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Quiet storm radio programs thrived in the 1980s, with many stations across the US carrying a quiet storm program at night, and a few stations broadcasting in the format all day long. [3] The field adapted in the 1990s as new listeners embraced neo-soul experimentation, hip hop samples and beats, as well as more explicit themes.
Pity the Best-of List and the poor fool (Hi! Nice to meet you!) who agrees to make one. Especially one about the ’90s—one of popular music’s most prolific and diverse decades. The ’90s ...
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 ...
Mariah Carey earned four number-one singles, including the best-performing single of the decade "We Belong Together", which spent 14 weeks atop the Hot 100. Alicia Keys scored four number-one entries, totaling 22 weeks atop the chart. 50 Cent scored four number ones, including 2003's best-performing single, "In da Club".
A famous album of the movement was the multi-platinum 1995 album Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette as well as Sheryl Crow's 1993 album Tuesday Night Music Club and her 1996 eponymous album. [20] Canadian artist Tom Cochrane got hit "Life is a Highway", [21] Marc Cohn had "Walking in Memphis", and 4 Non Blondes released hit "What's Up".
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.
Songs that reached number one on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart during the 2000s, listed in chronological order. The top song of 2000, " Smooth ", spent a record 25 weeks at number one on the chart beginning in October 1999 and continuing through April 2000.
Starting with the best classic Thanksgiving song, "Alice's Restaurant". Guthrie pulls storytelling and song together into an 18-plus minute bit about littering on Thanksgiving day.