Poison is an American
rock band that achieved great commercial success in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Poison has sold over 45 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the
Top 40 of the
Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and the Hot 100 number-one, "
Every Rose Has Its Thorn". The band's breakthrough debut album, the multi-platinum
Look What the Cat Dragged In, was released in 1986 and they hit their peak with the second album,
Open Up and Say... Ahh!, which became the band's most successful album, being certified 5x platinum in the US. The popularity continued into the new decade with their third consecutive multi-platinum selling album,
Flesh & Blood.