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  2. Britpop - Wikipedia

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    Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness. Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock , in reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the American-led grunge music and the Britain's own shoegaze music scene.

  3. List of UK singles chart number ones of the 1990s - Wikipedia

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    Elton John scored his first solo number one in 1990. After more than a decade without a hit, Meat Loaf topped the charts for the first time in 1993. Danish pop band Aqua scored three consecutive number ones with one of the UK's biggest selling singles "Barbie Girl" in 1997, and the follow up's "Doctor Jones" and "Turn Back Time" in 1998 making them one of the most successful bands this decade.

  4. Blur: The Best Of - Wikipedia

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    Blur: The Best Of is a greatest hits compilation album by English Britpop band Blur, first released in late 2000 and is the final Blur album by Food Records.It was released on CD, cassette tape, MiniDisc, double 12" vinyl record, DVD and VHS.

  5. Music of the United Kingdom (1990s) - Wikipedia

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    Britpop emerged from the British indie scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. [1] The movement developed as a reaction against various musical and cultural trends in the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly the grunge phenomenon from the United States. [ 1 ]

  6. Sleeper (band) - Wikipedia

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    A greatest hits compilation, with a tracklisting selected by and artwork designed by the band themselves, was released on Sony/BMG in 2007. Their first two albums were reissued as deluxe versions on 29 November 2010, with second discs of B-sides and live tracks.

  7. 1990 in British music - Wikipedia

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    Her album success did not end there, however, with The Immaculate Collection (greatest hits release) becoming her most successful album ever, topping the UK albums chart for 9 weeks and selling 3.6 million copies in the UK (10th best selling album of all-time) and promotional single "Justify My Love" giving her a second No. 2 hit, whose video ...

  8. List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1990s - Wikipedia

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    British band Simply Red spent 19 weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart during the 1990s, longer than any other act.. The UK Albums Chart is a weekly record chart based on album sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom; during the 1990s, a total of 216 albums reached number one.

  9. Common People - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, BBC Radio 6 Music listeners voted it their favourite Britpop song in an online poll. [3] In a 2015 Rolling Stone readers' poll it was voted the greatest Britpop song. [4] The song is a critique of the wealthy wanting to be "like common people" – ascribing glamour to poverty. [5] This phenomenon is referred to as slumming or "class ...