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| Released | 8 March 1982[1] | |||
| Studio | Villa San Pecaïre (Saint Jacques, Grasse, France) with Dierks Recording Mobile Dierks Studios (Stommeln, West Germany) | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 36:44 | |||
| Label | Harvest/EMI | |||
| Producer | Dieter Dierks | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 10/10[3] |
| Forces Parallèles | [4] |
| Rolling Stone |  [5] |
Blackout is the eighth studio album by the German rock band Scorpions. It was released in 1982 by Harvest and EMI Records.
In the US, the album was certified gold on 24 June 1982 and platinum on 8 March 1984 by RIAA.[6] Rolling Stone ranked Blackout as 73rd on their list of "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" in 2017.[7]
- ^ "New Releases" (PDF). FMQB. 26 February 1982. p. 27. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ Weber, Barry. "Scorpions Blackout review". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 319. ISBN 978-1894959315.
- ^ Gaguet, Guillaume. "Scorpion Blackout review". Forces Parallèles. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ^ Considine, J.D. (24 June 1982). "Album Reviews: Scorpions - Blackout". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "RIAA Searchable Database: search for Scorpions". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- ^ "Rolling Stone Share Their Choices For 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time'". ThePRP. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2019.