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See if you know the answers to these easy and hard music trivia questions, spanning different decades (80s and 90s) and genres (pop and rock).
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.
The ’90s were the twilight of music’s analog era. It was a time of unparalleled musical diversity and creativity, buoyed by consumers who saved their allowances and paychecks to buy CDs and ...
Songs stayed on the chart for a long time and fewer songs made it on the chart. Ten songs had runs at number one of ten weeks or longer during the 1990s, with the longest coming from "Touch, Peel and Stand" by Days of the New at 16 weeks. ("Higher" by Creed spent 17 weeks at the top of the chart but its last couple of weeks ran into the year 2000).
Reflecting on the decade's musical developments in Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s (2000), music critic Robert Christgau said the 1990s were "richly chaotic, unknowable", and "highly subject to vagaries of individual preference", yet "conducive to some manageable degree of general comprehension and enjoyment by any rock and roller."
The West Coast hip-hop lifestyle of the ‘90s will live on forever in this—one of the most iconic songs and music videos of the genre, courtesy of the dream team that was Tupac and Dre. Listen ...
"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.
The first number-one song on both of these charts was "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men. [1] 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]