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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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