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: Dookie – Green Day
Dookie – Green Day – 1994 Claimed Sales: 20m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music Green Day are an impatient bunch, at just over 38 minutes, Dookie is one of the shortest albums in this series. There’s very little time to ease into each of these 15 tracks, none of which last longer than 4 minutes so … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Music Box – Mariah Carey
Music Box – Mariah Carey – 1993 Claimed Sales: 25m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music There’s one artist that I knew would be eligible for this series that I have been dreading. I guess you could say that I’m ‘not a fan’ of Mariah Carey. It’s a bit of a surprise to people who expect … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Happy Nation/The Sign – Ace of Base
Happy Nation/The Sign – Ace of Base – 1992 Claimed Sales: 23m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music We’ve entered the territory of worldwide differences to albums now and Ace of Base’s continues the trend of Swedish bands who score breakout success with different versions of the same album. Originally released in 1992 as Happy Nation, it … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album – Whitney Houston / Various Artists
The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album – Whitney Houston / Various Artists – 1992 Claimed Sales: 44m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: CD If there’s a moment in pop music that every single person can agree on, it’s surely that moment of silence before ‘DUN…AND IIIIII’ on I Will Always Love You. I don’t need to write 500 words to … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Unplugged – Eric Clapton
Unplugged – Eric Clapton – 1992 Claimed Sales: 20m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music Unlike anything else I’ve covered as part of this series, Unplugged is the only live album that has sold anywhere close to as many copies as the rest of these records. Its success is not simply surprising given it was recorded as an … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Dangerous – Michael Jackson
Dangerous – Michael Jackson – 1991 Claimed Sales: 31m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music Dangerous is such a strange album to come from the biggest artist of all time. Unlike the albums that preceded it, the tightly packed hits of Thriller and Bad, Dangerous is full of overly long dance tracks and clocks in at well over … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Nevermind – Nirvana
Nevermind – Nirvana – 1991 Claimed Sales: 30m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music Nevermind set the tone for the 90s, am era where guitar bands ruled the airwaves once more. The influence of this album is impossible to deny, even when the band’s critics, and the band themselves, often cited it as ‘too commercial’ alternative … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Metallica – Metallica
Metallica – Metallica – 1991 Claimed Sales: 30m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music Metallica remains to this day the biggest selling album of the US SoundScan era standing at 16 million copies sold in that country alone. It’s hard to imagine an album like Metallica seeing this level of success outside of their home country, … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Faith – George Michael
Faith – George Michael – 1987 Claimed Sales: 20m First listen?: No Format Listened?: Apple Music The debut solo album from the lead star of a pop band is a funny thing to consider. Much like Off The Wall earlier in this series, Faith technically wasn’t George Michael’s true ‘debut’ into the public consciousness, his debut … Continue reading
The World’s Greatest Hits: Hysteria – Def Leppard
Hysteria – Def Leppard – 1987 Claimed Sales: 20m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: CD Conceived as the ‘Metal version of Thriller’ by producer Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange, Hysteria at least has the same level of consistency across its tracks as the biggest album of all time. Whether you could possibly describe this 80s Pop Rock album as … Continue reading
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