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Colorful costumes, endless radio play, and big-money music videos supported the top tunes throughout the '90s. In short, it was a time of musical triumph — and some of the decade’s biggest ...
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
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.
George Strait, a neo-traditionalist whose national success began in the early 1980s, enjoyed success as both a radio artist (17 No. 1 songs) and as a movie star (1992's Pure Country). Alabama , the most successful country band of the 1980s, continued their run of popularity with sell-out concerts and best-selling albums, while topping the ...
A cinema marquee advertises for the movie Alice’s Restaurant in Washington, Massachusetts, the hometown of Arlo Guthrie. October 1969. (Credit: Jonathan Blair/Corbis via Getty Images)
1776 (1972) – historical musical drama film depicting a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence [72]; Aguirre, the Wrath of God (German: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) (1972) – West German-Mexican-Peruvian epic historical drama film about Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who lead a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South ...
This is a partial list of songs that originated in movies that charted (Top 40) in either the United States or the United Kingdom, though frequently the version that charted is not the one found in the film. Songs are all sourced from, [1] [2] and,. [3] For information concerning music from James Bond films see
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.