Use Your Illusion II is the fourth studio album by the American
rock band
Guns N' Roses. It was one of two albums released in conjunction with the
Use Your Illusion Tour, along with
Use Your Illusion I. Bolstered by the lead single "
You Could Be Mine,"
Use Your Illusion II was the slightly more popular of the two albums, selling 770,000 copies its first week and debuting at No. 1 on the
U.S. charts, ahead of
Use Your Illusion I's first week sales of 685,000. Both albums have since been certified 7× Platinum by the
RIAA. It was also No. 1 on the
UK Albums Chart for a single week. It is the last Guns N' Roses album to feature rhythm guitarist
Izzy Stradlin. It also included the last Guns N' Roses song to feature drummer
Steven Adler, who played on "
Civil War."