#1 Album on January 31, 1970

Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin II was the band's first #1 album, and is considered quintessential in rock music and a forerunner of heavy metal. The record features several Zeppelin classics: "Whole Lotta Love", "Heartbreaker", Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" and "Ramble On". Led Zeppelin's first U.S. appearance took place on December 26, 1968 at Denver's Auditorium Arena.
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#1 Album on January 30, 1989

Don't Be Cruel
Bobby Brown

Former New Edition member Bobby Brown went to #1 with his second album release. Don't Be Cruel features five top ten hits, including the #1 song "My Prerogative". Bobby was a pioneer of New Jack Swing, a hybrid music style typified with soulful and harmonizing vocals sung over urban and street-beat rhythms. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston were married for fourteen years.
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#1 Album on January 29, 1962

Stereo 35/MM
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade

Enoch Light was a pioneer of stereo and quadraphonic recording whose music career spanned fifty years. Stereo 35/MM was named in reference to Light's use of 35mm film versus magnetic tape to record the album. Stereo 35/MM was #1 for three weeks. According to Light, the album "brings you music with an intense true to life impact that is unbelievably realistic"
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#1 Album on January 28, 1986

The Broadway Album
Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand returned to her theater roots with twelve Broadway show tunes that unexpectedly reached #1 in January 1986. The album features tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Stephen Sondheim. The Broadway Album features the singles "Send in the Clowns" and "Somewhere". The album earned two Grammy Awards.
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#1 Album on January 27, 1994

Music Box
Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey's fourth album was a global #1 hit. The album features four singles, including the #1 songs "Dreamlover" and "Hero". According to Billboard magazine, Carey was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the U.S. She has recorded eighteen #1 singles, the most for a solo artist. Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York.
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#1 Album on January 26, 2003

Come Away with Me
Norah Jones

Nora Jones' debut album won five Grammy Awards in 2003, including Album of the Year. The single "Don't Know Why" won Song of the Year. The album features mellow, acoustic pop with jazz and soul and was the sleeper of 2003. Nora Jones was born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar in Brooklyn, New York. Her father is famed sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.
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#1 Album on January 25, 1996

Waiting to Exhale
Soundtrack

The box office hit movie starred Whitney Houston and Angela Basset. The film details the relationships of four African-American women living in Arizona. The #1 soundtrack, written and produced by Babyface, features songs by Whitney Houston, Brandy, Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle and Mary J. Blige. Seven of the album's sixteen singles made the charts.
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