Editing Between the Buttons

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Between the Buttons
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[the Rolling Stones]]
| cover      = BetweenthebuttonsUK.jpg
| border     = yes
| alt        =
| released   = {{start date|1967|1|20|df=yes}}
| recorded   = 3 August – 13 December 1966
| studio     = {{Unbulleted list|RCA (Hollywood)|[[IBC Studios|IBC]], [[Olympic Studios|Olympic]], Pye (London)}}
| genre      = <!-- All genres cited in #Release and reception -->
*[[Pop rock]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Malvinni|first=David|year=2016|page=136|title=Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener's Companion|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|isbn=978-0810889200}}</ref>
*[[psychedelic rock]]<ref name="DeRogatis 2003 568">{{cite book |last=DeRogatis |first=Jim |author-link=Jim DeRogatis |year=2003 |page=568 |title=Turn on Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation]] |isbn=0634055488}}</ref>
*[[baroque pop]]<ref name=all>{{cite book |author1=Philippe Margotin |author2=Jean-Michael Guesdon |title=The Rolling Stones All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track |date=2016 |publisher=Running Press |isbn=9780316317733 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g5eTCwAAQBAJ&q=between+the+buttons+%22baroque+pop%22&pg=PT451 |access-date=1 December 2019 |archive-date=4 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504040613/https://books.google.com/books?id=g5eTCwAAQBAJ&q=between+the+buttons+%22baroque+pop%22&pg=PT451 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[music hall]]<ref name=all/>
| length     = 38:51
| label      = [[Decca Records|Decca]]
| producer   = [[Andrew Loog Oldham]]
| chronology = The Rolling Stones UK
| prev_title = [[Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)]]
| prev_year  = 1966
| next_title = [[Their Satanic Majesties Request]]
| next_year  = 1967
| misc       = {{Extra chronology
| artist = The Rolling Stones US
| title = Between the Buttons
| type = studio
| year = 1967
| prev_title = [[Got Live If You Want It! (album)|Got Live If You Want It!]]
| prev_year  = 1966
| next_title = [[Flowers (Rolling Stones album)|Flowers]]
| next_year  = 1967
}}
{{Singles
 | name        = ''Between the Buttons'' {{small|(US)}}
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Ruby Tuesday (song)|Ruby Tuesday]]" / "[[Let's Spend the Night Together]]
 | single1date = 13 January 1967<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeisonourside.com/chron1967.html|title=1967 timeline}}</ref>
}}
}}

'''''Between the Buttons''''' is the fifth British and seventh American studio album by the English rock band [[the Rolling Stones]], released on 20 January 1967 in the UK and 10 February in the US. Reflecting the band's brief foray into [[psychedelia]] and [[baroque pop]] balladry during the era, the album is among their most eclectic works; multi-instrumentalist [[Brian Jones]] frequently abandoned his guitar during the sessions in favour of instruments such as [[organ (music)|organ]], [[marimba]], [[dulcimer]], [[vibraphone]], [[kazoo]], and [[theremin]]. Keyboard contributions came from two session players: former Rolling Stones member [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]] (piano, organ) and frequent contributor [[Jack Nitzsche]] (piano, [[harpsichord]]). ''Between the Buttons'' would be the last album produced by [[Andrew Loog Oldham]], who had, to this point, acted as the band's manager and produced all of their albums.

As with prior albums, the American and British versions contained slightly different track listings. The American version of ''Between the Buttons'', which swaps "[[Back Street Girl]]" and "Please Go Home" for "[[Let's Spend the Night Together]]" and "[[Ruby Tuesday (song)|Ruby Tuesday]]", is on the 2003 and 2012 versions of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. ''Between the Buttons'' reached number 3 on the British album charts and number 2 on the US [[Billboard Top LPs|''Billboard'' Top LPs]] chart.

==Recording and background==
On the previous album, ''[[Aftermath (The Rolling Stones album)|Aftermath]]'', Brian Jones introduced a large number of different instruments to the recording sessions, a trend he continued on this album. Jones only contributed electric guitar on one track apiece on the American release and the British version. [[Bill Wyman]] plays bass on all except three tracks (which instead feature Richards on bass), and drummer [[Charlie Watts]] and lead singer [[Mick Jagger]] appear on all tracks. Piano duties were split by two session players: original Rolling Stones member [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]] and frequent contributor [[Jack Nitzsche]].

