Facelift (album)

Facelift
Facelift
Studio album by Alice in Chains
Released	August 21, 1990
Recorded	December 1989 – April 1990
Studio	London Bridge (Seattle); Capitol (Hollywood);
Genre	Grunge; heavy metal; alternative metal; hard rock;
Length	54:02
Label	Columbia
Producer	Dave Jerden
Alice in Chains chronology
Singles from Facelift
	"We Die Young"; Released: July 1990; "Man in the Box"; Released: January 1991;

Facelift is the debut studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released by Columbia Records on August 21, 1990.^[1] The tracks "We Die Young", and "Man in the Box" were released as singles. "Man in the Box" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal in 1992.^[5] Facelift became the first grunge album to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), achieving this feat on September 11, 1991.^[6]^[7] The album peaked at No. 42 on the Billboard 200 chart,^[8] and has been certified triple-platinum by the RIAA for shipments of three million copies in the United States.^[6]

^ ^a ^b "Alice In Chains – Facelift". Discogs. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
^ ^a ^b Heller, Jason (August 26, 2016). "Loud Love: Soundgarden and the Heyday of Alternative Metal". VICE. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
^ Cite error: The named reference AMG Facelift was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Childers, Chad (June 6, 2013). "BEST DEBUT HARD ROCK ALBUMS". Loudwire. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
^ Cite error: The named reference First Grammy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b "Recording Industry Association of America". RIAA. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
^ Cite error: The named reference first gold and platinum was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Alice in Chains Chart History – Billboard 200 – Facelift". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 14, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2017.

[Discogs-1] "Alice In Chains – Facelift". Discogs. Retrieved August 16, 2025.

[Vice-2] Heller, Jason (August 26, 2016). "Loud Love: Soundgarden and the Heyday of Alternative Metal". VICE. Retrieved April 28, 2025.

[AMG_Facelift-3] Cite error: The named reference AMG Facelift was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] Childers, Chad (June 6, 2013). "BEST DEBUT HARD ROCK ALBUMS". Loudwire. Retrieved January 28, 2020.

[First_Grammy-5] Cite error: The named reference First Grammy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[RIAA-6] "Recording Industry Association of America". RIAA. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2017.

[first_gold_and_platinum-7] Cite error: The named reference first gold and platinum was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[8] "Alice in Chains Chart History – Billboard 200 – Facelift". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 14, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2017.

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