most awarded pop album of all time

Released in 1982, the album has sold roughly 70 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling album of all time. Well, not about the spaceship rest stops, but about what giddy, playful compositions like "Electronic Can-Can" and "Computer In Love" presaged namely, a future where Daft Punk and Dr. Luke defined the parameters as much as any axe-wielding rocker, thanks to the Moog, the Ondioline and their digital descendants being just as likely to create chart-topping hits as guitars. Drake cited West as his budding sound's "most influential person" when he was hustling mixtapes, while artists like Future further tweaked the idea of using Auto-Tune as a way to convey emotions that evoke too much feeling when spoken of explicitly. And while Olatunji slipped below the radar during Afropop's 1980s heyday, he opened the Grateful Dead's 1985 New Year's Eve show, introducing the Americas' most visible African-music presence to a new young audience. Shes absolute trash. The Grammy award for Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and production team of a full album. With their innocent romanticism and meticulous vocal arrangements, Boyz II Men became the most commercially successful R&B vocal group of all time. By 2016, Alison Krauss had won a total of 27 Grammy Awards and 42 Nominations, and this tied her with Quincy Jones to appear as most awarded recipient still living. Beyonc now counts 32 total GRAMMY wins. Check out: Autumn In New York, One of the best pop albums and greatest Americana albumswas made by an artist who hadnt yet set foot the States. Check out: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Tina Turner pulled a small coup here by harnessing the sleek sounds of mid-80s synth-pop to the lyrical perspective of a worldly-wise diva. - Best Ever Albums user rating: 83. The singer, who was a late arrival at the ceremony after being stuck in traffic, won for. Jon Batiste won five Grammys, including album of the year for "We Are.". Talk Talk The Colour of Spring Idlewild South was packed with Duane's Muscle Shoals-weaned smarts too, turning hippie boogie to shimmering AM gold. The album features some of Jackson's most iconic songs, including "Beat It" and "Billie Jean." The Oklahoma-born Guthrie pioneered music as reportage, offering details and pathos from the frontlines of an American disaster area. 463 Sony Music: Serrat-Sabina, Michel Tel, Adele y Bersuit", "Danish album certifications Adele 21", "Adele sells over 250,000 albums in Ireland", "New Zealand album certifications Adele 21", "OFFICIAL CYTA- IFPI CHARTS Top-75 Albums Sales Chart", "Adele says she battled depression, before and after son's birth", "Danish album certifications Beatles One", "Beatles' catalog will be reissued September 9 in remastered versions", "Column - Still hungry? Classic soul (I Cant Stand The Rain) meets theatrical monologues (Private Dancer), with a strong feminist sensibility throughout on one of the greatest pop albums of the era. The Best Pop Albums of All Time Decade All Time Source All Genre Pop 26. Year: Awards: Result: 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2. 8. Todd Rundgren 4. The week's most popular albums as compiled by Luminate, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). The Beatles didn't stop touring till the summer of 1966, but a year earlier, on Rubber Soul, you can hear them deciding to make the recording studio their home. While six of the best pop albums on this list are from the 1960s, the three subsequent decades feature an increasing number of bests, with 33 of them released in the 1990s. And though definitions of "frontlines" continues to mutate, Dust Bowl Ballads both its wryness and its gravitas defined the bard-on-the-scene responsibilities adhered to by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Public Enemy, the Clash and countless others. The Watts Prophets (Amde Hamilton, Otis O'Solomon and Richard Dedeaux) dropped smolderingly radical bowshots ("They Shot Him") as well as moments of somber introspect ("The Days, The Hours"). Frank Sinatras Songs For Swingin Lovers is technically a jazz album. Listened to with five decades of perspective, the most shocking aspect of the Velvet Underground's 1967 debut aren't its taboo-busting songs about hard drugs and hard sex, but the songs themselves. Check out: Heart Of Glass, Considering David Bowie wasnt remotely famous when he made this album, its audacity is something to behold. between 1975 and 1990 are required to have their claimed figures supported by 3050% in certified units. 12. Quiz Type #3 - Multiple Choice Sound. 14. These are albums that touched hearts around the world, represented a cultural era and, invariably, sound fresh to this day. 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They won for the first time in 1987, when they claimed Album of the Year ("The Joshua Tree"). 24/7 Tempo has identified the 100 best pop albums of all time based on an album's performance on the Billboard 200 chart, which ranks the weekly 200 most popular albums across all genres,. "Jin-Go-Lo-Ba," the album's most memorable track, has been covered by Santana ("Jingo"), Serge Gainsbourg ("Marabout") and Fatboy Slim, among others. Her album, 1989, won this award and Album of the Year in 2016. "I can't tell if it's worth it." It was a long-time coming, being their 8th studio album. 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There had been no-nonsense women country stars before, of course, but Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline (to choose just two obvious antecedents) never had a gold album. I have a soft spot for Milla Jovovichs The Divine Comedy.. Framing Brian Wilson as rock's premier singer / songwriter / arranger / producer / musician, the album likewise created the mystique (and self-indulgent temptations) of the pop auteur. Sgt Pepper is usually considered one of the greatest rock albums. And Where is Mariah? Pepper's wasn't the first album to blend rock music with high art, but it was probably the first time that musicians of the Beatles' stature and popularity (if there even were musicians of their stature and popularity before them) decided to turn their back so completely on what had made them famous. Platinum record for Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982), the best-selling album of all time This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact disks. If