Appetite For Destruction - Legacy and Achievements

Legacy and Achievements

Appetite for Destruction debuted at position 182 on the Billboard 200 on August 29, 1987. The album reached number one on the chart on September 24, 1988, 50 weeks after its first appearance. It spent four weeks at the top of the chart, and a total of 147 weeks on the Billboard 200.

• In 1989 Rolling Stone ranked Appetite for Destruction as the 27th best album of the 1980s.
• The same magazine later ranked it at sixty-two on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
• In 2001, Q magazine named Appetite for Destruction as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time.
• In 2004, Q magazine also named Appetite for Destruction as one of the greatest Classic rock Albums Ever.
• In 2003, VH1 named Appetite for Destruction the 42nd Greatest Album of All Time.
• In 2002, Pitchfork Media ranked Appetite for Destruction 59th on their Top 100 Albums of the 1980s.
• It was ranked 18 in Spin magazine's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005".
• In 2006, Kerrang! ranked the album #1 on the list of best rock albums.
• The album was ranked 32 on Rock Hall of Fame's 'definitive 200' album list, developed by the NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers.
• In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at #10 in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s".
• In 2006, the album was placed No. 2 on Guitar World magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time.
• Music critic Piero Scaruffi includes Appetite for Destruction at number 4, just after Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun and before Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking, in his classification of the best metal albums of all times.
• In 2011, Australian radio station Triple M listed Appetite For Destruction #1 in their list of the 250 most life changing albums.
• In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at #37 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980's".
• In 2012, Clash added the album to its Classic Albums Hall of Fame .