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Mariah Carey's self-titled debut album was the longest running number-one album of the year, spending 11 consecutive weeks atop the chart and was the best-selling album of 1991. [2] Starting in 1991, Billboard began using Nielsen Soundscan data for its album chart, which provided more precise and accurate sales figures. [3]
Release Date Album Artist Genre(s) Label Notes Accolades 27 March 1991 () [60]: Spiderland: Slint: Post-rock; post-hardcore; math rock; Touch and Go: Widely regarded as foundational to the 1990s post-rock and math rock movements.
The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 20, 1991. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. ... Best Album Package. Jeffrey ...
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.
Although the year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough, heavy metal was still the dominant form of rock music for the year. [1] Therefore, Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", was not the most popular U.S. album of the year.
Metallica's self-titled album is the highest selling record under Nielsen SoundScan, selling over 17 million copies. This is a list of best-selling albums in the United States of the Nielsen SoundScan era. SoundScan began tracking sales data for Billboard on March 1, 1991.
Mariah Carey (pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1991. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1991. [1]
#1 Album #1 Adult Contemporary Artist Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey; Mariah Carey #1 Pop Artist #1 Album Rock Track Mariah Carey; Queensrÿche – Silent Lucidity #1 Modern Rock Artist #1 World Album R.E.M. R.E.M. – Out of Time #1 New Pop Male Artist #1 R&B Single Ralph Tresvant; Rude Boys – Written All Over Your Face #1 Album Rock Artist