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Slant's "The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s": #90 [171] Rock Hard magazine's The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time: #341 [134] Classic Rock and Metal Hammer's 200 Greatest Albums of the 90s [87] Visions' "300 Albums for Eternity": #64 [533] 12 October 1999 Black On Both Sides: Mos Def: East Coast hip hop [534] Rawkus/Priority
The album peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart and sold very well, due to the success of its single "More Than Words", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart a year later. Judas Priest was involved in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit involving two Nevada teenager suicides allegedly caused by the song " Better by You ...
The 1990s brought a new methodology of measuring airplay on the Billboard charts, and its impact was shown in the Album Rock Tracks chart. [1] Songs stayed on the chart for a long time and fewer songs made it on the chart.
Every decade takes a couple of years to feel like itself, but the 1990s, in particular, had a soft launch. While 1991 would bring a bumper crop of era-defining albums from the likes of Nirvana ...
Timeline of the highest-selling album record Year record set Artist Album Record-setting sales (millions) Total sales (millions) Ref(s) 1945 Various Artists Oklahoma! (78 rpm album) 0.5 1.0 [218] [219] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [220] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [221] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
VH1's 100 Greatest Albums of Rock and Roll - 2; Bill Shapiro's Top 100 Rock Compact Discs - 3; Jimmy Guterman's 100 Best Rock and Roll Records of All Time - 4; All Music - Rock & Roll (Top Albums) - 5; Illinois Entertainer's 50 Great Albums (A Rock Time Capsule) [citation needed] - 6; Dagbladet's 25 Best Rock and Pop Albums of the Century - 7
The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band topped the list, with Rolling Stone ' s editors describing it as "the most important rock 'n' roll album ever made". [9] The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds (1966) was ranked second in recognition of its influence on Sgt. Pepper . [ 10 ]
The album raised rap music to a new level of popularity. It was the first hip-hop album certified diamond by the RIAA for sales of over ten million. [3] It remains one of the genre's all-time best-selling albums. [4] To date, the album has sold over 18 million copies worldwide. [5] [6] [7] [8]