Barenaked Ladies released “If I Had $1,000,000” in 1992. Times have changed. $1 million doesn’t go as far as it used to, so we’ve adjusted the song for inflation.
“If I Had $1,000,000” was released on the album “Gordon” and as a single in 1992, it was written performed before that, but we’ll stick with the major release date.
Barenaked Ladies were able to buy a lot of stuff with that money in 1992, including:
- a reliant automobile
- a house
- furniture for the house
- a tree fort
- a fake fur coat
- an exotic pet, like a llama or an emu
- and more
Barenaked Ladies never specified in the song if they had any money leftover after their $1 million shopping spree, hopefully they did and invested it wisely. If not, it would take $2,144,262.30 to buy the same things today.
Yes, the band is from Canada, but we used American dollars to reach the 114 percent inflation rate.
Here’s Barenaked Ladies performing the song in 2007 at DTE Energy Music Theatre. This is after the venue was known as Pine Knob and before it became known as Pine Knob again. They’ll be at Pine Knob this year on July 22 with Five for Fighting and Del Amitri.
We’ve got more where that came from…