"Generation Terrorists" was released on 10 February 1992. The album entered the UK Rock Chart at No. 1, selling around 250,000 copies worldwide initially. These sales coincided with the 1992 BRIT Awards, whose winners relegated "Generation Terrorists" to a peak of No. 13 in the UK Albums Chart. Early pressings of the album contain a sample from "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the start of "Little Baby Nothing". It was removed from later pressings and does not appear on the legacy 20th anniversary edition of the album. The success of 1996's "Everything Must Go" at the 1997 BRIT Awards ensured that sales of "Generation Terrorists" and subsequent albums "Gold Against the Soul" and "The Holy Bible" enjoyed a late surge; the band's debut sold an extra 110,000 copies.