music is alive it grows and evolves. Suddenly Istanbul seemed a little less farther away, or California, a little more. For an R&B star with two recent pop chart-toppers to cross over into a genre often considered a commercial backwater with a niche rural audience was a stroke of counterintuitive genius. Check out: Elis Comin, How do you harness an unearthly voice like Aaron Nevilles? This Sunday, the 65th Grammy Awards saw Trevor Noah step up as host for the third time running, claiming the stage of the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Debbie Harry gives one stellar performance after another playing a West Side Story heroine one minute and sending it all up the next and every track on Parallel Lines sounds like the AM radio of your dreams. R&B fans don't shell out for live albums, he tried to tell his headstrong star, a hit single is what they dig. It immediately raised the bar for soul, funk and R&B, and it pushed Marvin Gaye and Sly & the Family Stone to respond by releasing their own landmarks shortly after. Michael Jackson and Santana Santana is in good company with The King of Pop. Check out: Lets Face The Music And Dance, What, instead of Sgt Pepper? One of the world's newest pop sensations, Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell (known professionally as Billie Eilish) has taken the globe by storm with her ethereal vocal style and innovative experimental and dark pop themes in her music. The exact number of all awards received by an artist is difficult to verify because there is no organization regularly tracking the data. Here is where white American kids got the notion they could play the blues. (That is 1.33% for each additional year after 1975. Check out: With You In Mind, Long before world music became a marketing strategy, Frank Sinatra and arranger Billy May took a jet-set trip around the globe, making every destination sound like a place where you could fall in love, savour the food and spirits, and generally live the good life. How To Dress Well Love Remains Combining Lou Reed's skills honed as a staff songwriter at Pickwick Records, the possibilities of John Cale's time exploring drones with La Monte Young and the austere, nearly cymbal-less drumming of Maureen Tucker, The Velvet Underground & Nico became a singular and slow-selling cornerstone in an alternative unfolding of rock history. Every track practically screams, Heres another place you didnt think pop music could go. He begins the album by effectively killing off the 60s on Changes, then Oh! Her accolades include 2 Emmy Awards, 6 Grammy Awards (including Record and Album of the year wins), 14 World Music Awards, 16 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards and collected a total 28 entries in within the Guinness World Records. In turn, the soundtrack served not so much as a venue for a hot new sound, but a diplomatic introduction to something that had been percolating for years. Jackson. Its core aesthetic was like nothing in hip-hop: freshly butchered feelings enumerated in detail, but masked by digital processing; beds of spare synths used to balance a mix of singing and rapping. (in its proper, UK version) was where The Beatles creative imagination really took flight: John with his daring lyrical angles (the title song and Youve Got to Hide Your Love Away), Paul with his most soaring melodies (The Night Before and Yesterday). 'Fantasy' (1995) "Fantasy" is a hit song by Mariah Carey, released in 1995. At this point he was unmatchable as a singer, writer and stylist, and the grooves dont let up. In a world of house and techno driven by dance-floor whims especially in rave-addled England Warp Records were driven by the bottom line when they decided to market a "home listening" version of electronic music: Comfortable, older, middle-class types liable to buy an living room record were a more reliable audience for CD sales than trend-chasing kids. ", Never had rock music been so fussy or so technical, forgoing the pleasure of the moment for the rarefied pursuits of multi-song suites and breakdowns in time signatures no teenager would dare try to do the mashed potato alongside. I dont think it could be topped, in fact its way more ambitious than Thriller. 19. As a member of the boy band Take That he took part in recording 12 top 10 UK pop singles, including seven No. The Awardist Taylor Swift makes history as most awarded artist of all time at American Music Awards Swift beat Michael Jackson's record of 24 all-time wins. This list details a majority of Whitney's awards. 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Establishing group improvisation in rock, Live/Dead was (like James Brown's Live at the Apollo) music that could only be created on a stage. Not only did King secure a foothold for women as hit songwriters, but as a singer, she broke down the double-standard that allowed men like Bob Dylan to use their imperfect voices to express personality, but constrained women to harsher standards of precision. Check out: Dont Stop Til You Get Enough, Taylor Swifts Redis the perfect update of Blondies Parallel Lines, and it took a fast-evolving country artist to make it. to modern indie rock. The Beach Boys - Sunflower August 31, 1970 Critic Score 93 5 reviews Amazon iTunes Music Spotify 27. Four artists have won the Album of the Year award more than once. ), in 2000 and onwards are required to have their claimed figures supported by 6080% in certified units. [a] Certified copies are sourced from available online databases of local music industry associations. The "Material Girl"'s biggest-selling albums are The Immaculate Collection (1990; c. 28.2 million copies sold), True Blue (1986; c. 23 million) and Like a Virgin (1984; c . Released in February 2020, the album revolves around . OK Computer might be Radiohead's best album, and Kid A their most musically innovative, but In Rainbows shook the music industry's very infrastructure. Give your players a song intro and a time limit in which to name the song. Check out: Help!, For decades it was more a rumour than an album, but when the world finally heard Smile (in both Brian Wilsons newly recorded 2004 version and, later, the restored 1967 original), it turned out to be everything it was long promised to be: a visionary song cycle of unique resonance and beauty, plus a joy and humour that the surrounding myth had threatened to forget. 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