 The album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of three million copies in the country.The album reached number three on the US "Billboard" 200, spending 77 weeks on the chart, and shipped one million copies within its first two months of release in the United States.It also charted at number three in the United Kingdom, and it was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry on September 1, 1991, having shipped 100,000 copies in the UK.