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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.
The mid-1990s also witnessed a drastic difference between what reached the top of the Mainstream Top 40 chart and the Hot 100, when songs started being promoted to radio and receiving significant airplay without the release of a commercially available single, a requirement for a song to reach the Hot 100.
Plaid shirts, scrunchies, Doc Martens, tights under shorts, sagging jeans, Hot Topic, stussy signs on binders, Seinfeld, raver pants, America Online, mixtapes…there’s so much about the ‘90s ...
Just when you thought the ’90s couldn’t possibly deliver another song about disaffected youths and the woes of a jilted generation, the Verve released “Bitter Sweet Symphony” in 1997 ...
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).
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 ...
Nirvana attained four number-one songs on the chart during the decade, including the crossover hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit". R.E.M.'s "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" was the first number-one debut in the chart's history. Marcy Playground stayed at number one for fifteen weeks in 1998 with the song "Sex and Candy".
inspired '90s music fans to boldly have a fun time, let loose, and, of course, do it in style. A going-out playlist would be incomplete without this song, which was one of greatest bops of the decade.