Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York reaches 900 weeks on the U.K. rock albums chart as Nevermind nears the 1,500-week milestone on the same list.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many fans might have preferred some bracing footage of Nirvana fully amped up and defiantly live before a seething mosh pit.

During its heyday in the 1990s, “MTV Unplugged” gave artists a platform to escape the confines of the recording studio and the glut of special-effects-laden music videos. They performed unadorned, raw ...