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The Best-Selling UK Albums of 1990

1990 was a year clinging to the past in a decade pretending to move forward. Greatest hits, opera gimmicks, stadium ballads from men with expensive mullets. The top ten was less a chart and more a denial mechanism. Change was coming, but you wouldn't know it from this lot.

The UK didn’t want revolution. It wanted reassurance. And it bought millions of CDs to get it.

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Goodfellas (1990)

Goodfellas matters because it stares capitalism in the face and tells you exactly what it is: organised crime with better marketing. It strips away the glamour and leaves you watching the ugly truth that money corrupts, loyalty is a joke, and the American Dream is a lie built on blood-soaked cash.

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