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Colorful costumes, endless radio play, and big-money music videos supported the top tunes throughout the '90s. In short, it was a time of musical triumph — and some of the decade’s biggest ...
The ’90s were the twilight of music’s analog era. It was a time of unparalleled musical diversity and creativity, buoyed by consumers who saved their allowances and paychecks to buy CDs and ...
Plaid shirts, scrunchies, Doc Martens, tights under shorts, sagging jeans, Hot Topic, stussy signs on binders, Seinfeld, raver pants, America Online, mixtapes…there’s so much about the ‘90s ...
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.
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).
Nirvana attained four number-one songs on the chart during the decade, including the crossover hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit". R.E.M.'s "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" was the first number-one debut in the chart's history. Marcy Playground stayed at number one for fifteen weeks in 1998 with the song "Sex and Candy".
From grunge to hip-hop and bubblegum pop, this decade had it all.
The mid-1990s also witnessed a drastic difference between what reached the top of the Mainstream Top 40 chart and the Hot 100, when songs started being promoted to radio and receiving significant airplay without the release of a commercially available single, a requirement for a song to reach the Hot 100.