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This discography is an overview of the musical works of the American rock - band Guns n 'Roses . According to the sources, they have sold more than 100 million records in their careers, making them one of the performers with the highest number of records sold worldwide . The most successful release of Guns n 'Roses is the album Appetite for Destruction with around 30.8 million units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1987	Appetite for Destruction	DE2 platinum (73 weeks)DE	AT3 platinum (55 weeks)AT	CH5 platinum (47 weeks)CH	UK5 × 3 Triple platinum (284 weeks)UK	US1 × 8 Diamond + eight-fold platinum (… Where.)US	First published: July 21, 1987 Sales: 30,800,000
1988	G N 'R Read	DE37 gold (14 weeks)DE	AT10 gold (13 weeks)AT	CH15 (10 weeks) CH	UK22nd gold (41 weeks)UK	US2 × 5 Quintuple platinum (53 weeks)US	First published: Nov 28, 1988 Sales: 10,000,000
1991	Use Your Illusion I.	DE4th × 2 Double platinum (100 weeks)DE	AT2 × 2 Double platinum (39 weeks)AT	CH3 × 2 Double platinum (34 weeks)CH	UK2 platinum (85 weeks)UK	US2 × 7 Seven times platinum (108 weeks)US	First published: September 17, 1991 Sales: 17,000,000
1991	Use Your Illusion II	DE2 × 5 Quintuple gold (101 weeks)DE	AT1 × 2 Double platinum (72 weeks)AT	CH2 × 3 Triple platinum (60 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (86 weeks)UK	US1 × 7 Seven times platinum (106 weeks)US	First published : Sep 17, 1991 Sales: 18,000,000
1993	" The Spaghetti Incident? "	DE5 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT4th gold (16 weeks)AT	CH3 gold (19 weeks)CH	UK2 gold (13 weeks)UK	US4th platinum (22 weeks)US	First published: November 23, 1993 Sales: 5,500,000
2008	Chinese Democracy	DE2 gold (14 weeks)DE	AT3 (14 weeks) AT	CH1 (13 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (12 weeks)UK	US3 platinum (16 weeks)US	First published: November 23, 2008 Sales: 2,600,000

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1999	Live Era: '87 -'93	DE53 (9 weeks) DE	AT29 (10 weeks) AT	CH31 (10 weeks) CH	UK45 gold (4 weeks)UK	US45 gold (13 weeks)US	First published: November 23, 1999 Sales: 2,500,000
2014	Appetite for Democracy: Live at the Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas	DE57 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: October 31, 2014

More live albums

2017: Live In Tokyo 2017 Not In This Lifetime World Tour

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
2004	Greatest hits	DE4th platinum (28 weeks)DE	AT1 gold (152 weeks)AT	CH2 platinum (71 weeks)CH	UK1 × 7 Seven times platinum (… Where.)UK	US3 × 5 Quintuple platinum (… Where.)US	First published: March 23, 2004 Sales: 10,361,000
2018	Appetite for Destruction (Super Deluxe)	DE*DE	-	-	-	-	First published: June 29, 2018 * see Appetite for Destruction

More compilations

1993: Electric & Acoustic
1998: Use Your Illusion

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1993	The Civil War	-	-	-	UK11 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 3, 1993

More EPs

1986: Live?! * @ Like a Suicide (release: only in the USA; limited to 10,000)
1987: Live from the Jungle (release: only in Japan)

