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Billboard Decade-End is a series of music charts reflecting the most popular artists, albums, and songs in the United States throughout a decade. [1] Billboard first published their first decade-end rankings in December 1970, listing the artists with the most number ones of the 1960s.
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)".
The modern rock radio format experienced a substantial growth in popularity during the decade, [5] with the success of Nirvana's 1991 song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marking a "return of the crossover rock hit". [6] Speaking to Billboard in 1994, chart analyst Max Tolkoff remarked that in previous years, "people didn't care what was a hit on ...
While Santana's "Smooth" featuring Rob Thomas topped the chart in the first two weeks of 2000, it was not counted as a number-one single of the 2000s decade by Billboard because it had topped the chart in October 1999, and thus was counted as a number-one single of the 1990s decade only. [4]
From Mariah Carey, to Britney Spears, to Tobey Keith, see all the artists who were on top of their game, just years ago.
The 2000s in rock radio in the United States saw a continued blurring of the playlists among mainstream rock and alternative rock stations. Every track that was ranked by Billboard as the number-one song of the year on its Mainstream Rock Tracks chart during the decade was also a top-five hit on the Alternative Songs chart, most of which topped both charts.
Despite the fact that most early 2000s trends didn't survive the decade, one relic of the bygone era has made its way back into the zeitgeist: Heidi Pratt and Leighton Meester's pop music. The ...
In the early 2000s, there were also multiple moments in US politics that captured the world's attention. George W. Bush was sworn in as president in 2001. George W. Bush is sworn in on January 20 ...