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Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify. While the singles charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups, British soul and Indian-based music also enjoyed their greatest level of mainstream success to date, and the rise of World music helped revitalise the popularity of folk music.
Elton John scored his first solo number one in 1990. After more than a decade without a hit, Meat Loaf topped the charts for the first time in 1993. Danish pop band Aqua scored three consecutive number ones with one of the UK's biggest selling singles "Barbie Girl" in 1997, and the follow up's "Doctor Jones" and "Turn Back Time" in 1998 making them one of the most successful bands this decade.
The following is a list of Britpop musicians. While definitions may vary, artists labelled as Britpop were typically guitar-based bands that emerged from the British music scene, were popular in the 1990s, and focused more on melody than other contemporary genres such as grunge.
During the 1990s the chart was based purely on the sales of physical singles, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart. At the beginning of the 1990s, sales of singles and albums in the United Kingdom were compiled on behalf of the British music industry by Gallup. This continued until 1994, when the contract to compile the UK ...
Belgian house music was very popular in 1990 with artists like Technotronic powering the charts with songs like No.2 smash "Get Up ! (Before the Night Is Over)" and "Rockin' Over the Beat", a big summer No.9 hit, and finally a "Megamix" rounded off the year, making number 6 in October.
The most successful artist of the 1990s was British band Simply Red, who topped the UK Albums Chart for 19 weeks with four different albums. [3] Stars , their fourth studio album, sold 3.29 million copies in total, [ 4 ] and was the biggest-selling album of both 1991 and 1992. [ 5 ]
That day, on 11 December, a 900-strong crowd in Islington’s Union Chapel stood unaware that they were witnessing the final public performance by one of the Nineties’ dreamiest of pop groups.
British pop girl groups (1 C, 33 P) British girl groups (4 C) P. British pop rock music groups (6 C, 16 P) British power pop groups (3 C, 2 P) S.