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Pump (album) |
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| Studio album by Aerosmith | |||||
| Released | September 12, 1989 | ||||
| Recorded | February-June 1989 | ||||
| Genre | Hard rock, blues-rock | ||||
| Length | 45:37 | ||||
| Label | Geffen | ||||
| Producer | Bruce Fairbairn | ||||
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Pump is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001.
Pump was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics upon its release. The album incorporates the use of keyboards and a horn section on many of the singles ("Love in an Elevator", "The Other Side"), and contains straightforward rockers ("F.I.N.E.*", "Young Lust"), the ballad "What It Takes", songs about issues such as incest and murder ("Janie's Got a Gun") and drug & alcohol abuse ("Monkey on My Back").1 As well as a variety of instrumental interludes such as "Hoodoo" and "Dulcimer Stomp."
The album has certified sales of seven million copies in the U.S. to date.2 It produced a variety of successes and "firsts" for the band including their first Grammy award ("Janie's Got a Gun").3 "Love in an Elevator" became the first Aerosmith song to hit #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Additionally, it is the only Aerosmith album to date to have three Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and three #1 singles on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album was the fourth bestselling album of the year 1990.4
Pump was the second of three sequentially recorded Aerosmith albums to feature the fine teamwork of producer Bruce Fairbairn and engineers Mike Frazer and Ken Lomas at The Little Mountain Sound Studios.
Aerosmith found themselves in law school textbooks after a small rock band named Pump sued Aerosmith's management company for service mark infringement.5 Aerosmith won the case. 6 Aerosmith also found themselves in legal trouble when the songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland threatened to sue the band over the main melody in Aerosmith's song "The Other Side" which sounded similar to the melody in the song "Standing in the Shadows of Love". As part of the settlement, Aerosmith agreed to add "Holland-Dozier-Holland" in the songwriting credits for "The Other Side".
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Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1989 | The Billboard 200 | 5 |
Album - ARIA Charts (Australia)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1990 | Australian ARIA Albums Chart | 1 |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1989 | "Love in an Elevator" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 |
| 1989 | "F.I.N.E.*" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 14 |
| 1989 | "Love in an Elevator" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 5 |
| 1989 | "Janie's Got a Gun" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 2 |
| 1989 | "Janie's Got a Gun" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 4 |
| 1990 | "Monkey on My Back" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 17 |
| 1990 | "What It Takes" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 |
| 1990 | "What It Takes" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 9 |
| 1990 | "The Other Side" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 |
| 1990 | "The Other Side" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 22 |
| Organization | Level | Date |
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| RIAA - USA | Gold | November 29, 1989 |
| RIAA - USA | Platinum | November 29, 1989 |
| RIAA - USA | 2x Platinum | January 10, 1990 |
| RIAA - USA | 3x Platinum | May 2, 1990 |
| RIAA - USA | 4x Platinum | November 12, 1990 |
| RIAA - USA | 5x Platinum | November 9, 1994 |
| RIAA - USA | 7x Platinum | February 10, 1995 |
| Year | Winner | Category |
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| 1990 | "Janie's Got a Gun" | Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal |
Pump at MusicBrainz
| Preceded by Cosmic Thing by The B-52's |
Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album February 11 - March 3, 1990 |
Succeeded by The 12th Man Again! by The 12th Man |
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