Editing Tusk (album) (section)

==Release==
The album was scheduled for release on 12 October 1979. The [[RKO General|RKO]] radio chain obtained access to ''Tusk'' the week prior and prematurely played the album in its entirety on several of its radio stations across the United States. To counter the circulation of comparatively poor quality tape recordings of ''Tusk'', Warner Bros distributed the album to retail record stores one week earlier than planned, with the first shipments beginning on the weekend of 5 October. Warner Bros secured an injunction against RKO, which prevented the company from playing the album on its stations and also barred them from claiming exclusive access to the album.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Harrison |first=Ed |date=20 October 1979 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1979/Billboard%201979-10-20.pdf |title=Jump Fleetwood Mac Release|magazine=Billboard |page=4 |access-date=9 May 2025 |via=World Radio History}}</ref> ''Tusk'' peaked at number four on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] in the United States and spent almost nine months on the chart. It was certified double platinum for shipping two million copies.{{Certification Cite Ref|region=United States|title=Tusk |artist=Fleetwood Mac|type=album}} It peaked at number one in the UK and achieved a platinum award for shipments in excess of 300,000 copies.<ref name="bpi"/> The album gave the group two US top-10 hit singles, with the Buckingham-penned [[Tusk (song)|title track]] (US number eight/UK number six), and the [[Stevie Nicks]] composition "[[Sara (Fleetwood Mac song)|Sara]]" (US number seven/UK number 37).<ref name="BillboardSingles">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/302218/fleetwood-mac/chart |title=Fleetwood Mac - Chart History|magazine=Billboard |date=9 February 2017}}</ref>

Though the album sold four million copies worldwide, and earned a Grammy nomination in 1981 for its art design in the category "Best Album Package", the band's record label deemed the project a failure, laying the blame squarely with Buckingham (considering the comparatively huge sales of ''Rumours'' and the album's unprecedented recording expense).<ref name=complete>{{Cite book |last=Rooksby |first=Rikky |title=The Complete Guide to the Music of Fleetwood Mac |publisher=Omnibus Press |year=1998 |pages=115 |isbn=0-7119-6310-X }}</ref> Fleetwood, however, blames the album's relative failure on the RKO radio chain playing the album in its entirety prior to release, thus allowing mass home recording.<ref>{{cite book| title=My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac| url=https://archive.org/details/fleetwoodmylifea00fleet| url-access=registration|last1=Fleetwood|first1=Mick|last2=Davis|first2=Stephen|year=1991|page=[https://archive.org/details/fleetwoodmylifea00fleet/page/219 219]| publisher=Avon Books| isbn=9780380716166}}</ref> In addition, ''Tusk'' was a [[double album]], with a high list price of US$16.00, or $56.00 in 2019 terms.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/fleetwood-mac-tusk-things-you-didnt-know-896796/|title=Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk': 10 Things You Didn't Know|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=11 October 2019|access-date=12 October 2019|last=Reed|first=Ryan}}</ref> The band originally considered the idea of releasing ''Tusk'' as two single albums each with the price of $7.98, but the record label decided against this.<ref name="CITEREFAudioboom2020">{{cite podcast |url=https://audioboom.com/posts/7710494-fleetwood-mac-s-tusk-an-interview-with-the-producer-and-engineer|title=Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk' - An Interview with the Producer and Engineer|website=Rockin' the Suburbs|last1 = Foster|first1 = Patrick|last2 = Lenahan| first2= Jim|date=23 October 2020 |time= 27:41|access-date=15 November 2023}}</ref>

Further releases from the album "[[Not That Funny]]" (UK-only single release), "[[Think About Me]]", and "[[Sisters of the Moon]]" were slightly remixed for radio, and were less successful. The latter two appear in their 'single versions' on the 2002 compilation ''[[The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac]]'', while "Sara", which was cut to 4{{frac|1|2}} minutes for both the single and the first CD release of the album, appears in its unedited form on the 1988 ''Greatest Hits'' compilation, the 2002 release ''The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac'', and the 2004 reissue of ''Tusk''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/sara-mt0004086084|title=Sara – Fleetwood Mac|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref>

The album was [[Tusk (Camper Van Beethoven album)|remade in its entirety]] by American [[alternative rock]] band [[Camper Van Beethoven]] and released in 2003.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fie47qSuTsoC&q=Tusk+%28Camper+Van+Beethoven+album%29+2003&pg=PA1791|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|first=Rough|last=Guides (Firm)|date=13 April 2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781858284576|via=Google Books}}</ref>