Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd – 1975 Claimed Sales: 13m First listen?: No Format Listened?: Apple Music It’s near impossible to fully understand the weight of expectation that lay on Pink Floyd’s shoulders as they attempted to follow up one of the most critically acclaimed and successful albums of all time, The Dark Side of the … Continue reading
Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin – 1975 Claimed Sales: 16m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music The Double Albums from the 70s era I’ve covered in this series so far seem to follow the same mould, expansive records that attempt to tell two sides of the same story (The Wall), or two different takes on … Continue reading
Greatest Hits – Elton John – 1974 Claimed Sales: 17m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Vinyl Elton John is finally part of the World’s Greatest Hits and it’s appropriate that it’s his very first compilation that became his biggest seller of all time. There’s something to admire about hits collections like this – just 10 tracks long, there’s … Continue reading
1962-1966 (The Red Album) – The Beatles – 1973 Claimed Sales: 15m First listen?: Yes (this collection at least) Format Listened?: Apple Music Beatles compilations are a funny thing. During the heyday of Beatlemania there were countless official, unofficial and seemingly random compilations for various territories across the world. Of course this kept the focus purely on … Continue reading
Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits – Simon & Garfunkel – 1972 Claimed Sales: 13m First listen?: No Format Listened?: Vinyl/Apple Music Sometimes it doesn’t take a lot to understand why an artist is massively successful. Taking elements of folk music and making it relevant for an audience experiencing the swinging 60s made Paul Simon one of the era’s defining … Continue reading
The Beatles (The White Album) – The Beatles – 1968 Claimed Sales: 19m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music The White Album is a daunting prospect for a new listener. Thirty songs split over two records that last over 90 minutes when combined, it’s certainly a far cry from the conciseness of their previous album Sgt … Continue reading
Rubber Soul marks the true turning point in the career of The Beatles. Fresh off a series of soundtrack albums for films starring the band, it’s the first true ‘album’ they released and all but changed the format for good. There’s certainly big hit-worthy singles on here, but it’s much more of a single body of work than anyone would have expected from the boys just two years after Beatlemania. Continue reading
Confessions – Usher – 2004 Claimed Sales: 20m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music/CD It’s a surprise even to me that I had never listened to Usher’s career defining album Confessions, especially given that I was a huge fan of the albums that followed. It stands alone in the 00s as a huge selling RnB release, where its … Continue reading
Hybrid Theory – Linkin Park – 2000 Claimed Sales: 27m First listen?: Yes Format Listened?: Apple Music I was really looking forward to my first full listen of Linkin Park’s much celebrated debut album, I have always been a casual fan of the group, their singles making up the soundtrack to so many of my nights out growing up … Continue reading
Oops!…I Did It Again – Britney Spears – 2000 Claimed Sales: 20m First listen?: No Format Listened?: CD Oops!… Britney did it again and managed to produce a second album that nearly became as popular as her debut. Opening with sales over 1 million copies in her home territory, the anticipation for the follow up to …Baby … Continue reading
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