Sweet Child O Mine is a song by American hard rock band Guns N Roses, and the third single from their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction. Released on August 17, 1988, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the bands first and only number-one single in the U.S. Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1988. It reached number six on the UK Singles Chart, when re-released in 1989. Sweet Child o Mine placed #37 on Guitar Worlds list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. It also came in at number three on Blenders 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, and at #198 on Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at #6 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The introductions famous riff was also voted number-one riff of all-time by the readers of Total Guitar magazine. It was also in Rolling Stones 40 Greatest Songs that Changed the World. It places #7 in VH1s 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s, and placed #210 on the RIAA Songs of the Century list. On a 2004 BBC poll, the song was voted to have the greatest guitar riff ever The song came 1st in Kerrang!s Slashs top 30 guitar anthems.[citation needed] The song is currently ranked as the 104th greatest song of all time, as well as the best song of 1987, by Acclaimed Music In October 2009 it came first in Kerrang!s 100 greatest riffs.[citation needed] The song has sold 2,609,000 digital copies in the US as of March 2012.
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