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"Among rock &amp;amp; roll&amp;apos;s hottest record sellers in 1992 were Pearl Jam&amp;apos;s Ten (3.6 million), Nirvana&amp;apos;s Nevermind (2.8 million) and the Red Hot Chili Peppers&amp;apos; Blood Sugar Sex Magik (2.5 million), according to SoundScan, the company whose computerized sales-data system is used to put together Billboard&amp;apos;s weekly Top 200 chart. The year&amp;apos;s biggest winner, however, was cowpoke Garth Brooks, all of whose five albums charted in &amp;apos;92, selling a total of 12 million units. Overall, recorded-music sales rose by 3.1 percent last year as compared with 1991. According to SoundScan&amp;apos;s CEO, Mike Fine, sales at retail outlets totaled 675 million units (Fine believes that more than 125 million were also sold through record clubs, although that information won&amp;apos;t be available till later in the year). Although the industry appears to be on the rebound, sales for &amp;apos;92 did not exceed 1990&amp;apos;s record-business high-water mark; that year 866 million units, including record-club sales, were sold.\r\nThis story is from the February 18th, 1993 issue of Rolling Stone.\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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