True and yet slightly misleading

Christmas comes but once a year and now, sadly, so does Top of the Pops. On this year's festive broadcast Fearne Cotton credited Take That's Progress as 'the fastest selling album of the century'. Technically true, this statement, which has been banded arounded a lot recently, is excellent hyperbole. Progress is not the fastest selling album of the last century - it is pipped for that honour by Oasis' much derided Be Here Now. However, it is the fastest selling album of the last ten years and, therefore, our current, young century. Obviously 'fastest selling album of the decade' just does not cut it these days.