Best of 2025: Top 40 Singles
My Top 40 singles of 2025 including Self Esteem, JADE, Lady Gaga, Bon Iver and Fred again..
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The World’s Greatest Hits: Millennium – Backstreet Boys
Millennium – Backstreet Boys – 1999 Claimed Sales: 24m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: CD To say that the follow up to Backstreet’s Back was highly anticipated is a massive understatement and nearly 2 years after the various versions of that album took over the world Millennium was released. It sold 1.134 million copies in its debut week, breaking … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: …Baby One More Time – Britney Spears
…Baby One More Time – Britney Spears – 1999 Claimed Sales: 28m First listen?: No Format Listened?: CD Open a list of classic songs from the 90s, pop leaning or otherwise and it’s more than a certainty that opener and title track …Baby One More Time will make appearance. The opening three notes echo across pretty much … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture – James Horner
Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture – James Horner – 1997 Claimed Sales: 30m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music An album unlike anything else I’ve covered so far, Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture is the biggest selling album to be mostly an orchestral score. Obviously there are vocals every now and again, one instance … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Let’s Talk About Love – Celine Dion
Let’s Talk About Love – Celine Dion – 1997 Claimed Sales: 31m First listen?: No Format Listened?: Apple Music Once again we have an album that I heard a lot growing up. Let’s Talk About Love was a big favourite of my mum’s in the late 90s as well as about 31 million other people across the … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Backstreet Boys/Backstreet’s Back – Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys/Backstreet’s Back – Backstreet Boys – 1997 Claimed Sales: 24m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: CD/Apple Music Possible the most confusing album release I’ve covered in this series, for some reason the debut album for the 90s most prolific boyband was never released in their home country of the US. Backstreet Boys was a commercial smash … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Falling Into You – Celine Dion
Falling Into You – Celine Dion – 1996 Claimed Sales: 32m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: CD/Apple Music Celine Dion owned the 90s. It’s genuinely a surprise that it has taken me this long to cover one of her albums and it’s more of a surprise that I had never listened to Falling Into You before. Her … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Daydream – Mariah Carey
Daydream – Mariah Carey – 1995 Claimed Sales: 25m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music Mariah Carey appears here once again with an album that was said to make her transition from Pop to RnB permanent. In the end there’s really not much difference between this and her previous studio album Music Box, it’s a mixture … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I – Michael Jackson
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I – Michael Jackson – 1995 Claimed Sales: 20m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music HIStory: Past Present and Future, Book I is such an interesting album is to consider in context. Disc one here is a tightly packed Greatest Hits collection, while the second is a full length follow up to 1991’s Dangerous. … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: The Woman in Me – Shania Twain
The Woman in Me – Shania Twain – 1995 Claimed Sales: 20m First listen?: No Format Listened?: CD/Apple Music It’s hard to imagine a time where Shania Twain wasn’t the biggest country artist of all time. Albums that can be considered one of the World’s Greatest Hits don’t come much bigger than 1997’s Come On Over but two … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Cross Road – Bon Jovi
Cross Road – Bon Jovi – 1994 Claimed Sales: 21m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music Oh great. Even more Bon Jovi for me to enjoy. This time it’s the turn of Cross Road a greatest hits collection that has actually far outsold Slippery When Wet here in the UK. Unlike most greatest hits collections I’ve covered … Continue reading
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