page_title: Guns N' Roses discography
hierarchical_section_title: Guns N' Roses discography
caption_attribution_description: English: Guns N' Roses - London Stadium - Friday 16th June 2017
context_page_description: The discography of Guns N' Roses, an American hard rock band, consists of six studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, three extended plays, 19 singles, nine video albums and 21 music videos. Guns N' Roses was formed in Los Angeles, California with an original recording lineup of lead vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler. After self-releasing the EP Live?!*@ Like a Suicide in December 1986, the band signed with Geffen Records and released its debut studio album Appetite for Destruction the following July. It topped the US Billboard 200 and went on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time, with reported sales over 30 million units worldwide, 18 million of which are in the US. Three singles – "Welcome to the Jungle", "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "Paradise City" – reached the US Billboard Hot 100 top ten, with "Sweet Child o' Mine" topping the chart.
  G N' R Lies followed in November 1988, comprising the four tracks from Live?!*@ Like a Suicide and four new acoustic recordings.
context_section_description: The discography of Guns N' Roses, an American hard rock band, consists of six studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, three extended plays (EPs), 19 singles, nine video albums and 21 music videos. Guns N' Roses was formed in Los Angeles, California with an original recording lineup of lead vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler. After self-releasing the EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide in December 1986, the band signed with Geffen Records and released its debut studio album Appetite for Destruction the following July. It topped the US Billboard 200 and went on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time, with reported sales over 30 million units worldwide, 18 million of which are in the US. Three singles – "Welcome to the Jungle", "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "Paradise City" – reached the US Billboard Hot 100 top ten, with "Sweet Child o' Mine" topping the chart.
  G N' R Lies followed in November 1988, comprising the four tracks from Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide and four new acoustic recordings. The album peaked at number 2 in the US and was certified six times platinum, while its lead single "Patience" reached number 4 on the singles chart. After adding keyboardist Dizzy Reed and replacing Adler with Matt Sorum, Guns N' Roses released Use Your Illusion I and II in September 1991. Upon their release, the albums occupied the top two positions on the Billboard 200 chart and in many other territories. The second album reached number 1 ahead of the first, which Rose credits to fans knowing more of the songs from live performances. "November Rain" was the most successful single from the albums domestically, reaching number 3 on the Hot 100.
  During the Use Your Illusion Tour, Stradlin was replaced by Gilby Clarke. In 1992 the band released two live videos from the tour, Use Your Illusion World Tour: 1992 in Tokyo I and II, which both reached the top 20 of the Billboard Music Video Sales chart and were certified gold. The following November saw the release of "The Spaghetti Incident?", an album of punk rock cover versions. It reached number 4 in the US, the lowest position of any Guns N' Roses studio album to date. Both singles – "Ain't It Fun" and "Since I Don't Have You" – reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart. Clarke was replaced by Rose's friend Paul Tobias for a recording of "Sympathy for the Devil" for the Interview with the Vampire soundtrack in 1994, which charted at number 55 in the US and number 9 in the UK.
  Guns N' Roses changed drastically in the mid-1990s, as Slash left in 1996, and Sorum and McKagan left the following year. The band went through numerous lineup changes as it worked on a new album starting in 1997, with Rose, Reed and Tobias the only remaining members from the previous lienup. The group's first live album Live Era '87–'93 was issued in 1999, but managed only to reach number 45 on the Billboard 200 and was the band's first album not to receive a platinum certification. In 2004, Geffen released the compilation Greatest Hits without the consent of the band. Despite this, it was a commercial success that topped the album charts in several countries, including the UK, and sold over 6 million copies in the US. The band's sixth studio album Chinese Democracy was released in November 2008, after 10 years in the making and over $13 million in production costs. It reached number 3 on the US Billboard 200 and sold a reported 2.6 million copies worldwide. Appetite for Democracy 3D, the first Guns N' Roses live video album since 1992, was released in 2014 and reached number 1 on the US Billboard Music Video Sales chart. Slash and McKagan rejoined the band in 2016, and in 2018, the band released a remastered box set of their debut album, titled the Appetite for Destruction: Locked N' Loaded edition.
caption: Guns N' Roses onstage in 2017.
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