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Remarks
1987	It's So Easy Appetite for Destruction	-	-	-	UK84 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 15, 1987
1987	Welcome to the Jungle Appetite for Destruction	-	-	-	UK24 platinum (9 weeks)UK	US7th gold (17 weeks)US	First published: October 3, 1987 Sales: + 1,195,000
1988	Sweet Child o 'Mine Appetite for Destruction	-	-	CH15 (6 weeks) CH	UK6th × 2 Double platinum (40 weeks)UK	US1 × 2 Double gold + platinum (mastertone) (22 weeks)US	First published: August 17, 1988 Sales: + 4,566,000
1988	Paradise City Appetite for Destruction	-	-	CH7 (14 weeks) CH	UK6th platinum (12 weeks)UK	US5 (17 weeks) US	First published: November 30, 1988
1989	Patience G N 'R Read	DE38 (13 weeks) DE	-	CH16 (9 weeks) CH	UK10 (8 weeks) UK	US4th gold (18 weeks)US	First published: March 19, 1989 Sales: + 500,000
1989	Nightrain Appetite for Destruction	-	-	-	UK17 (5 weeks) UK	US93 (5 weeks) US	First published: July 29, 1989
1991	You Could Be Mine Use Your Illusion II	DE5 (28 weeks) DE	AT8 (11 weeks) AT	CH2 (20 weeks) CH	UK3 (10 weeks) UK	US29 gold (15 weeks)US	First published: July 27, 1991 Sales: + 500,000
1991	Don't Cry Use Your Illusion I.	DE22 (22 weeks) DE	-	CH3 (21 weeks) CH	UK8 (4 weeks) UK	US10 gold (19 weeks)US	First published: November 2, 1991 Sales: + 592,500
1992	Live and Let Die Use Your Illusion I	DE33 (12 weeks) DE	AT27 (1 week) AT	CH19 (9 weeks) CH	UK5 (7 weeks) UK	US33 (16 weeks) US	First published: January 25, 1992
	November Rain Use Your Illusion I	DE9 gold (51 weeks)DE	AT27 (2 weeks) AT	CH8 (20 weeks) CH	UK4th gold (7 weeks)UK	US3 gold (22 weeks)US	First published: February 1992 Sales: + 750,000
	Knockin 'on Heaven's Door Use Your Illusion II	DE5 gold (34 weeks)DE	AT3 (25 weeks) AT	CH5 (30 weeks) CH	UK2 silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: 1992 Sales: + 495,000
	Yesterdays Use Your Illusion II	DE23 (14 weeks) DE	AT18 (6 weeks) AT	CH19 (9 weeks) CH	UK8 (9 weeks) UK	US72 (10 weeks) US	First published: November 14, 1992
1993	Ain't It Fun "The Spaghetti Incident?"	DE34 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH15 (9 weeks) CH	UK9 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 20, 1993
1994	Estranged Use Your Illusion II	-	-	CH41 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: January 17, 1994
	Since I Don't Have You "The Spaghetti Incident?"	-	-	-	UK10 (7 weeks) UK	US69 (9 weeks) US	First published: March 5, 1994
	Sympathy for the Devil Interview with a Vampire OST	DE20 (10 weeks) DE	AT17 (7 weeks) AT	CH15 (6 weeks) CH	UK9 (6 weeks) UK	US55 (8 weeks) US	First published: December 13, 1994
2008	Chinese Democracy Chinese Democracy	DE38 (5 weeks) DE	AT26 (5 weeks) AT	CH11 (6 weeks) CH	UK27 (4 weeks) UK	US34 (3 weeks) US	First published: October 22, 2008

More singles

1999: Oh My God ( End of Days - Night Without Tomorrow OST)
2008: Better
2009: Street of Dreams

Video albums and music videos

Video albums

1992: Use Your Illusion World Tour - 1992 In Tokyo I (DVD: 2003), (DE, US:gold, UK: platinum)
1992: Use Your Illusion World Tour - 1992 In Tokyo II (DVD: 2003), (DE, US:gold, UK: platinum)
1993: Don't Cry Making F *** ing Videos - Part I.
1993: November Rain Making F *** ing Videos - Part II
1993: Garden of Eden
1994: The Making of Estranged - Part IV of the Trilogy !!!
1998: Welcome to the Videos (DVD: 2003), (UK:× 3Triple platinum , US: × 2Double platinum )

Music videos

year	title	Director (s)
1987	It's So Easy (unreleased)	Nigel Dick
	Welcome to the jungle	Nigel Dick
	Sweet Child o 'Mine (2 versions)	Nigel Dick
1988	Paradise City	Nigel Dick
1989	patience	Nigel Dick
1991	Mr. Brownstone (unpublished)	Jeffrey Abelson, Andy Morahan , Stan Winston
	You Could Be Mine (2 Versions)	Jeffrey Abelson, Andy Morahan, Stan Winston
	Don't Cry (2 versions)	Andy Morahan
	Live and Let Die	Josh Richman
1992	November Rain	Andy Morahan
	Knockin 'on Heaven's Door (live)	Andy Morahan
	Yesterdays	Andy Morahan
	Garden of Eden	Andy Morahan
1993	The Garden	Del James
	Dead Horse
	The Civil War (live)
1994	Estranged	Andy Morahan
1994	Since I Don't Have You	Sante D'Orazio
2010	Better	Dale Resteghini
2010	It's so easy	Youtube VEVO

statistics

Chart evaluation

The following list contains an overview of the chart successes of Guns n 'Roses in the album and single charts.

