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The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s.
According to Andrew Leahey of Allmusic, Now That's What I Call the 1990s is a "narrow-minded compilation" with a mix of pop songs and alternative music which focuses on the second half of the decade and ignores "grunge, Euro-dance, and teen pop". [2]
2. “Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio (1995) Coolio sampled Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” in this chart-topping rap hit, which won a Grammy in the mid ‘90s and has enjoyed enduring ...
Now That's What I Call the 90s is a special edition of the Now! series released in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2009. The three-CD set has 60 UK number one hits from the 1990s. This was the first album in the series to combine songs from every year of the 1990s.
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).
Song Artist(s) Weeks at number one Ref. 1992 October 3 "End of the Road" Boyz II Men: 1 [4] October 10 "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" Patty Smyth and Don Henley: 3 [5] October 31 "How Do You Talk to an Angel" The Heights: 6 [6] December 12 "I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston: 9 [7] 1993 February 13 "Ordinary World" Duran Duran: 2 [8 ...
The Adult Top 40 chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and ranks "the most popular adult top 40 as based on radio airplay detections measured by Nielsen BDS." [1] The chart was first published in the March 16, 1996, issue of Billboard; however, historically, the chart's introduction was in October 1995, when it began as a test chart.
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."