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Sticky Fingers
- Peak position
- #1
- Weeks on chart
- 69
- Weeks at #1
- 4
Sticky Fingers is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.
Why this album mattered
Sticky Fingers is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released on 23 April 1971 on the Rolling Stones' new label, Rolling Stones Records. The Rolling Stones had been contracted by Decca Records and London Records in the UK and the US since 1963. It peaked at #1 and spent 4 weeks at #1 across 69 total chart weeks. Major singles from the album include "Brown Sugar", "Wild Horses".
The music
1 Brown Sugar
- 2
Sway
3 Wild Horses
- 4
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
- 5
You Gotta Move
- 6
Bitch
- 7
I Got the Blues
- 8
Sister Morphine
9 Dead Flowers
- 10
Moonlight Mile
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The chart journey
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The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
Album facts
- LabelDecca Records and London
- Genresrock · jazz · pop · Rolling Stones album
- Certificationsplatinum · gold · in the US
- AwardsGrammy-nominated cover artwork, conceived and photographed by Andy Warhol, showed a pi · Grammy Hall of Fame and included in Rolling Stone magazine's "The 500 Greatest Albums
- Singles"Brown Sugar" · "Wild Horses"
- ArtistThe Rolling Stones
- Year1971
