heres a look at the top selling albums in each of the last 8 years, along with total # of albums sold
*-debuted with over 1 million sold
**-50 cent and Eminems latest album technically were million sellers, but early releases to combat early pirating shortened their week, also in 2000 limp bizkit had a million selling debut, but the album came out too late to make the years overall top10)
1997 651 million total albums sold
1. Spice Girls, Spice, 5.3 million
2. Jewel, Pieces of You, 4.3
3. Puff Daddy & the Family, No Way Out, 3.4
4. Garth Brooks, Sevens, 3.4
5. Hanson, Middle of Nowhere, 3.2 
6. Notorious B.I.G., Life after Death, 3.15 
7. The Wallflowers, Bringing Down the Horse, 3.1 
8. Celine Dion, Falling Into You, 3.0 
9. Various, Space Jam Soundtrack, 2.9 
10. LeAnn Rimes, You Light Up My Life, 2.9

1998 711
1. Titanic soundtrack 9.3
2. Celine Dion Let’s Talk About Love 5.9
3. Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys 5.7
4. Shania Twain  Come on Over 4.8
5. ’N Sync 'N Sync 4.4 
6. City of Angels soundtrack 4.1   
7. Garth Brooks Double Live 3.9  *
8. Will Smith Big Willie Style 3.6
9. Savage Garden Savage Garden 3.2
10. Armageddon soundtrack 3.2

1999 754
1 BACKSTREET BOYS Millenium 9.30 *
2 BRITNEY SPEARS ...Baby One More Time 8.22
3 RICKY MARTIN Ricky Martin 5.90
4 SHANIA TWAIN Come On Over 5.50
5 LIMP BIZKIT Significant Other 4.80
6 SANTANA Supernatural 4.55
7 TLC FanMail 4.15
8 KID ROCK Devil Without a Cause 4.11
9 CHRISTINA AGUILERA Christina Aguilera 3.43
10 DIXIE CHICKS Wide Open Spaces 3.43

2000 785
1. 'N Sync's No Strings Attached, 9.9 *
2. Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, 7.92 *
3. Britney Spears' Oops!...I Did It Again, 7.89 *
4. Creed's Human Clay, 6.6
5. Santana's Supernatural, 5.9
6. The Beatles' 1, 5.068
7. Nelly's Country Grammer, 5.067
8. Backstreet Boys' Black & Blue, 4.3 *
9. Dr. Dre's Dr. Dre 2001, 4
10. Destiny's Child's Writing's on the Wall, 3.8

2001 762
1. Hybrid Theory / Linkin Park 4,8
2. Hotshot / Shaggy 4,5
3. Celebrity / N Sync 4,4 *
4. Day Without Rain / Enya 4,4
5. Break the Cycle / Staind 4,2
6. Songs In A Minor / Alicia Keys 4,1
7. Survivor / Destiny’s Child 3,7
8. Weathered / Creed 3,6
9. Soundtrack / O Brother Where Art Thou? 3,5
10. Vol.6-Now That’s What I Call / Va-Now 3,1

2002 681
1. The Eminem Show, Eminem, 7.6 *
2. Nellyville, Nelly, 4.9
3. Let Go, Avril Lavigne, 4.1
4. Home, Dixie Chicks, 3.7
5. Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile, 3.5
6. Missundaztood, Pink, 3.1
7. Ashanti, Ashanti, 3.099
8. Drive, Alan Jackson, 3.054
9. Up!, Shania Twain, 2.9
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou?, soundtrack, 2.7

2003 656
1. Get Get Rich or Die Tryin', 50 Cent, 6.5
2. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones, 5.1
3. Meteora, Linkin Park, 3.5
4. Fallen, Evanescence, 3.4
5. Speakerboxx/The Love Below, OutKast, 3.1
6. Dangerously in Love, Beyoncé, 2.5
7. Chocolate Factory, R. Kelly, 2.4
8. Metamorphosis, Hilary Duff, 2.4
9. Shock'n Y'All, Toby Keith, 2.3
10. Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay, 2.2

2004 666
1. "Confessions," Usher: 7.9 *
2. "Feels Like Home," Norah Jones: 3.8 *
3. "Encore," Eminem: 3.5
4. "When The Sun Goes Down," Kenny Chesney: 3.0
5. "Here for the Party," Gretchen Wilson: 2.9
6. "Live Like You Were Dying," Tim McGraw: 2.7
7. "Songs About Jane," Maroon 5: 2.7
8. "Fallen," Evanesence: 2.6
9. "Autobiography," Ashlee Simpson (news): 2.5
10. "Now 16: Now That's What I Call Music!": 2.5

People sure were wasting their money in 99' buy those albulms, at least most of them.

i'm proud to say i own none of those records.

I only own 3 of those.  Santana, Jewel and Evanescence.  Everything else can be thrown away as far as Im concerned.

I own both of the albums that the Spice Girls put out.