wow. these cats were much bigger than i realized. in fact they were absolutely huge:
Def Leppard's fourth album
Hysteria, released in 1987, topped the U.S. and
UK album charts. As of 2009 it has 12x
platinum sales in the United States, and has gone on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide.
[9] The album spawned six hit singles, including the
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number one "
Love Bites", alongside "
Pour Some Sugar on Me", "
Hysteria", "
Armageddon It", "
Animal" and "
Rocket".
Their next studio album
Adrenalize (the first following the death of guitarist
Steve Clark) reached number one on the
U.S. Billboard 200 and
UK Album Chart in 1992, and contained several hits including, "
Let's Get Rocked" and "
Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". Their 1993 album
Retro Active contained the
acoustic hit song "
Two Steps Behind", while their greatest hits album
Vault released in 1995 featured the new track "
When Love & Hate Collide".
As one of the
world's best-selling music artists, Def Leppard have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide,
[10] and have two albums with
RIAA diamond certification,
Pyromania and
Hysteria.
[11] They are one of only five rock bands with two original studio albums selling over 10 million copies in the U.S.
[12] The band were ranked No. 31 in
VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock"
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