The said project not only topped the Billboard 200 but has been certified quintuple-platinum by the RIAA, which is a pretty amazing feat for an album that came out back then. In fact throughout that decade, four of the seven albums John dropped proved to be RIAA multi-platinum successes, thus making the 1980s Mellencamp’s heyday.Īnd whereas he hasn’t been getting the same type of commercial and critical love in the 21 st century, it should be noted that his last studio album to date, 2018’s Other People’s Stuff, did peak at number 7 on the Billboard 200 and reached the summit of Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Folk Albums listings. This is because he not only got around to dropping seven albums but also the most successful of the over 20 studio projects he’s dropped to date, that being 1982’s American Fool. John Cougar Mellencamp is a singer from Indiana who traces his music career back to the mid-1970s. The 1980s were kinder though to him. Recording Industry Association of America.John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen and “Wasted Days”
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