The Fugees' second album, "The Score" (1996), peaked at number one on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 and stayed in the top ten of that chart for over half a year. It sold about seven million copies in the United States and more than 22 million copies worldwide. In the 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, "The Score" came second in the list of best albums and three of its tracks placed within the top twenty best singles. It won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, and was later included on "Rolling Stone" list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. "The Score" garnered praise for being a strong alternative to the gangsta idiom, and Hill stated, "We're trying to do something positive with the music because it seems like only the negative is rising to the top these days. It only takes a drop of purity to clean a cesspool."