The most divisive debate Canada has ever faced.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Canadian-born '90s kid must be in possession of at least one Big Shiny Tunes album.
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With the most popular album being Big Shiny Tunes 2, which is the third best-selling Canadian album of all time.
But all of Big Shiny Tunes albums performed really well, with more than 5 million total albums sold.
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Before the age of iTunes and Spotify, the annual Big Shiny Tunes albums were the best way to boost your music collection with the year's best music.
No need to spend hundreds of dollars buying a bunch of different albums when you could get all the songs you wanted on one convenient compilation! (This is how we used to live, kids.)
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The series was so successful that it spawned 17 (!) albums between 1996 and 2009.
We got all the way up to Big Shiny Tunes 14, plus Big Shiny '80s, Big Shiny '90s, and Big Shiny '90s Vol. 2.
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