Early sessions for the album occurred between 3 August 1966 and the 11th at Los Angeles' RCA Studios during the Rolling Stones' [[The Rolling Stones American Tour 1966|1966 American Tour]]. [[David Hassinger]] was the engineer for the album. Several songs were worked on; the backing tracks of six songs that would appear on the album were recorded, as were those of "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Who's Driving Your Plane?", the B-side of "[[Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?]]", released as a single in late September. During this time, [[Brian Wilson]] of [[the Beach Boys]] was invited down to RCA Studios during the recording of "My Obsession", which remains one of his favourite Rolling Stones songs.

The band returned to London, and sessions continued at IBC Studios from August 31 to September 3. "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" was completed and released on 23 September before the Stones embarked on their seventh British tour, which lasted into early October and was their last UK tour until 1971.

The second block of recording sessions for ''Between the Buttons'' began on 8 November at the newly opened [[Olympic Sound Studios]] in [[Barnes, London|Barnes]], London, alternating between Olympic and [[Pye Studios]] until 26 November. During this time, the bulk of the album was completed, including vocal and other overdubs on the previously recorded backing tracks and mixing. "Ruby Tuesday" was also completed.

Around the same time, producer Andrew Loog Oldham was also preparing the US-only live album ''[[Got Live If You Want It! (album)|Got Live If You Want It!]]'', a contractual requirement from [[London Records]] that contained live performances from their recent British tour as well as studio tracks overdubbed with audience noise. After that album's release on 10 December, a final overdubbing session for ''Buttons'' was held at Olympic Studios on 13 December 1966 before Oldham took the tapes back to RCA Studios in Hollywood for final mixing and editing.

The album was recorded using [[Multitrack recording|four-track]] machines, with tracks of the initial sessions mixed down in order to free the tracks for use as overdubs. Mick Jagger felt this process lost the clarity of the songs, commenting during an interview that "we bounced it back to do overdubs so many times we lost the sound of it. [The songs] sounded so great, but later on, I was really disappointed with it."<ref name=Davis>{{cite book |last=Davis |first=Stephen |title=Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones |publisher=Broadway Books |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7679-0956-3}}</ref> He commented further: "I don't know, it just isn't any good. 'Back Street Girl' is about the only one I like."<ref>{{cite book |last=Torres |first=Ben Fong |title=The Rolling Stone Interviews: 1967-1980 |publisher=Rolling Stone Press |year=1981 |location=New York |pages=48–49 |isbn=0-312-03486-5}}</ref> In an interview with ''[[New Musical Express]]'', he even called the rest of the album "more or less rubbish."<ref>{{cite book |last=Bronson |first=Fred |title=The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits |publisher=Billboard Books |edition=5th |year=2003 |location=New York |pages=1301 |isbn=0-8230-7677-6}}</ref>

''Between the Buttons'' would be the last album wholly produced by Oldham, with whom the Stones fell out in mid-1967 during the recording sessions for ''[[Their Satanic Majesties Request]]''.

==Artwork==
The photoshoot for the album cover took place in November 1966 on [[Primrose Hill]] in North London. The photographer was [[Gered Mankowitz]], who also shot the band photos for the cover of ''[[Out of Our Heads]]''. The shoot took place at 5:30 in the morning following an all-night recording session at Olympic Studios. Using a homemade camera filter constructed of black card, glass and [[Vaseline]], Mankowitz created the effect of the Stones dissolving into their surroundings. The goal of the shoot was, in Mankowitz's words, "to capture the ethereal, druggy feel of the time; that feeling at the end of the night when dawn was breaking and they'd been up all night making music, stoned."<ref>{{cite book |last=Craske |first=Oliver |title=Rock Faces - The World's Top Rock 'n' Roll Photographers and Their Greatest Images |publisher=Rotovision |year=2004 |pages=89 |isbn=978-2-88046-781-4}}</ref> 

