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January 28. Interscope Records pays a radio station in Portland, Oregon, USA, $5000 to play the Limp Bizkit single "Counterfeit" fifty times.The business move is widely criticized in the media as "payola", but the controversy serves to further increase publicity for the band.
Master P (pictured) had three songs on the Year-End list, tying with Next, Busta Rhymes, and Usher as having the second-most songs. His song "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" and his feature on Montell Jordan's "Let's Ride" both appear in the top-40.
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Throughout the year, girl groups remained prevalent. All Saints who made No. 4 with their debut single "I Know Where It's At" in late 1997, clocked up 3 chart toppers across the year: the 1.25 million selling "Never Ever", popular covers of Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" and Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" (both released as a double A-side) and laid-back dance track "Bootie Call", all ...
Aerosmith becomes the first rock band to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"; Mustis joins Dimmu Borgir on keyboards.; Rob Halford of Judas Priest announces his homosexuality in an MTV interview.
Brandy's "The Boy Is Mine" (a duet with Monica) is the longest-running hit single of 1998, topping the Hot 100 for thirteen consecutive weeks. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing 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 airplay. In 1998 ...
List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 1998; List of Billboard Latin Pop Airplay number ones of 1998; List of number-one dance singles of 1998 (U.S.) List of number-one R&B singles of 1998 (U.S.)
Key ↑ – indicates single's top 10 entry was also its Hot 100 debut (#) – 1998 Year-end top 10 single position and rank (Despite not reaching the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at #11, I Don't Want to Wait by Paula Cole reached #10 on the Year-end Hot 100 single chart of 1998.)