Are Made for Walking" Nancy Sinatra
5:3 14 March 1 "At the Scene" Dave Clark 5
5:4 21 March 1 "Listen People" Herman's Hermits †
5:5 28 March 1 "Nowhere Man" The Beatles
5:6 4 April 1 "Woman" Peter & Gordon
5:7 11 April 1 "Magic Town" The Vogues
5:8 18 April 1 "Daydream" Lovin' Spoonful
5:9 25 April 1 "Good Lovin'" Young Rascals
5:10 2 May 1 "Kicks" Paul Revere & the Raiders
5:11 9 May 1 "Good Lovin'" Young Rascals (returned to #1)
5:12-14 16 May-30 May 3 "Monday, Monday" The Mamas & the Papas
5:15 6 June 1 "When a Man Loves a Woman" Percy Sledge
5:16 13 June 1 "Paint It, Black" Rolling Stones
5:17 20 June 1 "Green Grass" Gary Lewis
5:18 27 June 1 "Sweet Talking Guy" Chiffons
5:19 4 July 1 "Paperback Writer" The Beatles
5:20 11 July 1 "Red Rubber Ball" The Cyrkle
5:21 18 July 1 "The Pied Piper" Crispian St. Peters
5:22 25 July 1 "Hanky Panky" Tommy James and the Shondells
5:23 1 August 1 "Sweet Pea" Tommy Roe
5:24 8 August 1 "I Saw Her Again" The Mamas & the Papas
5:25-26 15 August-22 August 2 "Summer in the City" Lovin' Spoonful
6:1 29 August 1 "See You in September" The Happenings
6:2 5 September 1 "Bus Stop" The Hollies
6:3 12 September 1 "Get Away" Georgie Fame
6:4 19 September 1 "Yellow Submarine"/"Eleanor Rigby" The Beatles
6:5 26 September 1 "Sunny Afternoon" The Kinks
6:6 3 October 1 "Cherish" The Association
6:7 10 October 1 "Black is Black" Los Bravos
6:8-9 17 October-24 October 2 "See See Rider" Eric Burdon and The Animals
6:10 31 October 1 "96 Tears" Question Mark & the Mysterians
6:11 7 November 1 "Last Train to Clarksville" The Monkees
6:12 14 November 1 "Dandy" Herman's Hermits
6:13 21 November 1 "Poor Side of Town" Johnny Rivers
6:14-15 28 November-5 December 2 "Winchester Cathedral" New Vaudeville Band
6:16 12 December 1 "Lady Godiva" Peter & Gordon
6:17 19 December 1 "Stop! Stop! Stop!" The Hollies
6:18 26 December 1 "I'm a Believer" The Monkees

In any case, it looks like Canada is a true Rolling Stones land!

- you better believe it, man!!

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Doxa,
I think you might be wrong there.
Paint it black entered the Dutch charts 28th Mai 1966 ,stayed there for 13 weeks and got to nr1.Source Hitdossier 1958/1987

Oh thanks! That makes sense. I really find it strange that it wasn't relaesed or a hit then as it was all over the world. So it topped the Dutch Charts twice. That's great. Still, the success of its "second coming" in Holland is wondering me. Something just "clicked" there I guess (the hype for URBAN JUNGLE tour?)

- Doxa

No, at that time the Tour of Duty tv show was on in the Netherlands, with the Paint it, Black intro. Saw a bloke at the Urban Jungle tour in Rotterdam wearing a Tour of Duty shirt, he got a nice long 'loser' from the crowd...

So Paint it, Black made it twice to no. 1 in the Netherlands with the same version by the same artits. Unique, never done before or after!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2009-06-10 17:24 by slasausjes.

"In any case, it looks like Canada is a true Rolling Stones land!

- you better believe it, man!!"

Yes very true. Canada also sent the moptops to the top of the charts 26 times as well I think.

Poor old "19th nervous breakdown". Kept off the top in Canada as well by that silly bloody Nancy Sinatra song.....

Very interesting thread. I believe that 'Little Queenie' from GYYYO was released as a single in Australia and went to No. 1; in fact it was the Stones last No. 1 in Australia (although 'Start Me Up' may have also reached the top of the charts here)!

Hi hassle1

"Start me up" was indeed a #1 in Oz. "Angie" in '73 topped the charts for four weeks in Oz also. They are the last two post HTW in '69 that I am currently aware of.

Interesting that LQ may have topped the charts here as well. Have to do some digging around and see what I can find.

ps - correction......"Angie" topped the charts for five weeks.



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"Found another one Doxa. Was listening to the radio playing the number ones @ 1 (pm) in Australia and they played "She's a rainbow".
"

And another yet - "You can't always get what you want". It was flipped by DJs in Aust apparently and also hit #1 in most major cities as the A side HTW already had.

Also "Still life" entered the number one spot in Sweden on June 30 1982,

I found one too,I was just reading the Rolling Stones complete discography.and it says here that Emotional Rescue-(the song not album) got to number 1 in the Philippines.



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"Tell me" made it to #1 in Sweden.

Go figure ha?