The cover photo was shot at the Primrose Hill viewpoint in the misty early-morning sunlight, looking west. Brian Jones' dishevelled and gaunt appearance disturbed many of his fans, and critic David Dalton wrote that he looked "like a doomed albino raccoon."<ref name=Davis/> "Brian [Jones] was lurking in his collar", Mankowitz commented years later. "I was frustrated because it felt like we were on the verge of something really special, and he was messing it up. But the way Brian appeared to not give a shit is exactly what the band was about."<ref>{{cite book |last=Woolridge |first=Max |title=Rock 'N' Roll London |publisher=New Holland Publishers |year=2002 |location=Singapore |pages=72 |isbn=0-312-30442-0}}</ref> Outtakes from this photo session were later used for the cover and inner sleeves of the 1972 [[ABKCO]] compilation release ''[[More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)]]''.

The back cover of ''Between the Buttons'' is dominated by a six-panel cartoon accompanied by a rhythmic poem drawn by drummer Charlie Watts. When Watts asked Oldham what the title of the album would be, he told him it was "between the buttons", a name Jagger came up with after noticing the shiny buttons on Watt's shirt. <ref name=Davis/> On the album cover itself, the band name and album title appear on the buttons on Watts' overcoat. Often difficult to see, this text was included blown up on a hype sticker affixed to original US pressings and would also be added to the bottom corners of the artwork for several CD and LP reissues.

== Marketing and sales ==
''Between the Buttons'', like many British long-players of the era, differed between its UK and US versions. The UK edition (in the form Oldham and the Stones intended it) was issued on 20 January 1967 (Mono, LK 4852; Stereo, SKL 4852) on [[Decca Records]], concurrently with a separate single, "Let's Spend the Night Together" b/w "Ruby Tuesday". As was common in the British record industry at the time, the single did not appear on the album. ''Between the Buttons'' reached number three in the UK.  In the US, the album was released by London Records in early February 1967 (mono, LL 3499; stereo, PS 499). "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Ruby Tuesday" were slotted onto the album while "Back Street Girl" and "Please Go Home" were removed (these would be included on the following US odds-and-ends release, ''[[Flowers (Rolling Stones album)|Flowers]]'', in June 1967). With "Ruby Tuesday" reaching number one, ''Between the Buttons'' shot to number two in the US, going gold.

In August 2002, both editions of ''Between the Buttons'' were reissued in a new remastered CD and [[Super Audio CD|SACD]] [[digipak]] by [[ABKCO Records]].<ref name=Billboard/> Almost all reissues of the album since 1968 have been in stereo; in 2016, the album's mono release was reissued on CD, vinyl, and digital download as part of ''[[The Rolling Stones in Mono]]''. While most reissues have used the US track listing to maximise profit by featuring the two hit singles, the UK version was re-issued by ABKCO in 2003 on 180-gram vinyl in the US.

