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Originally posted by TheSoneNavy
Cause singles didn't sell during that time. CD singles were pretty low. The best selling singles during the 90s (each year) only sold up between 600k - 1 Million. People just bought the albums. Plus it was pointless to just listen to 2 songs (1 b-side) over and over again. I'd rather have the full album
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That's not true at all! Except for 1994 and 1999-2000 I'm just sticking with Double Platinum/2 million plus selling singles:
1989 -- Tone Locs "Wild Thing" 2.5-3 million
1990 -- Madonna's "Vogue" (1990) sold over 2 million,
1991 -- Color Me Bad's "I Want To Sex You Up" sold over 2 million, and Bryan Adams "Everything I Do I Do It For You" sold 4.1 million!
1992 -- Kris Kross "Jump" sold 2.1 million, Sir Mix A Lot "Baby Got Back" sold 2.4 million
1993 (including run-over sales from late 1992 and early 1994) -- Wrecks In Effect "Rump Shaker" sold 2 million, Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" sold 4.6 million! (#2 physical single of Soundscan era), Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is" sold over 3.5 million and went Quadruple Platinum (maxi singles counted double)!
1994 -- The only year no song got close to 2 million, but Boys To Men's "I'll Make Love To You" sold over 1.6 million and All-For-Ones "I Swear" sold over 1.5 million
1995 (going into early 1996) -- Coolio's "Gangster's Paradise" sold 3 million, Mariah Carey "Fantasy" went Double Platinum selling 1.7 million (maxi singles), Carey/Boys To Men "One Sweet Day" sold 2.3 million
1996 -- BIG Year, Bone Thugs In Harmony "The Crossroads" sold 2 million, Tupac/Dr.Dre/K-Ci and JoJo "California Love/How Do You Want It" sold 2 million, and Macarena sold 4.2-4.4 million!
1997 -- Another BIG Year--Toni Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart" sold 2.4 million (some sales from 1996), Puff Daddy's "Can't Hold Me Down" sold 2.7 million and "I'll Be Missing You" sold 3.1 million (all maxi-singles for the second song, meaning the singles cost $6 or more), and of course Elton John's "Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight" sold 8.8 million (into early 1998, and another 2 million at non-Soundscan stores)! and LeAnn Times "How Do I Live" (into early 1999) sold 3.7 million copies!
1998 -- Brandy/Monica "The Boy Is Mine" 2.6 million, Next "Too Close" 2.1 million, Shania Twain's "You're Still The One" 2 million
1999 (including late 1998 sales) -- both Cher's "Believe" and Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed To Be Here" sold nearly 2 million copies, and Santana's "Smooth" sold 1.5 million (the last song to do so)
By 2000 physical sales really did start crashing, but Missy Elliott's "Hot Boys", Santana's "Maria Maria", Siquo's "Incomplete", and Madonna's "Music" all sold 1-1.35 million copies. Also Faith Hills "Breathe" sold 900k, and Britney Spears "From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart" went Platinum selling 800k
Yes I'm putting something together with this information, which is why I had it handy!