From a commercial standpoint, the numbers are staggering. The Better Life quickly became the band’s best-selling album, moving over 5.6 million copies in the United States alone and exceeding six million worldwide. It finished 2000 as the 11th best-selling album of the year and has since achieved 7x Platinum certification in the U.S..
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