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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.
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 ...
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.
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).
The 1990s also saw the emergence of pop/rock singer Natalie Imbruglia mainly thanks to her biggest hit - the cover of the song Torn which became one of the most popular pop songs of the decade. Other prominent pop singers that emerged during the 1990s included Peter Andre, pop band Human Nature, Tina Arena and R&B/hip-hop artists CDB and Deni ...
Belgian house music was very popular in 1990 with artists like Technotronic powering the charts with songs like No.2 smash "Get Up ! (Before the Night Is Over)" and "Rockin' Over the Beat", a big summer No.9 hit, and finally a "Megamix" rounded off the year, making number 6 in October.
During the 1990s the chart was based purely on the sales of physical singles, with airplay figures excluded from the official chart. At the beginning of the 1990s, sales of singles and albums in the United Kingdom were compiled on behalf of the British music industry by Gallup. This continued until 1994, when the contract to compile the UK ...
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