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"Tell me" made it to #1 in Sweden.

Go figure ha?

That's news! By the way, do you happen to have any further info or possible source for Swedish charts over-all? I'm interested in collecting all the Scandinavian chartings.

- Doxa



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Hi Doxa

No ma man I'm sorry I don't. I spotted this on Wikipedia in the singles section for the Stones. It appears to be recently added. They have some other chatings of the Stones thru the 60s if you wanna have a squizz:

[en.wikipedia.org]

Must get around to compiling a current list of what we have found thus far...

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Doxa,
I think you might be wrong there.
Paint it black entered the Dutch charts 28th Mai 1966 ,stayed there for 13 weeks and got to nr1.Source Hitdossier 1958/1987

Oh thanks! That makes sense. I really find it strange that it wasn't relaesed or a hit then as it was all over the world. So it topped the Dutch Charts twice. That's great. Still, the success of its "second coming" in Holland is wondering me. Something just "clicked" there I guess (the hype for URBAN JUNGLE tour?)

- Doxa

No, at that time the Tour of Duty tv show was on in the Netherlands, with the Paint it, Black intro. Saw a bloke at the Urban Jungle tour in Rotterdam wearing a Tour of Duty shirt, he got a nice long 'loser' from the crowd...

So Paint it, Black made it twice to no. 1 in the Netherlands with the same version by the same artits. Unique, never done before or after!

Now with Exile having #1 in the UK it's another unique effort. Will have to compile a Rolling Stones "One" ala the Beatles now, although I'll be drawing from a worldworld source as oppossed to the Beatles who drew only from US and UK.

Exile being #1 in Scotland might be a newbie as well. I didn't even know Scottish charts existed.

And "Exile on Main St." went to no.1 in Norway,38 years since last time the album went to no.1 in Norway.
38 years is the longest spell for any album in Norway doing this.

Hi Ruby Friday. Do you have access to any album or singles chart in your homeland that would be able to dig out the Stones chart history there?
38 year gap. That is bloody impressive when you really sit down and give it a few moments thought

They could easily make "Rolling Stones 1", based on British & United States chart toppers.

Here it is:

It's All Over Now
Little Red Rooster
The Last Time
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Get Off Of My Cloud
Paint It, Black
Ruby Tuesday
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Honky Tonk Women'
Brown Sugar
Angie
Miss You

It's not QUITE like 27 No. 1 singles, like The Fabs though...

'Satisfaction' and 'Last Time' Greece 1965

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Doxa,
I think you might be wrong there.
Paint it black entered the Dutch charts 28th Mai 1966 ,stayed there for 13 weeks and got to nr1.Source Hitdossier 1958/1987

Oh thanks! That makes sense. I really find it strange that it wasn't relaesed or a hit then as it was all over the world. So it topped the Dutch Charts twice. That's great. Still, the success of its "second coming" in Holland is wondering me. Something just "clicked" there I guess (the hype for URBAN JUNGLE tour?)

- Doxa

Wasn't their some TV show, "Tour of Duty", that featured the song at that time, and prompted the release?

I read that somewhere a few years ago...I know I've seen it as a single (a 45), from 1990.

Ok I've done as much digging as poss to date and have come up with (thanks to some other's especially Doxa's help) a list of every song that the Stones have had a country number one hit with.

So here our 32 #1 Licks album:

1 Not fade away (France)
2 Tell me (Sweden)
3 It's all over now (UK)
4 Little red rooster (UK)
5 Heart of Stone (Canada)
6 The last time (UK)
7 As tears go by (Canada)
8 Satisfaction (Greece)
9 Get off of my cloud (UK)
10 Under the boardwalk (Australia)
11 19th nervous breakdown (Italy)
12 Paint it black (UK)
13 Let's spend the night together (Germany)
14 Ruby Tuesday (US)
15 We Love You (Holland)
16 Dandelion (Holland)
17 She's A Rainbow (Canada)
18 Jumping Jack Flash (UK)
19 Honky tonk women (UK)
20 Brown sugar (US)
21 Angie (Norway)
22 Hot Stuff (France)
23 Miss you (US)
24 Emotional rescue (Philippines)
25 Start me up (Australia)
26 Waiting On a Friend (Canada)
27 Going To A Go-Go (Canada)
28 Undercover of he Night (Canada)
29 Harlem Shuffle (New Zealand)
30 Mixed emotions (Canada)
31 Anybody seen my baby (Canada)
32 Streets of love (Spain)


Four other local Australian ones (state only not nationally) are:

Route 66 (Sydney, NSW)
Walking the dog (Perth, WA)
Heart of stone (Perth, WA)
You can't always get what you want (Perth, WA)

Anyways there you have it. Hopefully in time we'll have more information at our disposal and can paint a more accurate picture.
Will post #1 albums next for those of you that are interested. No number 1 "Tumbling dice" insight....



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And here's the albums list.....and incredibly I could not find a country where Beggars Banquet hit top spot. A magnificent body of work such as that should get the next plug post Exile. Pity it won't due to good ole f'n A Klein. And I know I shouldn't have included Exile twice but I thought what the hell.

