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===Commercial===
The production of the album left the band in enormous debt.<ref name="ultimatesistersguide2"/> According to Eldritch, the album recouped the production costs in 1988.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Dickson |first=Dave |date=June 1991 |title=On Eldritch Boulevard |magazine=Heartland |issue=4 |page=46}}</ref> The album peaked at No. 14 on the [[UK Albums Chart]],<ref name="uk"/> with strong regional sales in the north of England.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rees |first1=Dafydd  |last2=Crampton |first2=Luke |title=The Q Encyclopedia of Rock Stars |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]] |year=1999 |page=914}}</ref> It was certified silver (with 60,000 sold) on 30 October 1987 and gold (with 100,000 sold) on 8 May 1989 by the [[British Phonographic Industry]] (BPI).<ref name="BPI"/> In Germany, the group's second largest market after the UK, the album peaked at No. 40 and was certified gold (with 250,000 sold) in 2011.<ref name="ger"/><ref name="BVMI"/> In the US, the album did not enter the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]. Regarding the failure of the band's singles to crack the UK top 40, Eldritch later commented: "We came close. Our failure to crack it wasn't anything to do with us. I think the band did everything required, although we weren't prepared to package ourselves in the way other acts were".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Spencer |first=Neil |date=22 February 1986 |title=The Sisterhood |magazine=[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]] |url=http://www.ultimatesistersguide.org/images/mag/the_sisterhood-a_family_fued_2.jpg |type=JPEG |access-date=10 March 2013}}</ref>