#1 Album on November 29, 1986

Live/1975-85
Bruce Springsteen

Live gave us forty tracks recorded from a series of E Street band concerts from 1975 to 1985. Two singles were released from the album: "War" and "Fire". Many consider the band's Darkness on the Edge of Town tour of the United States in 1978 to be its benchmark of live performances.

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#1 Album on November 28, 1970

Abraxas
Santana

Abraxas is considered by many to be Santana's greatest. The release gave us the album rock classics "Black Magic Woman", "Oye Como Va" and "Hope You're Feeling Better". Santana was formed in 1966 in San Francisco. The group was one of the surprise acts at the Woodstock Music festival when they played before their first album was released.


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#1 Album on November 27, 1965

Whipped Cream and Other Delights
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

Whipped Cream features covers of popular songs including a "strip-tease" version of "Love Potion No. 9". The album sold over 6 million copies and its cover is considered a classic pop culture icon. Herb Alpert was a member of the USC Trojan Marching Band. He is also the "A" of A&M Records, who he founded with Jerry Moss in 1962.
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#1 Album on November 26, 1994

Hell Freezes Over
Eagles

The Eagles reunion album produced four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live for an MTV concert special. The album name is in reference to band member Don Henley who said after the band's breakup in 1980 that the band would play together again "when Hell freezes over." The album stayed #1 for two weeks in autumn 1994.

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#1 Album on November 25, 1989

Girl You Know It's True
Milli Vanilli

Girl You Know It's True produced five hits, including the #1 songs "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You," "Baby Don't Forget My Number" and "Blame It on the Rain". In November 1990, it was revealed that the group did not actually sing on any of the songs on the album, which prompted law suits and consumer backlash against the group.
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#1 Album on November 24, 1998

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Alanis Morissette

Canadian singer Alanis Morissette has earned twelve Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards. Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie was Morissette's highly anticipated follow up to her sensational 1995 album Jagged Little Pill. The #1 album spawned the charted hits "Thank U" and "So Pure".
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#1 Album on November 23, 2002

8 Mile
Soundtrack

The self-titled movie soundtrack featuring Eminem reached #1 in November 2002. The film tells the story of Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith, a white rapper living in Detroit vying for respect among his black peers. The film earned an Oscar for Best Original Song for Eminem's "Lose Yourself".
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#1 Album on November 22, 1997

Harlem World
Mase

Mase's solo debut Harlem World reached #1 in late November 1997. The album gave us the hits "What You Want", "Lookin' at Me" and "Feel So Good", which samples Kool and the Gang and Miami Sound Machine. Born Mason Betha and raised in Harlem, Mase retired from music in 1999 and later received an honorary degree from St. Paul's Bible Institute in New York.

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#1 Album on November 21, 1981

4
Foreigner

Foreigner 4 gave us several Foreigner staples including "Urgent", "Waiting for a Girl Like You," and "Juke Box Hero". Music veterans Junior Walker and Thomas Dolby played on this album. The band formed in 1976 and became a huge album rock and concert act during the late 70s and 1980s.
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#1 Album on November 20, 2006

Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana

Disney TV’s Hannah Montana conceals her famous pop singer identity while living as an average teenage schoolgirl. Miley Cyrus plays Hannah and sang most of the songs on the #1 album soundtrack for the show. Miley’s father Billy Ray Cyrus also appears on the show and is best known for hit single "Achy Breaky Heart."
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#1 Album on November 19, 1972

Catch Bull at Four
Cat Stevens

British singer Cat Stevens was born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948 and later converted to Islam taking the name Yusuf Islam. Catch Bull at Four was Stevens' most successful U.S. album and produced the hit single "Sitting". Yusuf wrote and produced a children's album in 2000 titled A Is for Allah.
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#1 Album on November 18, 1978

52nd Street
Billy Joel

52nd Street earned Billy Joel a Grammy for Album of the Year in 1979. The album produced the Billy Joel classics "My Life", "Big Shot" and "Honesty". Raised in Hicksville, Long Island, New York, Billy boxed on the Golden Gloves circuit for a short time before he abandoned the sport for his music career.
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#1 Album on November 17, 1965

The Sound of Music
Soundtrack

The Sound of Music earned Best Picture in 1965 and is one of the most popular musicals ever produced. The film starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and features the title song as well as "Edelweiss" and "My Favorite Things". The album has sold over 11 million copies worldwide.

