Departing from the Fugees immediately after their breakthrough was a risky move from Lauryn Hill. Quickly, doubts were evacuated with The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill becoming a classic on its own. This week, it joined the club of US Diamond …
Killing Me Softly is one of these songs which strikes everyone instantly. You don’t need multiple plays to fell in love with it. Even if it is a cover of Roberta Flack, the imprint of the Fugees was obvious. Soon, …
Lauryn Hill perfectly switched from her successful stint with the Fugees to her solo career. Her album The Miseducation Of… had a deep impact on an entire generation. Are people still learning from its songs over two decades later?
After a discreet first album, the Fugees exploded with their sophomore effort The Score to become one of the most iconic groups of the 90s. How popular remain songs like Killing Me Softly, Ready or Not or Fu-Gee-La?
This week, we injected over 17,000 shipment codes from Brazil amounting to 162 million sales to our Receipts Database. As it happens, they reflect perfectly album sales in the country since their introduction in 2003. So let’s dig into them …
It has been 5 years since ChartMasters.org is online. It started with a large string of articles about the best selling albums of all-time in France, articles which served to created the comprehensive top sellers list. Several years later, we …
While YouTube doesn’t bring in as much money to the music industry as say Spotify or Apple Music, is it a major player nonetheless, and especially in certain markets. A very diverse platform, artists from all around the world feature …
Among all-time top selling artists, Mannheim Steamroller may be the least well-known of them, yet they are possibly the most fascinating of all. In fact, everything you think you know about music is challenged by the incredible career trajectory of …
This week, Christmas titles broke all kind of records on streaming platforms, with Mariah Carey‘s All I Want For Christmas Is You hitting 17 million daily plays on Spotify. During pure sales era, Christmas kings were Mannheim Steamroller. How are …
Starting her career so strongly, the popularity of Lady Gaga inevitably began to diminish album by album. As the years passed by, that’s exactly how her career was being painted but then out of the blue, the singer decide to …
