Alanis Ties For Highest-Selling Debut Ever

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill (Maverick/Warner Bros.) and Garth Brooks' No Fences (Capitol Nashville) were both certified for U.S. sales of 16 million by the RIAA in July.

Morissette's 1995 bow is now tied with Boston's self-titled 1976 album as the best-selling debut of all time; the Morissette and Brooks albums are locked with the soundtrack for The Bodyguard as the top-selling album of the decade.

No Fences is the biggest country album of all time, according to the RIAA.

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“The Pretender”

Foo Fighters | 2007

This song wasn't part of the planned track listing for 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, and was put together in a day. "It happened after we recorded a lot of stuff," said Dave Grohl. Yet it ended up as the album opener and the lead single. Grohl called it "a stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it." The singer hinted at the lyrics' political overtones: "Everyone's been f---ed over before and I think a lot of people feel f---ed over right now and they're not getting what they were promised."

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