In Utero was released on September 21, 1993, two years after Nevermind. Domestically, 180,000 copies were sold in the first week, making it number 1 on the Billboard sales chart—and this was without Walmart and Kmart. (Because of the lead time required for manufacturing album jackets, the version with the “censored” cover wouldn’t be available for sale by those mass merchants for two more months.) Although it would never be as big as Nevermind, In Utero eventually sold more than five million albums in the U.S. and another five million in the rest of the world. In 2011, the Guardian conducted a
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