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As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
Aside from rap, reggae, contemporary R&B, and urban music in general remained popular throughout the decade; urban music in the late-1980s and 1990s often blended with styles such as soul, funk, and jazz, resulting in fusion genres such as new jack swing, neo-soul, hip hop soul, and g-funk which were popular. Similarly to the 1980s, rock music ...
Mainstream Top 40 is compiled from airplay on radio stations which play a wide variety of music, not just "pure pop", which Billboard defines as "melodic, often synth-driven, uptempo fare". [2] During the 1990s, mainstream top 40 went from R&B dominating the airwaves (and thus the charts) in the early 1990s to rock and alternative music ...
MTV, VH1—you couldn’t turn on the tube without seeing the critically-acclaimed music video for this chart-topping hit from early ‘90s alt-rock giants R.E.M. Call it campus rock, if you will ...
The progressive rock of Rush's "Show Don't Tell", the final song to top the chart in the 1980s, had evolved into the post-grunge sound of Creed's "Higher" by the end of the 1990s. Despite the evolution, Van Halen still managed to top the chart more than any other artist during the 1990s with eight number-one songs.
90 "This One's for the Children" New Kids on the Block: 91 "What It Takes" Aerosmith: 92 "Forever" Kiss: 93 "Jerk Out" The Time: 94 "Just a Friend" Biz Markie: 95 "Whole Wide World" A'Me Lorain: 96 "Without You" Mötley Crüe: 97 "Swing the Mood" Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers: 98 "Thieves in the Temple" Prince: 99 "Mentirosa" Mellow Man Ace ...
C+C Music Factory: 52 "I Touch Myself" Divinyls: 53 "Tom's Diner" DNA featuring Suzanne Vega: 54 "Iesha" Another Bad Creation: 55 "Something to Talk About" Bonnie Raitt: 56 "After the Rain" Nelson: 57 "Play That Funky Music" Vanilla Ice: 58 "Temptation" Corina: 59 "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" Bryan Adams: 60 "I Can't Wait Another Minute ...
This is a list of 1990s music albums that multiple music journalists, magazines, and professional music review websites have considered to be among the best of the 1990s and of all time, separated into the years of each album's release. The albums listed here are included on at least four separate "best/greatest of the 1990s/all time" lists ...