26 years ago today, Limp Bizkit released Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.
It sold 1,054,511 copies in its first week, 400,000 of them on day one, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. No rock album had ever opened bigger in the SoundScan era. "Rollin'," "My Way" and "My Generation" owned the radio, and the record went on to 6x Platinum.
The year nu metal took over the world.