Commercial Performance
The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on February 2, 1987 and eventually certified 9x multi-platinum on September 5, 2001. The single "Brass Monkey" was certified Gold for shipment of 500,000+ sales. In the week following Adam Yauch's death, which subsequently resulted in a surge in sales of Beastie Boys albums, Licensed to Ill reached #1 on Billboard's Catalog Albums chart. The album also re-entered the Billboard 200 chart at #18.
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