The 90s definitely had a better environment for selling albums than any other decade, but I would think 1 hit for selling an album did happen (I'm thinking of CD's Let's taĺk about love or Hootie & the Blowfish or MC Hammer), but your examples fit less in this format. Alanis actually had airplay and MTV exposure for at least 4/5 songs off JLP and 3 songs off Shania's COO were big hits. That 1 of them is now proving long-term succes in streaming, doesn't say much about the situation in the 90s IMO.

Hi Admin,

Just wondering why ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU by MC only is not updated in this list (though it already has 19M on MC article). This list includes only the collab of MC and JB at 16M CSPC. Is there any reason for omission or just a typo error only.
Thank you.

I mean not updated on the ALL TIME TOP SONGS list.

Thanks a lot. I totally agree with you. As i live in Europe, Alanis or Shania's multiple hits might have gone less noticed, I'm not sure. I'm also feeling MC's huge success in the US charts was pushed a lot by airplays. I think radios were more R&B friendly. If I remember correctly in 2008, "4 minutes to save the world" was the top selling single in the US at some point but couldn't reach the top of the Hot100 due to smaller airplays (that was a discussion among fans back then)

She was very loved by American radio stations and also had a huge fan base at that time.

Her 2005-2009 era is EATING UP

Why does AIWFCIY figure here as 19 million EAS but on the songs ranking, shows as a 16 million EAS? And why does the songs ranking display the feature with justin bieber but not the solo version?

Why have half of her songs been "deparented" from their albums all of a sudden on the daily streaming tool. eg. #beautiful no longer on me. i am, gtfo no longer on caution, etc. etc.

Just looking into it now and it seems it's back to normal. When tracks happen to miss on a day, we need to reset the scanning of the discography through Spotify's API, and when albums are served back to build it anew, the ordering may vary. The album displayed for tracks reflects the 1st one on which we saw that track. 

This is part of the subject that I'll try to tackle in the next version of the tool that hopefully will be out over the next weeks.

The issue for AIWFCIY was fixed a couple of weeks ago (I though I had posted it here but possibly that was on Xmas' milestone thread), it should be fine now!