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Billboard magazine ranked the group as one of the greatest musical trios of all time. According to the RIAA, TLC are the biggest selling female group of all time in the United States with over 22 million albums sold. They have had four #1 singles, including "Creep", "Waterfalls", "No Scrubs", and "Unpretty", and have won four Grammy Awards. According to the RIAA and Billboard, TLC has sold more than 50 million records world wide, making them one of The Biggest Selling Female Groups Of All Time, the group was inducted into the All Time Hot 100 Artist Hall of Fame by Billboard, at 56th place.Their hit single "Waterfalls" is known as the 8th best song of the 90s, a list created by VH1. For 10 years TLC reigned as the "Queens of Pop".
Their second album, CrazySexyCool (1994), is the only album by a female group to be awarded diamond certification by the RIAA, for selling over 11 million copies in the United States alone.
In early 2002, just before the release of TLC's fourth album, 3D, Lopes was killed in a car accident in Honduras. Watkins and Thomas promoted 3D as a duo, and in 2005, hosted a reality television show, R U the Girl, with a grand prize of a chance to record a song and perform once in concert with the surviving group members, both of whom have released solo material and continued to collaborate occasionally.
In October 2009, TLC announced plans to record new material to be released "sometime soon".
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