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With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles. [1] [2] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco-related sections, while some rap ...
Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s. Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which at the time was a record. [4] [5] Lisa Loeb became the first artist to score a #1 hit before signing to any record label, with "Stay (I Missed You)".
Wilson Phillips (pictured) had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "Hold On" at number one and "Release Me" at number 19. Janet Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1990. Phil Collins (pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1990 ...
Pages in category "Lists of number-one rap songs in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
As one of the first hip-hop hits with a melodic chorus, “It Takes Two” foreshadowed the formula of rapped verses and R&B hooks that would rule urban radio in the ‘90s and beyond. 12 ...
The mid-1990s also witnessed a drastic difference between what reached the top of the Mainstream Top 40 chart and the Hot 100, when songs started being promoted to radio and receiving significant airplay without the release of a commercially available single, a requirement for a song to reach the Hot 100.
"All My Life" by K-Ci & JoJo (1997) "Close to me you're like my father, Close to me you're like my sister, Close to me you're like my brother" Well, OK—that seems weird, but I'm still down with it.
East Coast Hip Hop 6 Friday: Various Artists 123,000 1 West Coast Hip Hop 7 Cocktails: Too Short: 101,000 6 West Coast Hip Hop 8 On Top of the World: 8Ball & MJG: 83,000 8 Southern Hip Hop 9 Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version: Ol' Dirty Bastard: 81,000 7 East Coast Hip Hop 10 Mr. Smith: LL Cool J: 80,000 20 East Coast Hip Hop