The first 1,000 copies were pressed on white vinyl, the next 2,000 on black vinyl, and all subsequent pressings were on assorted colored vinyl. In the U.S., the album was released on Sub Pop (Catalog: SP-34). Nevermind was certified gold and platinum by the RIAA on November 27, 1991. Nevermind was listed #17 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, despite only getting four stars out of five when this magazine reviewed it originally in 1991. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll.
Nevermind reached #1 on Billboard Music Chart's Top 200 albums and the Heatseekers chart. Singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain would later express dissatisfaction with the album's "slick", radio-friendly production, but also admitted in Michael Azerrad's 1993 Nirvana biography, Come as You Are, that listening to the album sometimes moved him to tears. Nevermind was produced by Butch Vig and mixed by Andy Wallace, who crafted the band's distorted guitars, pounding drums, rumbling bass and cathartic vocals into an album which appealed to a wide audience, and set the standard for rock music throughout the 1990s. In the wake of its success, other Seattle bands such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains would go on to have hit albums as well, and other alternative rock artists were suddenly being played on the radio and courted by record labels.
The album brought significant attention to the Seattle-based grunge movement which dominated throughout the majority of the 90s. Nevermind catapulted Nirvana from relative obscurity to the heights of commercial and critical success virtually overnight.
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