Archive 1975-1979 | 1980-1984 | 1985-1989 | 1990-1994 | 1995-1999 Artist Song 2 Unlimited, ‘No Limit’: No Lyrics, No Problem 4 Non Blondes, ‘What’s Up?’: A protest song about nothing Ace Of Base, ‘All That She Wants’: Were Ace of Base secretly Nazis? Aerosmith, ‘Cryin’: Alicia Silverstone was The Aerosmith Girl and people were weird about it Annie Lennox, ‘Love Song for a Vampire’: Old monsters die hard Arrested Development, “Mr. Wendal”: Clumsy liberalism hits the chart Beck, ‘Loser’: How Beck emerged from NY’s antifolk scene Billy Joel, ‘River of Dreams’: Quiet quitting with Billy Joel Billy Ray Cyrus, ‘Achy Breaky Heart’: The government made me line dance Black Lace, ‘Agadoo’: The Sound of Butlins-Core Blind Melon, ’No Rain’: Blind Melon vs The Bee Girl Blondie, ‘Dreaming’: Surviving and thriving in 70s New York Boy George, ‘The Crying Game’: The film’s complicated legacy Boyz II Men, ‘End Of The Road’: Why we love breakup songs Celine Dion, ‘Think Twice’: The last real Number One Charles & Eddie, ‘Would I Lie To You?’: The beginning and end of a beautiful friendship Cher with Beavis and Butt-Head, ‘I Got You Babe’: Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Charts Color Me Badd, ‘I Wanna Sex You Up: Dialing up the cringe-o-meter Corona, ‘The Rhythm of the Night’: When did men stop dancing? Crash Test Dummies, ‘Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm’: The monster behind most novelty songs Cypress Hill: ‘Insane In The Brain’: The N-Word goes mainstream Daniel O’Donnell, ‘Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love’: The king of the Irish soft boys David Bowie, ‘Jump They Say’: The man who fell to earth David Essex, ‘Stardust’: The first draft of history Def Leppard: ‘Let’s Get Rocked’: The internet was a mistake DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, ‘Boom! Shake The Room!’: Will Smith’s career goes Boom! Dr. Alban, ‘It’s My Life’: Whose life is it anyway Duran Duran, ‘Ordinary World’: A proper Top Of The Pops Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson, ‘I Know Him So Well’: Hits in a weird niche Electronic, ‘Disappointed’: The unlikely friendship of two icons Erasure, ABBA-Esque: How Erasure saved ABBA from obscurity Flowered Up, ‘Weekender’: The party doesn’t stop until you’re dead Freddie Mercury and Monsterrat Caballé, ‘Barcelona’: Opera for the masses Freddie Mercury, ‘Living On My Own’: Freddie’s fun side Gabrielle, ‘Dreams’: The cost of chasing your dreams George Michael: ‘Too Funky’: What happened to George Michael’s missing album? Haddaway, ‘What Is Love’: Making the shareholders happy Hole, ‘Miss World’: What Courtney did next Hot Chocolate, ‘No Doubt About It’: Britain’s UFO flap year House Of Pain, ‘Jump Around’: Hip-hop’s weirdest beef 1 2 3 Next Page→
