Mick Jagger’s ‘Wandering Spirit’: Acclaimed but Commercially Stillborn, and How ‘Sweet Thing’ Scraped the Charts

Mick Jagger’s third solo album Wandering Spirit (1993) is generally regarded as his best solo effort — Rolling Stone gave it 3.5 stars, AllMusic 4.5, and critics praised its lean, energetic rock sound. Yet it sold only around 200,000 copies in the U.S