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This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 1989. The Cactus Album by 3rd Bass is considered a critically acclaimed record that earned an RIAA gold certification.
Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles.
They tied with New Kids on the Block for the most songs on the chart. Three songs by Madonna (pictured) from her album Like a Prayer, including its title track, appeared on the chart. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1989. [1] [2]
1989: 11 (U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Singles) - 86 (U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks) "Blow at High Dough" The Tragically Hip: April 1989: 1 (Canada Content) - 48 (Canada) "Blues from a Gun" The Jesus and Mary Chain: September 1989: 1 (US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks) - 32 (UK Singles Chart) "Can't Be Sure" The Sundays: May 1989
This page indexes the individual year in hip hop music pages. 1970s. 1979 in hip hop music; 1980s. 1980 in hip hop music; ... 1989 in hip hop music; 1990s. 1990 in ...
The #1 song of 1989, "Look Away" by Chicago, despite reaching #1 in late 1988, never reached #1 in 1989. An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.
Karyn White (pictured in 2011) reached number one in 1989 with "Superwoman" and "Love Saw It".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1989 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American–oriented genres; the chart's name has changed over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. [1]
Released as a single on May 22, 1989, "Bust a Move" is Young MC's biggest hit, reaching number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topping the charts in Australia in 1990. The song stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for 39 weeks and 20 weeks in the top 40, winning the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance .