Yet Another Sign of the Apocolypse?

10 Classic Albums that were outsold by Hootie & the Blowfish's Cracked Rear View (in certified units, according to the Recording Industry Association of America and reported in Giant magazine) -- tsk, tsk on this sad state of our society:

* Cracked Rear View -- Hootie & the Blowfish (16 million)

1. Physical Graffiti -- Led Zeppelin (15 million)
2. Appetite for Destruction -- Guns N' Roses (15 million)
3. Born in the U.S.A. -- Bruce Springsteen (15 million)
4. Metallica -- Metallica (14 million)
5. Purple Rain -- Prince & the Revolution (13 million)
6. Ten -- Pearl Jam (12 million)
7. Abbey Road -- The Beatles (12 million)
8. The Joshua Tree -- U2 (10 million)
9. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) -- Van Halen (10 million)
10. Nevermind -- Nirvana (10 million)