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On 1 July 1998 Chart Information Network (CIN) took over the management of the chart: CIN changed their name to the Official UK Charts Company in October 2001, later shortened to the Official Charts Company in 2008. [2] Unlike other decades, no decade-end charts for the 1990s for either singles or albums were broadcast on BBC Radio 1 at the end ...
Madonna scored four UK top 10 entries this year, including the number-one hit "Vogue". The UK Singles Chart is one of many music charts compiled by the Official Charts Company that calculates the best-selling singles of the week in the United Kingdom. [1] Before 2004, the chart was only based on the sales of physical singles.
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.
The first year of the 1990s saw a total of 17 singles top the chart. The first, "Hangin' Tough" by the boyband New Kids on the Block, which became the group's second chart-topper, set the record for lowest first-week sales for a number 1, with only 28,000 copies sold. Although January is usually a low sales month due to it being post-Christmas ...
London flu: 1972–1973 United States Influenza A virus subtype H3N2: 1,027 [209] 1973 Italy cholera epidemic 1973 Italy Cholera (El Tor strain) 24 [210] 1974 smallpox epidemic in India: 1974 India Smallpox: 15,000 [211] 1977 Russian flu: 1977–1979 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: 700,000 [212] [213] Sverdlovsk anthrax leak: 1979 ...
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Popular music of the United Kingdom in the 1990s continued to develop and diversify. While the singles charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups, British soul and Indian-based music also enjoyed their greatest level of mainstream success to date, and the rise of World music helped revitalise the popularity of folk music.
Official Music Video Chart - Chart based purely on the UK's biggest music videos of the week, based on sales of DVDs, Blu-rays and other physical formats. [8] Official Vinyl Singles Chart - Chart of the biggest selling vinyl singles. [9] Official Vinyl Albums Chart - Chart of the biggest selling vinyl albums. [9] Scottish Singles Chart ...