We had Salt N' Pepa (although starting in the 80's) TLC, Xscape, SWV, En Vogue, Spice Girls and Destiny's Child all in one decade! Honorable mention going to 702...you have to see them live to know what Im talking about. Each of those groups were extremely important in more ways then just making music that we loved or hated.
The biggest and most important groups (in my opinion of course...) to come out of the 90's were: TLC, Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. I know what you're saying..."Spice Girls!!??" Yes...them. Don't let the media fool you (or the Knowles) the biggest selling female group of all time is the Spice Girls. With just 3 CD's they sold 45 million worldwide. That does not include 30 million singles sold. Put all that together and they have sold 75 million CD's. Plus they sold 7 million CD's worldwide in the first two week release of Spice World. They also wrote all of their music too...which is why they are all still filthy fucking rich.
TLC has sold 45 million CD's worldwide. With the release of Crazy Sexy Cool, they are one of the very few artist to have an album go diamond (10 million sold). I beleive that if Left Eye didn't pass away so soon that they would have sold way more. To support that I have to add that with only 2 videos released from Fan Mail (the last album they had with her alive), with their 3rd album, they sold 6 million CD's in the U.S. alone. I don't have the worldwide figures for that CD. TLC has released 4 Albums.
Destiny's Child sold 47 million CD's worldwide (although it might be advertised as 63 because Sony and the Knowels keeps adding Beyonce, Kelly and Michelle's solo CD's to the groups numbers) with 4 Albums and 1 Xmas album. This group spawned one of the biggest stars we have out right now: Beyonce. Yes they sold a lot as well and yes they made some good music and yes I own all of their CD's (besides the number ones....which only has like 4 real numer one songs) but to ME they are the group that reminded us that all it can take is ONE person and a bit of scandal to make a group blow up.
Out of those 3 groups I favor TLC the most. TLC had a little bit of everything in their group. 3 very different girls with completely different talents and sound that blended so well toghether and even pushed for social awareness and change. All 3 of these groups have one major thing in common. The loss of a member (3 for Destiny's Child). First off was the Spice Girls Gerri Haliwell AKA Ginger Spice. Honestly...even though they were still popular and still selling millions...they were not the same. This was evident when they came out with "Forever." It flopped in comparison to their first 2 CD's and the group really seemed to be missing something in their videos for that CD.
Second was Destiny's Child. They in total booted 3 members from the group and released 2 more succesful CD's with a new line up. I thought that was scary. The biggest selling group of all time had 5 members and losing ONE of them hurt them. How could a group with 4 members lose 3 members and gain one and only get better? Thats not a group to me...thats a business. A family business.
Third was TLC. This is the saddest situation of them all because one of the members actually passed away. When Left Eye died we all knew that TLC was done for. Why? Because it was a real group that depended on ALL of the members talents to exist. Sadly enough we were right. Their 4th CD did poorly in comparison to their previous albums and despite their reality show to locate a girl to help them release a new single and do a last(?) performance as a group, it was not enough...and it will never be enough.
We are not gonna have another 90's girl group era for a long time.
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