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Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s. Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which at the time was a record. [4] [5] Lisa Loeb became the first artist to score a #1 hit before signing to any record label, with "Stay (I Missed You)".
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. [1] [2] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco-related sections, while some rap ...
The Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
Hip hop singles from any year which charted in the 1990 Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 [2] Song Artist Project Peak position "Ice Ice Baby" Vanilla Ice: To the Extreme: 1 "Pray" MC Hammer: Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: 2 "Have You Seen Her" MC Hammer Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: 4 "U Can't Touch This" MC Hammer Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em: 8 ...
Wilson Phillips (pictured) had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "Hold On" at number one and "Release Me" at number 19. Janet Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1990. Phil Collins (pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1990 ...
Year of release: 2004 Usher, Lil Jon, and Ludacris formed a '00s trio that made one of the most epic songs of the decade with "Yeah!" It spent 12 weeks in the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot ...
Mariah Carey (pictured in 2010) had her first chart-topper with "Vision of Love".. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1990 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]
The 1980s were hip-hop’s first full decade as a documented musical genre on record, and from ’80 to ’89, rap grew from single to albums, from party songs to social commentary, from simple ...