Rumours Songwriting Credits by Fleetwood Mac

Rumours is the eleventh studio album by Fleetwood Mac, released in February 1977 on Warner Bros. Records and produced by Ken Caillat, Richard Dashut, and the band. It is one of the best-selling albums in history, with over 40 million copies sold worldwide, and the commercial peak of a band that had operated for nearly a decade before achieving mainstream success. The album was recorded during a period in which two of the band's three romantic relationships were simultaneously dissolving: Christine and John McVie were divorcing, and Buckingham and Nicks were breaking up, a circumstance that infused nearly every track with autobiographical emotional content that listeners could sense without knowing the specific details. Nicks contributed 'The Chain' (co-written with all five band members), 'Gold Dust Woman,' and 'Dreams' (the album's most commercially enduring track and the band's only US number-one single); McVie contributed 'You Make Loving Fun,' 'Oh Daddy,' and 'Don't Stop'; Buckingham contributed 'Go Your Own Way,' 'The Chain' co-write, and 'Never Going Back Again.' The album spent 31 weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 and won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1978, becoming one of only a handful of rock albums to win the category in the award's history. Rumours is widely cited as the definitive document of the California soft rock era and one of the most precisely produced pop-rock albums ever made.