Relive your youth (or cringe at it). These are the top-selling singles of the ’90s, from Elton John’s timeless ballad to Cher’s comeback anthem.

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.