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As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
Planet Premiere – A music artist sits down with Ernest "Ernie D." Martinez or Candice Huckeba as their newest album or song is played on Radio Disney. Before each song plays, the artist tells the listeners how the song was conceived, and what its meaning was. Power Prize – The "Power Prize" occurs at least six times a day. A winner of a ...
BDS measures actual airplay by monitoring radio stations continuously with computers that "listen for the unique 'audio fingerprint' of each song and register a detection every time a song is played." [2] One of the first noticeable effects of the change in methodology was that there tended to be less turnover of the top songs. Before the ...
People didn’t really see Mariah Carey as an innovator in the ’90s, but with “Fantasy “(Remix),” she single-handedly remade pop music in her image and cemented her legacy as one of the ...
A little bit pop, a little bit country and a big female star with serious talent—Sheryl Crow’s catchy tune was impossible to escape (and the bane of every grunge-lover’s existence). Listen ...
Mainstream Top 40 is compiled from airplay on radio stations which play a wide variety of music, not just "pure pop", which Billboard defines as "melodic, often synth-driven, uptempo fare". [2] During the 1990s, mainstream top 40 went from R&B dominating the airwaves (and thus the charts) in the early 1990s to rock and alternative music ...
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 ...
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.