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Cher (pictured) topped the list with "Believe" after the song was number one on the Hot 100 chart for four weeks, making her the oldest female artist to top the chart. It also gave her her first number one on the Hot 100 since " Dark Lady " in 1974, giving her the longest gap between number ones at nearly 25 years.
March 21 – The 71st Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with John Madden's Shakespeare in Love winning seven awards out of 13 nominations, including Best Picture. Steven Spielberg wins his second Best Director award for Saving Private Ryan. The telecast garners over 45.5 million ...
Santana and Rob Thomas' "Smooth" was the longest-running single of 1999, topping the chart for 10 consecutive weeks. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplays. There were 15 singles that topped the chart this ...
Clockwise from top-left: the funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; an earthquake in İzmit kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootings in the United States; the year 2000 problem ("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000; the Millennium Dome (currently The O2 Arena) opens in London ...
Latin rock band Santana's Supernatural, was the longest-running number-one album of the year, topping the chart for twelve non-consecutive weeks, [14] three of which were in 1999, making it his first number-one album in 28 years. [4] The album sold five million copies in 1999 and won two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and for Album of the ...
Rank Title Studio(s) Actor(s) Director(s) Gross 1. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace: 20th Century Fox: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Pernilla August and Frank Oz
Thanks to inflation, it takes around $1.30 to buy what $1 bought in 1999. You'll note that some items, such as an iMac, a home mortgage and Hummel figurines are relative bargains compared to their ...
This is a list of singles that charted in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1999. Whitney Houston and Faith Evans each had three top-ten hits in 1999, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.