“Let’s work the problem people. Let’s not make things worse by guessing.”
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.