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Nirvana is a prestigious band in the 90s, belongs to the genre of music grunge. in 1991, Nirvana signed to major label DGC and release their second album Nevermind. DGC can expect the album to sell at least 250 thousand copies. But the opposite happened. Success Smells Like Teen Spirit boost sales to 400 thousand copies in just a week.

 

Nirvana band was originally formed by Kurt Cobain Krist, Novoselic and Aaron Burckhard in March 1987 in the city of Aberdeen Washington USA. First single is Love Buzz, which was released by a Small independent label Sub Pop Records. Nirvana growing poplarity in Seattle, and they released their first album, bleach.

Nirvana went on his way by releasing a second album called Nevermind was recorded in May 1991 and was completed a month later. Initially, DGC Records hopes to sell 250.000 copies of Nevermind album. However, the album's first single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" quickly gained momentum, thanks in part to significant of the song played music videos on MTV. 

And in year 1991 in the month of december to be exact at Christmas, selling 400.000 copies of Nevermind album a week in the United States on January 11, 1992 the album reached number one on the Billboard album charts, displacing Michael Jackson's album Dangerous. The album also topped the charts in various countries around the world.

In Indonesia, the popularity of Nirvana successfully compete with the popularity of Guns N Roses, Metallica and Sepultura that at times it is very popular in Indonesia. However, internal problems within the band can not be inevitable. Vocalist of the band that Kurt Cobain had severe addiction to heroin and when shooting Kurt repeatedly unable to stand and just down constantly. Kurt had tried to commit suicide by taking heroin in excess and when it had hold of the piece of paper with writing "I had to choose between life and death and I choose death".

Finally, in 5 April 1991 in a guest house behind their house in Seattle, Kurt committed suicide. He put the gun to his mount and shooting his self, killing him instantly. He left a suicide note addressed to the fans, as well as his wife and daughters. Although the police officially declared her death by suicide, but there are some irregularities and possibly involved in the death of Kurt's Love, for evidence that had used her credit card spending, while Kurt was declared dead when the transaction is done.