Throwback Thursday: 1992 (14 Weeks at #1)

This is the penultimate edition of Throwback Thursday: Backwards Through the 90's! Next week will be the song with the most weeks at #1 in the 90's (and, until it was recently tied, of all time). And then we'll start something new.

Enjoy another classic!

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (11/28/92-2/27/93)

Throwback Thursday: 1991 (2 Weeks at #1) (Part 2)

What a Throwback week! 3 of the biggest names of the 90's in one place, plus one of the most "90's" songs of all time (EVERYBODY DANCE NOW.)

Mariah Carey - Someday (3/9-3/16)

Whitney Houston - All the Man That I Need (2/23-3/2)

C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (2/9-2/16)

Surface - The First Time (1/26-2/2)

Madonna - Justify My Love (1/5-1/12)

Throwback Thursday: 1990 (1 Week at #1) (Part 1)

12 Songs spent 1 week at #1 in 1990, so I split them into two halves. This half only goes until the beginning of October. Crazy.


Whitney Houston - I'm Your Baby Tonight (12/1)

Whitney has so many songs that I forget are by her, because I think of them as staples of the era. This is one of them

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (11/3)

I mean, what is there to say about this song that hasn't already been said. Yeah, it's cheesy. But it's also catchy as hell.

Janet Jackson - Black Cat (10/27)

Whoa. This is like Janet's "Beat It"! Listen to those guitars! Kind of upsetting that it got replaced by Vanilla Ice...

James Ingram - I Don't Have the Heart (10/20)

Look at him! Coming in and sitting down at the piano and just being like "Let's Do This."

George Michael - Praying For Time (10/13)

In the world where everyone is posting lyric videos on YouTube all the livelong day, this doesn't look like much, but imagine it among the flashy videos it would have been played among. It would have been pretty jarring.

Maxi Priest - Close to You (10/6)

So interesting to hear which songs that, like this one, have that classic early 90's pop production but actually spent a little time at #1. I feel like I'm 7 again...

Throwback Thursday: 1995 (1 Week at #1)

WOW what a great set of songs. And they only stayed in the top position for a WEEK? Crazy.

Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (11/25)

The first of two songs from a movie this week. I feel like no one talks about the "Movie Soundtrack Song Music Video" genre. It's truly a 90's icon. Show the performance, now clip, now performance, now clip. If you're feeling really bold, have the singer be in some way IN the movie. Perhaps a cameo by a star of the movie? Maybe, like in this one, the singer is actually one of the stars of the movie. Or, like we'll see later, maybe the singer is just belting it out from atop a building in the city where the movie takes place

Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone (9/2)

This song holds a Guinness World Record as the first song in the 37-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 to debut at number one. I actually thought it was #1 for longer than 1 week, but I guess I thought wrong. This is a great song, but get ready for basically no one to be wearing shirts.

Seal - Kiss From a Rose (8/26)

Just a classic song. Meets all the "MSSMV" requirements and also gives me a big injection of nostalgia. Love it.

Top Ten Tuesday: Natalie La Rose featuring Jeremih "Somebody"

Another song with Jeremih on it, another song that samples a very popular song from decades past. The last time we saw him, he was the lead on a song that sampled "Rhythm is a Dancer". This time he's on a song where he sings a modified version of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody".

And I love both songs. I love the songs they sample and I love them. Guess I'm just another sucker who drank the pop music kool-aid ;-)

So once again, I'm going to play the video and the video for the sampled song. This might be fun to do as an official thing. When a song makes the Top Ten and it samples or interprets another song, I'll play that one too.

Fun Fact: Whitney's song went to #1 and stayed there for two weeks in 1987.

Throwback Thursday: 1986

10. Miami Sound Machine - Conga
9. James Brown - Living in America
8. Stevie Nicks - Talk to Me
7. Paul McCartney - Spies Like Us
6. Mr. Mister - Kyrie
5. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know

Tough choice this week. Four songs from movie soundtracks. Two songs from Rocky IV. But I decided to go with this Whitney Houston song. I almost went with the Miami Sound Machine song. I enjoy it quite a lot, but this one edges it out by a nose.

4. Billy Ocean - When the Going Gets Tough (Jewel of the Nile Theme)
3. Wham! - I'm Your Man
2. Survivor - Burning Heart
1. Dionne - That's What Friends Are For

All Time Hot 100 (Part 6)

Oh no! I'm a day late on this one! It's the beginning of the top half of Billboard's All Time Hot 100 in celebration of their 55th birthday. So check this out and then check out the next one in a little bit!

50. Boyz II Men - End of the Road (1992)

49. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (1992)

48. Alicia Keys - No One (2007)

47. Elton John - Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight (1997)

46. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (2012)

45. Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing (1978)

44. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (1964)

43. Tommy Edwards - It's All in the Game (1958)

42. Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (1973)

41. Nickleback - How You Remind Me (2001)