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| style=”text-align:center;” | ”[[The Lion King (1994 soundtrack)|The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]”
| style=”text-align:center;” | ”[[The Lion King (1994 soundtrack)|The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]”
| style=”text-align:center;” | [[Elton John]] / [[Tim Rice]] / [[Hans Zimmer]] / various artists
| style=”text-align:center;” | [[Elton John]] / [[Tim Rice]] / [[Hans Zimmer]] / various artists
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| style=”text-align:center;” | ”[[The Bodyguard (soundtrack)|The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album]]”
| style=”text-align:center;” | ”[[The Bodyguard (soundtrack)|The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album]]”
| style=”text-align:center;” | [[Whitney Houston]] / various artists
| style=”text-align:center;” | [[Whitney Houston]] / various artists
| style=”text-align:center;” | 1992
| style=”text-align:center;” | 1992
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The Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday; during the 1990s, a total of 71 albums reached number one. The most successful artist of the 1990s was American singer and actress Cher, who topped the Albums Chart for 42 weeks with five different albums. Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture, the soundtrack of the 1997 movie Titanic, composed, orchestrated, and conducted by James Horner, was the biggest-selling album of 1998; it was also the biggest-selling album of the decade. The first number-one album of the 1990s was …But Seriously by English musician Phil Collins – released in 1989, it first reached number one in December, and remained at the top for twelve consecutive weeks. The final number one of the 1990s was the compilation album The Greatest Hits (1999) by Cher.
Artists with the most number ones
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Two artists had at least five number-one albums during the 1990s.
Albums with the most weeks at number one
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The following albums spent at least fifteen weeks at number one during the 1990s.
Artists with the most weeks at number one
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Two artists have spent forty weeks or more at number one on the album chart during the 1990s.
Best-selling albums of the 1990s
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