3. Hootie & The Blowfish – Cracked Rear View | 16 Million Copies
Taking the number 3 position in the Top 10 Best Selling Debut Albums in US History is yet another great album!
“Cracked Rear View” is the most successful album from Hootie & The Blowfish.
Released on July 5, 1994 by Atlantic Records, the album was a major-label debut album by Hootie & the Blowfish, and it was the highest-selling album of 1995, with 10.5 million shipments that year alone!
But by March 31, 1999, it reached an amazing number of 16 million copies to be sold.
Over the course of 1995, “Cracked Rear View” reached number one on the Billboard 200 five times!