1 The Rolling Stones (Australia)
2 The Rolling Stones 2 (UK)
3 Around and around (Italy)
4 Out of our heads (UK)
5 Bravo (Germany) 1966
6 Aftermath (UK)
7 Between the buttons (Austria)
8 Their Satanic Majesties Request (Australia)
9 Let it bleed (UK)
10 Get yer ya-yas out (UK)
11 Sticky fingers (New Zealand)
12 Exile on Main street (Norway)
13 Goats head soup (US)
14 It's only rock n roll (US)
15 Black and blue (Germany)
16 Story Stones (Holland) 1976
17 Some girls (US)
18 Emotional rescue (US)
19 Tattoo you (US)
20 Still life (Sweden)
21 Undercover (Sweden)
22 Dirty work (Switzerland)
23 Steel wheels (Austria)
24 Voodoo lounge (Australia)
25 Stripped (Norway)
26 Bridges to Babylon (Sweden)
27 Forty Licks (Ireland)
28 Jump Back (Argentina)
29 Live Licks (Argentina)
30 A bigger bang (Denmark)
31 Shine a light (Croatia)
32 Exile on Main street (Scotland)

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And here's the albums list.....and incredibly I could not find a country where Beggars Banquet hit top spot. A magnificent body of work such as that should get the next plug post Exile. Pity it won't due to good ole f'n A Klein. And I know I shouldn't have included Exile twice but I thought what the hell.

1 The Rolling Stones (Australia)
2 The Rolling Stones 2 (UK)
3 Around and around (Italy)
4 Out of our heads (UK)
5 Bravo (Germany) 1966
6 Aftermath (UK)
7 Between the buttons (Austria)
8 Their Satanic Majesties Request (Australia)
9 Let it bleed (UK)
10 Get yer ya-yas out (UK)
11 Sticky fingers (New Zealand)
12 Exile on Main street (Norway)
13 Goats head soup (US)
14 It's only rock n roll (US)
15 Black and blue (Germany)
16 Story Stones (Holland) 1976
17 Some girls (US)
18 Emotional rescue (US)
19 Tattoo you (US)
20 Still life (Sweden)
21 Undercover (Sweden)
22 Dirty work (Switzerland)
23 Steel wheels (Austria)
24 Voodoo lounge (Australia)
25 Stripped (Norway)
26 Bridges to Babylon (Sweden)
27 Forty Licks (Ireland)
28 Jump Back (Argentina)
29 Live Licks (Argentina)
30 A bigger bang (Denmark)
31 Shine a light (Croatia)
32 Exile on Main street (Scotland)

OK, and now to make this interesting, and give you a little homework, come up with the complete discography, with EVERY ALBUM having a #1 charting in a country, doesn't matter where, only...get this...DON'T REPEAT THE COUNTRY!!

ie, no Argentina for Jump Back AND Live Licks. No repeating the country.

If we can achieve this, I think we can arrive at peace in the world.

Are you up for the challenge SQUANDO?

Nah thanks treaclefingers you can leave me outta that one but feel free to go ahead yourself.

I'm still getting over that I couldn't find a number one for:

Beggars Banquet
Hide tide green grass
Through the past dearkly
Hot rocks

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Nah thanks treaclefingers you can leave me outta that one but feel free to go ahead yourself.

I'm still getting over that I couldn't find a number one for:

Beggars Banquet
Hide tide green grass
Through the past dearkly
Hot rocks

Well, then you've actually answered my request, by saying the RS Catalogue does NOT have a number 1 album somewhere in the world, for every official album.

I knew I should have become a Beatles Fan!

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Ok I've done as much digging as poss to date and have come up with (thanks to some other's especially Doxa's help) a list of every song that the Stones have had a country number one hit with.

So here our 32 #1 Licks album:

1 Not fade away (France)
2 Tell me (Sweden)
3 It's all over now (UK)
4 Little red rooster (UK)
5 Heart of Stone (Canada)
6 The last time (UK)
7 As tears go by (Canada)
8 Satisfaction (Greece)
9 Get off of my cloud (UK)
10 Under the boardwalk (Australia)
11 19th nervous breakdown (Italy)
12 Paint it black (UK)
13 Let's spend the night together (Germany)
14 Ruby Tuesday (US)
15 We Love You (Holland)
16 Dandelion (Holland)
17 She's A Rainbow (Canada)
18 Jumping Jack Flash (UK)
19 Honky tonk women (UK)
20 Brown sugar (US)
21 Angie (Norway)
22 Hot Stuff (France)
23 Miss you (US)
24 Emotional rescue (Philippines)
25 Start me up (Australia)
26 Waiting On a Friend (Canada)
27 Going To A Go-Go (Canada)
28 Undercover of he Night (Canada)
29 Harlem Shuffle (New Zealand)
30 Mixed emotions (Canada)
31 Anybody seen my baby (Canada)
32 Streets of love (Spain)

Some update to this great old thread (and list):

33. Living In A Ghost Town (Germany)

- Doxa