	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
Number one albums	DE-DE	AT2AT	CH1CH	UK2UK	US2US
Top 10 albums	DE6thDE	AT7thAT	CH6thCH	UK6thUK	US7thUS
Albums in the charts	DE9DE	AT8thAT	CH8thCH	UK9UK	US8thUS

	DE	AT	CH	UK	US
Number one singles	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH	UK-UK	US1US
Top 10 singles	DE3DE	AT2AT	CH5CH	UK12UK	US6thUS
Singles in the charts	DE10DE	AT7thAT	CH13CH	UK16UK	US13US

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Argentina (CAPIF)	0! S.-	0! G-	43 × platinum43	0! D.-	1,252,000	capif.org.ar ( Memento from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) AR2 ( Memento from May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Australia (ARIA)	0! S.-	3 × gold3	39 × platinum39	0! D.-	1,975,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	0! S.-	gold1	3 × platinum3	0! D.-	145,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	0! S.-	5 × gold5	4 × platinum4th	0! D.-	1,350,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	0! S.-	6 × gold6th	6 × platinum6th	0! D.-	390,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	0! S.-	8 × gold8th	6 × platinum6th	0! D.-	4,100,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	0! S.-	0! G-	5 × platinum5	0! D.-	(5,000,000)	ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Finland (IFPI)	0! S.-	2 × gold2	4 × platinum4th	0! D.-	267,560	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	0! S.-	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2	0! D.-	1,200,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Greece (IFPI)	0! S.-	2 × gold2	0! P-	0! D.-	13,000	ifpi.gr ( Memento from April 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Ireland (IRMA)	0! S.-	0! G-	7 × platinum7th	0! D.-	105,000	irishcharts.ie
Italy (FIMI)	0! S.-	2 × gold2	13 × platinum13	0! D.-	640,000	fimi.it
Japan (RIAJ)	0! S.-	6 × gold6th	6 × platinum6th	0! D.-	1,750,000	riaj.or.jp JP2
Canada (MC)	0! S.-	0! G-	17 × platinum17th	2 × diamond2	3,420,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	0! S.-	6 × gold6th	2 × platinum2	0! D.-	760,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	0! S.-	gold1	18 × platinum18th	0! D.-	277,500	nztop40.co.nz NZ2 ( Memento from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Netherlands (NVPI)	0! S.-	gold1	7 × platinum7th	0! D.-	730,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	0! S.-	0! G-	5 × platinum5	0! D.-	250,000	ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Austria (IFPI)	0! S.-	3 × gold3	5 × platinum5	0! D.-	315,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	0! S.-	0! G-	4 × platinum4th	0! D.-	80,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Portugal (AFP)	silver1	gold1	0! P-	0! D.-	6,000	Individual evidence
Russia (NFPF)	0! S.-	gold1	0! P-	0! D.-	10,000	2m-online.ru ( Memento from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Sweden (IFPI)	0! S.-	3 × gold3	4 × platinum4th	0! D.-	455,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	0! S.-	gold1	7 × platinum7th	0! D.-	365,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	0! S.-	gold1	4 × platinum4th	0! D.-	450,000	promusicae.es
Hungary (MAHASZ)	0! S.-	2 × gold2	0! P-	0! D.-	13,000	slagerlistak.hu
United States (RIAA)	0! S.-	10 × gold10	37 × platinum37	diamond1	50,587,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	4 × gold4th	23 × platinum23	0! D.-	7,750,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	73 × gold73	271 × platinum271	3 × diamond3

swell

↑ Anna Seaman: Guns N 'Roses to play Yas Island. In: The National. October 20, 2010, accessed July 2, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
↑ Bill Wyman: Did “Thriller” Really Sell a Hundred Million Copies? In: The New Yorker. January 4, 2013, accessed April 4, 2016 .
↑ Jonathan Cohen: The Billboard Q&A: Axl Rose. In: Billboard. June 2, 2009, accessed April 4, 2016 .
↑ Guns N'Roses music video sources . Retrieved January 1, 2011.

[1] Anna Seaman: Guns N 'Roses to play Yas Island. In: The National. October 20, 2010, accessed July 2, 2018 .

[charts-2] Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

[3] Bill Wyman: Did “Thriller” Really Sell a Hundred Million Copies? In: The New Yorker. January 4, 2013, accessed April 4, 2016 .

[4] Jonathan Cohen: The Billboard Q&A: Axl Rose. In: Billboard. June 2, 2009, accessed April 4, 2016 .

[5] Guns N'Roses music video sources . Retrieved January 1, 2011.


Studio albums	Appetite for Destruction • G N 'R Lies • Use Your Illusion I + II • The Spaghetti Incident? • Chinese Democracy
Extended plays	Live?! * @ Like a Suicide
Live albums	Live Era: '87 -'93
Compilation albums	Greatest hits
Singles	It's So Easy • Welcome to the Jungle • Sweet Child o 'Mine • Paradise City • Patience • Nightrain • You Could Be Mine • Don't Cry • Live and Let Die • November Rain • Knockin' on Heaven's Door • Yesterdays • Ain ' t It Fun • Estranged • Since I Don't Have You • Sympathy for the Devil • Chinese Democracy
Tours	Use Your Illusion Tour