These 1990’s One-Hit Wonder Songs Had One Breakthrough — and It Was More Than Enough

“ Baby Got Back ” spent five weeks at No. 1 during the summer of 1992 and 28 weeks on the Hot 100 total, making it the second best-selling song in the U.S. that year. It samples “Technicolor” by ...

These 1990’s One-Hit Wonder Songs Have Lived Rent-Free in Our Heads for 30 Years

With a music video directed by a pre-Hollywood Michael Bay, this bold single debuted at No. 78 and climbed to No. 4 on the Hot 100, earning three 1991 MTV VMA nominations including Video of the Year.
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4 Unheralded Songwriters Behind the Biggest Country Hits of the 1990s

The 1990s were really quite a decade for country music. Country pop was bubbling up, and traditional country was experiencing a revival of sorts during the decade. It really was a busy time for ...
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3 Times the Underdog Topped the Charts in the 1990s

The late great Sinéad O’Connor is one of my favorite underdog musicians to take over the US charts (and, honestly, the global charts) in the 1990s. O’Connor didn’t have a single song chart in the ...
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Clint Black Almost Didn't Record 1990 Chart-Topping Hit 'Nobody's Home'

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 3, 1990, Clint Black's hit song "Nobody's Home" entered its third week on the Hot Country Songs chart—but it almost ...