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August 12 – The Backstreet Boys release their U.S. debut album, Backstreet Boys. August 14 – Godspeed You! Black Emperor releases debut album, F♯ A♯ ∞; August 16–17 – Phish perform at the two-day music festival, The Great Went, at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine, US. They play 500 minutes of music, six sets and two encores.
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
January 25 – Alice in Chains release their Jar of Flies album which makes its US chart debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so. January 29 – The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles, USA. Wilson's 14-year-old son is killed in the accident.
The following is a list of the best-selling albums in the United States based on RIAA certification and Nielsen SoundScan sales tracking. The criteria are that the album must have been published (including self-publishing by the artist), and the album must have achieved at least a diamond certification from the RIAA.
June 18 – Mexican Pop-Singer Paulina Rubio, releases her sixth studio album and debut-English crossover album in the U.S., titled Border Girl through Universal Records, she performed for the very first time live her hit single Don't Say Goodbye on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, [12] the album debuted at #11 on the Billboard 200 with sales of ...
July 12 – Opening of the Chamber-Music Festival of Kuhmo, Finland (until July 26). [15] July 18 – Whitney Houston marries Bobby Brown. July 28 – Ice-T announces that the controversial track "Cop Killer" is being pulled from Body Count's self-titled album. August 2. Rozalla becomes the first artist from Zimbabwe to chart on the US ...
The track first appeared on the 1996 ocean conservancy benefit album M.O.M.: Music for Our Mother Ocean and features guitarist Stone Gossard singing antiquated surfing catchphrases atop a garage-y ...
Among the albums recorded at the Record Plant were The Eagles' Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. 1 March – Nielsen SoundScan begins tracking sales data for Nielsen. 11 March – Janet Jackson signs a US$30 million contract with Virgin Records, making her the highest paid female recording ...