From: Tales From Your Record Collection: San Francisco Bay Area Edition
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The following is a list of the eight albums recorded in the San Francisco Bay Area that have made it into the top 100 Best-Selling Albums of all time -as officially recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), winter 2024.
• Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Warner Bros. 21 mil
Record Plant, Sausalito, CA
• Green Day, Dookie
Reprise 20 mil
Fantasy (Berkeley, California) September / October 1993
Music Grinder (Los Angeles, California)
• Journey, Greatest Hits
Although not a studio album, 12 of 15 tracks on this 18x platinum release were recorded in San Francisco at Automatt (Departure) and at His Masters Wheels (Infinity), Fantasy Records (Escape / Frontiers) in Berkeley, and the Record Plant (Raised on Radio) in Sausalito.
•Santana, Supernatural
Fantasy Records, Record Plant
Arista 15 mil sales
•Steve Miller Band, Greatest Hits 74-78
Again, not a studio album, but all but 1 of the 13 tracks on this 15x Platinum release were recorded at CBS, San Francisco (Book of Dreams / Fly Like an Eagle).
• Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle 20 Greatest Hits
12x Platinum
Although not a studio album all but one of the twenty tracks were recorded at Coast Recorders (Creedence Clearwater Revival, debut) San Francisco, Wally Heider Studios (Green River, Willie And The Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory, Pendulum, Mardi Gras) San Francisco, and Fantasy Records (Mardi Gras) in Berkeley.
• Kenny G, Breathless
12x Platinum recorded in part at The Plant Recording
(Former Record Plant) Sausalito in 1992.
• Doobie Brothers, Best of the Doobies
10x Platinum
Half of the albums tracks recorded at Wally Heider San Francisco (What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits) Wally Heider (Toulouse Street), Record Plant (Stampede) in Sausalito
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