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#1 Album on November 16, 1968

Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix Experience

Electric Ladyland was Jimi Hendrix's only #1 album. The double album produced several singles, including the rock staples "Crosstown Traffic" and "All Along the Watchtower". Hendrix pioneered guitar feedback and frenzied stage techniques. Jimi Hendrix died on September 18, 1970 in London.
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#1 Album on November 15, 1971

Santana III
Santana

III features "Everybody's Everything" and "No One To Depend On". Santana III was the last Santana album to hit #1 on the charts until their comeback release of Supernatural in 1999. Santana guitarist Neal Schon and keyboard player Gregg Rolie left the band in 1972 to form the rock group Journey.
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#1 Album on November 14, 1988

Rattle and Hum
U2

Rattle and Hum is the soundtrack of the self-titled rockumentary film and features live and studio recordings captured when U2 toured America in 1987. The band produced covers of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, and released the U2 staples "Desire" and "All I Want Is You".
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#1 Album on November 13, 1982

Business as Usual
Men at Work

The Australian-based rock group won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Business as Usual gave us the hits "Who Can It Be Now?", "Be Good Johnny" and the Ausie-partriot "Down Under". Men at Work produced three highly successful albums through the 1980s and disbanded in 1986.
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#1 Album on November 12, 1966

The Monkees
Monkees

Inspired by the Beatles Hard Days Night film, The Monkees pop-rock band was created for the self-titled TV series which aired from 1965 to 1968. The show's success spawned four number one albums within one year. The Monkees reunion tour was the largest grossing tour of 1986.
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#1 Album on November 11, 1973

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John

Elton John reached his peak of success with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The double album produced "Candle in the Wind", "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
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#1 Album on November 10, 1990

To the Extreme
Vanilla Ice

The single "Ice Ice Baby" is well known for its sampling of Queen's 1981 hit "Under Pressure". Wild Cherry's 1976 hit "Play That Funky Music" was also covered on the album. Robert Matthew Van Winkle was raised in a Dallas and earned his nickname "Vanilla Ice" as a young cardboard break-dancer.
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#1 Album on November 9, 1975

Rock of the Westies
Elton John

Elton John's tenth studio album, along with the single "Island Girl", reached #1 in late autumn 1975. Elton was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947 and started playing the piano at the age of three. Elton met his career song-writing partner Bernie Taupin when both answered the same audition ad in 1967.
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#1 Album on November 8, 1980

The River
Bruce Springsteen

The E Street Band's first #1 hit "Hungry Heart" was part of this twenty track double album released to eager fans in 1980. The River gave us several Springsteen classics: "Cadillac Ranch", "Out in the Street" and "Two Hearts". Bruce originally wrote the song "Hungry Heart" for punk rockers The Ramones to record.
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#1 Album on November 7, 2003

Measure of a Man
Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken's highly successful debut album was released five months after the he placed second on the TV performance contest American Idol. Clay Aiken was born Clayton Holmes Grissom in Raleigh, North Carolina. Aiken completed a bachelor's degree in special education while on tour in December 2003.
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#1 Album on November 6, 1993

Vs.
Pearl Jam

Seattle grunge band Perl Jam reached #1 with the highly-anticipated album Vs. The album gave us "Go", "Daughter", "Animal", and "Dissident". Front man Eddie Vedder moved from San Diego to Seattle to join the group who played its first show under the name Mookie Blaylock in October 1990.
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#1 Album on November 5, 1986

Third Stage
Boston

Third Stage and the single "Amanda" both hit #1 for Boston in autumn 1986. "Amanda" would be the band's only #1 single. The album was recorded over a six-year period. All the original Boston band members left the group by 1989 leaving Tom Scholz as the last remaining original member.
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#1 Album on November 4, 1970

Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin

Zeppelin's third studio album gave us the classics "Immigrant Song" and "Since I've Been Loving You". Jimmy Page and Robert Plant composed the album in a remote cottage in Wales. III marked a musical transition for the band from primarily hard-edged rock to richer blends of acoustic and rock.
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#1 Album on November 3, 1979

The Long Run
Eagles

The Long Run was the last #1 album of the 1970s decade. The song "Heartache Tonight" was the band's last #1 hit. Guitarist Joe Walsh's "In the City" was recorded for the cult film The Warriors. Personal and artistic differences led the band to disband in 1980. The Eagles reunited fourteen years later.
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#1 Album on November 2, 1985

Miami Vice
Soundtrack

The Miami Vice TV series featured police detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs and their continued battle against the illicit drug, prostitution, and crime underworld of Miami. There were three soundtrack albums released during the show's run from 1984–1989.
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#1 Album on November 1, 1969

Abbey Road
Beatles

Abbey Road was the last complete album recorded and released by the Beatles before their break-up. The recording of the song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" for the album was the last time all four Beatles were together in the same studio.
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