== Critical reception and legacy ==
{{Album ratings
| subtitle = Retrospective reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |last1=Unterberger |first1=Richie |title=''Between the Buttons'' – The Rolling Stones |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/between-the-buttons-mw0000191516 |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=4 May 2021 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418222211/https://www.allmusic.com/album/between-the-buttons-mw0000191516 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2Score = A<ref name="Browne">{{cite magazine |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |issue=673 |date=20 September 2002 |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/09/20/satisfaction/ |title=Satisfaction? |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |location=New York |access-date=17 October 2014 |archive-date=21 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021083236/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,350618,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[The Great Rock Discography]]''
|rev3Score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book |first=Martin C. |last=Strong |author-link=Martin C. Strong |title=The Great Rock Discography |publisher=Canongate |location=Edinburgh, UK |year=2006 |isbn=978-1841956152 |page=993}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[MusicHound Rock]]''
|rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kot |first1=Greg |editor1-last=Graff |editor1-first=Gary |editor2-last=Durchholz |editor2-first=Daniel |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |edition=second |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |location=Detroit |isbn=1578590612 |page=952 |chapter=The Rolling Stones}}</ref>
|rev5 = [[Music Story]]
|rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.music-story.com/the-rolling-stones/between-the-buttons |title=Album The Rolling Stones Between the Buttons |website=[[Music Story]] |language=fr |date=n.d. |access-date=26 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126072340/http://www.music-story.com/the-rolling-stones/between-the-buttons |archive-date=26 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="RSguide">{{cite book |chapter=The Rolling Stones |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/695 695–699] |first=Tom |last=Moon |author-link=Tom Moon |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |title=[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |year=2004 |publisher=Fireside |location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
|rev7 = [[Tom Hull (critic)|Tom Hull]]
|rev7Score = A<ref name="hull">{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=30 June 2018|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2647-Streamnotes-June-2018.html|title=Streamnotes (June 2018)|website=tomhull.com|access-date=11 February 2020|archive-date=12 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012124355/http://tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2647-Streamnotes-June-2018.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
''Between the Buttons'' was called "among the greatest rock albums" by [[Robert Christgau]],<ref>[http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/stones-76.php The Rolling Stones] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014075130/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/stones-76.php |date=14 October 2014 }}. [[Robert Christgau]]. Retrieved 17 October 2014.</ref> who later included it in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981).<ref>{{cite book |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |year=1981 |title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]] |publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]] |isbn=0899190251 |chapter=A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties |chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php |access-date=March 16, 2019 |via=robertchristgau.com |archive-date=12 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190312052515/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg70/basics.php |url-status=live }}</ref> He also wrote of the album for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's "40 Essential Albums of 1967": "[T]his underrated keeper is distinguished by complex rhymes, complex sexual stereotyping, and the non-blues, oh-so-rock-and-roll pianos of Ian Stewart, Jack Nitzsche, Nicky Hopkins, and Brian Jones."<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Christgau|first1=Robert|last2=Fricke|first2=David|date=12 July 2007|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/albums1967-07.php|title=The 40 Essential Albums of 1967|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=20 March 2020|via=robertchristgau.com|archive-date=24 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224044735/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/albums1967-07.php|url-status=live}}</ref> 

[[AllMusic]]'s [[Richie Unterberger]] hailed it as one of the Rolling Stones' "strongest, most eclectic LPs".<ref name="allmusic"/> In a retrospective review for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]] called the album "a cheeky set of sardonic [[Swinging London]] vaudeville rock",<ref name="Browne"/> while ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine's Christopher Walsh wrote that "it's brimming with overlooked gems, the band delivering a captivating blend of folky, Beatles-esque pop and tough bluesy rockers."<ref name=Billboard>{{cite news |last=Walsh |first=Christopher |title=Super audio CDs: The Rolling Stones Remastered |newspaper=Billboard |pages=27 |date=24 August 2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27 |access-date=17 October 2014 |archive-date=16 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416062136/https://books.google.com/books?id=CQwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

Tom Moon wrote in ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' (2004) that the album was "lighter and thinner" than ''Aftermath'' and, "having belatedly discovered pop melody, Jagger and Richards were suddenly overdosing on the stuff."<ref name="RSguide"/> Music scholars Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon observed [[baroque pop]] and [[music hall]] on the album.<ref name="all" /> [[Jim DeRogatis]] included ''Between the Buttons'' in his 2003 list of the essential [[psychedelic rock]] albums.<ref name="DeRogatis 2003 568" />

In 2003, the American version of ''Between the Buttons'' was ranked number 355 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list, and re-ranked number 357 in 2012.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-rolling-stones-between-the-buttons-50754/|title=Between the Buttons ranked 357th greatest album|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=18 June 2020|archive-date=4 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804234813/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-rolling-stones-between-the-buttons-50754/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Use in other media==

In a scene in [[Wes Anderson]]'s 2001 film ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'', the character Margot ([[Gwyneth Paltrow]]) plays ''Between the Buttons'' on a record player. She cues up the track "She Smiled Sweetly", which is followed by "Ruby Tuesday". ("Ruby Tuesday" appears on the US release of the album, though it does not follow "She Smiled Sweetly" in the track order).<ref>{{cite web |first=Bryan |last=Wawzenek |title=Top 15 Classic Rock Moments in Wes Anderson Movies |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/wes-anderson-classic-rock-moments/ |publisher=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=22 February 2015 |access-date=20 May 2017 |archive-date=30 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530213745/http://ultimateclassicrock.com/wes-anderson-classic-rock-moments/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Track listing==
===UK edition===
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| all_writing = [[Mick Jagger]] and [[Keith Richards]]
| title1   = [[Yesterday's Papers]]
| length1  = 2:20
| title2   = My Obsession
| length2  = 3:20
| title3   = [[Back Street Girl]]
| length3  = 3:22
| title4   = [[Connection (Rolling Stones song)|Connection]]
| length4  = 2:13
| title5   = She Smiled Sweetly
| length5  = 2:42
| title6   = Cool, Calm & Collected
| length6  = 4:15
| total_length = 18:12
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1   = All Sold Out
| length1  = 2:15
| title2   = Please Go Home
| length2  = 3:14
| title3   = Who's Been Sleeping Here?
| length3  = 3:51
| title4  = Complicated
| length4 = 3:18
| title5  = [[Miss Amanda Jones]]
| length5 = 2:48
| title6  = [[Something Happened to Me Yesterday]]
| length6 = 4:58
| total_length = 20:24
}}

