It’s been on there for, cumulatively, 943 weeks and counting. (This doesn’t have anything to do with the Backstreet Boys, but it’s just a cool thing: Do you know the album that’s had the longest run on the Billboard Top 200 chart? It’s Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. It was on the Billboard Top 200 chart for 93 weeks.I’m not sure if the weeks being nonconsecutive makes it more impressive or less impressive, but the difference between those two things is marginal at best so it probably doesn’t even matter. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart for 10 weeks. It sold nearly 500,000 copies in its first day in America alone.So many, in fact, that it became, in that moment, the fastest-selling album ever of the SoundScan era. It sold 1.13 million copies in its first week.

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It was like they were saying, “We just conquered everything. Unless you’re someone who’s felt compelled to watch Reality Bites more than three times, in which case you exclusively say things like that.) You can say that, even all these years later, the Rolling Stone cover where they all had their pants around their ankles that came out during the victory lap celebrating Millennium’s success still feels a tiny bit weird. (Wrong, but fine.) You can say that that particular period of record-label glut, of which Millennium was a clear example, felt like being force-fed copper in your mouth. You can say you think Millennium was bad. We’re celebrating that by definitively ranking its top songs and albums, 20 years later. The Ringer’s 40 Best Singles and Albums of 1999ġ999 was one of the most interesting music years ever.

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