Coming up on today's show, we review Lauryn Hill's classic album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. It is the debut and only album by Lauryn Hill and was released on August 25, 1998. The album touches upon her pregnancy and the turmoil within her former group the Fugees, along with themes of love and God.
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 422,624 copies in its first week, breaking a record for first-week sales by a female artist in the process. At the 41st Annual Grammy Awards, she earned a whopping 10 nominations, winning five awards and making Lauryn Hill the first woman to receive that many nominations and awards in one night.
Since its release, the album has been ranked in numerous best-album lists, with a number of critics regarding it as one of the greatest albums of the 1990s, as well as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2021, the album was certified Diamond for estimated sales of 10 million copies in the US, becoming the first female hip hop album to do so while the album has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and making it the best-selling neo soul album of all time.