=== US edition ===
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| all_writing = Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
| title1   = [[Let's Spend the Night Together]]
| length1  = 3:29
| title2   = Yesterday's Papers
| length2  = 2:20
| title3   = [[Ruby Tuesday (song)|Ruby Tuesday]]
| length3  = 3:12
| title4   = Connection
| length4  = 2:13
| title5   = She Smiled Sweetly
| length5  = 2:42
| title6   = Cool, Calm & Collected
| length6  = 4:15
| total_length = 18:11
}}

{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1   = All Sold Out
| length1  = 2:15
| title2   = My Obsession
| length2  = 3:20
| title3   = Who's Been Sleeping Here?
| length3  = 3:51
| title4  = Complicated
| length4 = 3:18
| title5  = [[Miss Amanda Jones]]
| length5 = 2:48
| title6  = Something Happened to Me Yesterday
| length6 = 4:58
| total_length = 20:30
}}

==Personnel==
As per the American release.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rollingstones.com/ |title=The Rolling Stones {{!}} Official Website |access-date=6 February 2014 |archive-date=24 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524001419/http://www.rollingstones.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Stone Alone - Bill Wyman</ref><ref>Rolling With The Stones - Bill Wyman</ref><ref>Rolling Stones Sessions - Martin Elliott</ref><ref>It's Only Rock n Roll - Karnbach and Bernson</ref>

'''The Rolling Stones'''
*[[Mick Jagger]] – lead and backing vocals, tambourine, [[Kick drum|bass drum]] and harmonica
*[[Brian Jones]] – organ, electric guitar, recorder, vibraphone, tambourine, harmonica, dulcimer, kazoo, theremin, handclaps
*[[Keith Richards]] – electric guitar, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, bass, double bass and co-lead vocals
*[[Charlie Watts]] – drums and maracas, handclaps
*[[Bill Wyman]] – bass guitar, double bass, handclaps and backing vocals

'''Additional musicians'''
*[[Jack Nitzsche]] – piano and [[harpsichord]]
*[[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]] – piano and organ 
*[[Nicky Hopkins]] - keyboards <ref>{{cite web|url=https://therollingstonesshop.com/products/between-the-buttons-us-cd?|publisher=The Rolling Stones|author=The Rolling Stones|title=Between The Buttons}}</ref>
*Unidentified session musicians – [[brass]] (tuba, trumpet, saxophone), conducted by Art Greenslade on 'Something Happened to me Yesterday'
*Nick De Caro – [[accordion]] on 'Back Street Girl'

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Chart (1967)
! Peak<br/>position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=AUS>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
| align="center"| 7
|-
! scope="row"| Finland ([[The Official Finnish Charts]])<ref name=FINI>{{cite book|last=Pennanen|first=Timo|title=Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972|edition=1st|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|location=Helsinki|year=2006|isbn=978-951-1-21053-5| language= fi}}</ref>
| align="center"| 9
|-
{{Album chart|Germany4|2|id=21060|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Between the Buttons|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
{{Album chart|Norway|2|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Between the Buttons|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
{{Album chart|UK|3|artist=The Rolling Stones|album=Out of Our Heads|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|-
{{Album chart|Billboard200|2|artist=The Rolling Stones|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 December 2022}}
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=The Rolling Stones|title=Between the Buttons|award=Gold|relyear=1967|certyear=1967}}
{{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Discogs master|30241}}

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