Lauryn Hill Addresses Why She Never Released Another Studio Album After Miseducation
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Chris DeVille
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Summary
Lauryn Hill responded to an Instagram post discussing why she never released a follow-up studio album after her massively successful 1998 debut, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. The article recounts the album's historic commercial success—it debuted at #1 with 422,624 first-week sales, breaking records—and explores the ongoing discourse around Hill's decision to not release another studio album despite her early career dominance with the Fugees and her solo work.
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· 3 pulledMiseducation was such a massive commercial and critical success that even those of us who lived through it might forget the full extent of it.
The album debuted at #1, the first debut LP by a solo female artist to start out atop the chart.
Its first-week sales totaled 422,624, breaking the first-week sales record for...
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