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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 N...

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...

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 s...

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 caug...

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 P...

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 gl...

Nicky, Sian and Paul discuss Bon Jovi’s hit record ‘Slippery When Wet’, discussing how the band managed to straddle between hair metal and h...

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 F...

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...

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...

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...

Was the mighty Scorps' Wind of Change part of a CIA plot to bring down communism? And more importantly, can you whistle it?

Was You Could Be Mine the moment GN'R sold out? (With apologies for the shonky audio on earlier version.)

Does Bryan Adams' six-minute syrupfest have any redeeming features?

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...

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...

How a falling out between Phil Lynott and guitarist Brian Robertson led to 2.18 mins of killer riffs, blazing solos and clever lyrics.

Should revelations about Steven Tyler's private life change how we feel about Walk This Way?

Nicky Horne and guests tackle the 6th best-selling original album of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Includes debates about Peter Green's...

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-burs...

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 re...

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...

The 20 Million Club returns with Nicky Horne, Siân Llewellyn and Scott Rowley joined for the first episode by Paul Elliott, the first UK jou...

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 great...

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...

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 ti...

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...

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? Th...

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, sellin...

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 comp...

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,...