#1 Album on December 21, 1996

Tragic Kingdom
No Doubt

No Doubt hit #1 in December 1996 completing the album's recording and promotion journey that began in March 1993. Tragic Kingdom yielded several singles, including "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", "Excuse Me Mr.", "Sunday Morning" and "Don't Speak". No Doubt is from Anaheim, California.

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#1 Album on December 20, 1971

There's a Riot Goin' On
Sly and the Family Stone

Sly Stone produced most of the tracks on Riot, which features the single "Family Affair", the fourth and final #1 hit for the band. The San Francisco group was formed in 1966 when Sly & the Stoners merged with Freddie & the Stone Souls.

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#1 Album on December 19, 2000

Black & Blue
Backstreet Boys

Black & Blue was a huge international success that produced three top ten hits: "Shape of My Heart", "The Call" and "More Than That." The teen band was created by Lou Pearlman and first performed on July 8, 1993 for 3,000 teenagers at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

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#1 Album on December 18, 1980

Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits
Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hits is the best selling county music compilation release of all time, selling over 22 million copies. This album was the first of many greatest hits collections released by Rogers. Kenny's music career began in the mid-1950s when he recorded with the doo-wop group The Scholars.

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#1 Album on December 17, 1993

Doggystyle
Snoop Doggy Dogg

The hip hop classic Doggystyle produced three singles: "Who Am I (What's My Name)?", "Gin and Juice" and "Doggy Dogg World". Snoop Dog was born Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. in 1972 and raised in Long Beach, California. He was associated with the Peanuts character as a child by his mother.
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#1 Album on December 16, 1995

Anthology 1
Beatles

Anthology 1 is part 1 of 3 compilation volumes released for The Beatles in the mid 1990s. The album's sixty tracks include material from 1958-1964. The album features interviews, live recordings, original mono recordings, as well as recordings from when the band was known as The Quarrymen.

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#1 Album on December 15, 1991

Dangerous
Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's phenomenal hit Dangerous spent four weeks at #1 and 117 weeks on the charts. The album took over sixteen months to record. Nine of the album's fourteen tracks hit the charts from October 1991 to November 1993. Jackson would not release another album until Invincible in 2001.
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