The 20 Million Club
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The 20 Million Club
From the makers of Classic Rock magazine, The 20 Million Club looks at the biggest-selling albums of all time and asks: are they REALLY all that good? Hosted by British broadcasting legend Nicky Horne with guests from the Classic Rock team, prepare for the best-selling albums of all time to be re-ev...
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Nirvana: Nevermind
The record company thought it might sell 50,000 copies if they were lucky. It went on to sell 30m. What was it about the darkness and anger of Nevermi...
20 Minute Club: Dave Lee Roth, Bruce Hornsby & It Bites
The team look at some of the other songs in the charts the week of August 18, 1986: Dave Lee Roth's Yankee Rose, Bruce Hornsby & The Range smash The W...
20 Minute Club: Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel's chart-busting Sledgehammer was inescapable in August of 1986. But what was it about the ex-Genesis man's single that so caught the ima...
20 Minute Club: Movie Music, August '86
In August 1996, the charts in the US and the UK were full of songs from the movies: Top Gun, The Breakfast Club, The Karate Kid, Pretty In Pink. But w...
Repost: Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell
In memory of Meat Loaf, we've reposted this celebration of his classic game-changing album, Bat Out Of Hell. Big, daft and loveable, with gloriously h...
Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet
Nicky, Sian and Paul discuss Bon Jovi’s hit record ‘Slippery When Wet’, discussing how the band managed to straddle between hair metal and heavy rock,...
20 Minute Club – Sex Pistols: Anarchy In The UK
In which Scott goes on an impassioned but barely comprehensible rant about why certain punk bands mean so much more than, say, More Than A Feeling can...
20 Minute Club – Boston: More Than A Feeling
In the charts, December '76, More Than A Feeling practically invented AOR and was an unlikely influence on grunge. But is it just a nice pop song?
20 Minute Club – Rod Stewart: Tonight's The Night
Tonight's The Night was a US no.1 the week of Hotel California's release. Unbelievably, it's also the 19th biggest US single. We talk dodgy videos, th...
Eagles: Hotel California
How do you follow the best-selling album of the 20th century? By releasing the 5th best-selling original album, that's how. But the success of Hotel C...
20 Million Club - Scorpions: Wind Of Change
Was the mighty Scorps' Wind of Change part of a CIA plot to bring down communism? And more importantly, can you whistle it?
20 Minute Club – Guns N' Roses: You Could Be Mine (redux)
Was You Could Be Mine the moment GN'R sold out? (With apologies for the shonky audio on earlier version.)
20 Minute Club – Bryan Adams: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Does Bryan Adams' six-minute syrupfest have any redeeming features?
Metallica: Metallica (aka The Black Album)
Nicky Horne, Siân Llewellyn and Paul Elliot take a deep dive into Metallica's 'Metallica' - or the Black Album as it's commonly known. They look at th...
20 Million Club: The Hits of February 1977
We couldn't choose just one more song from Feb 1977, so instead we delve into hits by Bob Seger, Manfred Mann, Status Quo, the Steve Miller Band and K...
20 Minute Club – Thin Lizzy: Don't Believe A Word
How a falling out between Phil Lynott and guitarist Brian Robertson led to 2.18 mins of killer riffs, blazing solos and clever lyrics.
20 Minute Club – Aerosmith: Walk This Way
Should revelations about Steven Tyler's private life change how we feel about Walk This Way?
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Nicky Horne and guests tackle the 6th best-selling original album of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Includes debates about Peter Green's Mac Vs th...
20 Minute Club - Heart: Alone
The 20 Minute Club looks at another single that was in the charts the same week as Appetite For Destruction was released: Heart's piano-bursting, lung...
20 Minute Club – Whitesnake: Here I Go Again
The 20 Minute Club – our new companion mini-pod to The 20 Million Club – continues to cover singles from July 1987, the same month as the release of A...
20 Minute Club – Genesis: In Too Deep
Introducing The 20 Minute Club, a companion minipod to The 20 Million Club, covering singles that were in the charts at the same time as our featured...
Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction
The 20 Million Club returns with Nicky Horne, Siân Llewellyn and Scott Rowley joined for the first episode by Paul Elliott, the first UK journalist to...
Coming Soon - The 20 Million Club Season Two
Coming soon - The 20 Million Club Season 2. New albums and new guests but the same topic. Why are these albums regarded as some of the greatest of all...
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell
Season 1 of The 20 Million Club ends with a look at the world's 3rd best-selling album – and possibly the most ridiculous. "On a hot summer night, wou...
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon
It's lyrically bleak, musically bonkers and It only has five real songs on it. So how did TDSOTM become the 4th best-selling album of all time? This m...
Prince: Purple Rain
Prince: Purple Rain
Is Prince's Purple Rain an all-time classic or an over-hyped and over-produced slice of 80s bunk? The team debate purple ban...
Queen: Queen's Greatest Hits
Queen's Greatest Hits is the UK’s all-time best-selling album. But are greatest hits albums even proper albums, or is it a massive cheat? The team dis...
Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette's 3rd album earned her 7 Grammy nominations, 4 wins, and went on to become the 13th best-selling album of all-time, selling more cop...
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin's 4th album was released in November 1971. Housed in an anonymous sleeve, with no band name and no album title, the record company feared...
AC/DC: Back In Black
AC/DC’s 7th album was released on 25 July 1980. Their first with singer Brian Johnson, it came out just months after the death of Bon Scott, AC/DC’s p...