Greatest Billboard Top 40(-ish) (Song That Is Reminiscent Of A) Ballad (1990 edition)

Oops meant to vote for "Whip Appeal" or "Vision of Love"

What's your radio station, Alfred? I have no idea what its range is/was, but I was a WAPE devotee until my family moved away from FL in the summer of '90, so it's entirely possible that that was the last time I heard that oft-played Michael Damian song (or any number of its contemporaries) on the radio. The pop stations in Indiana couldn't hold a candle to what I was listening to in Jacksonville.

I voted for Janet, but here are the rest of the correct answers to this poll:

Sinead O'Connor - 'Nothing Compares 2U'
Concrete Blonde - 'Joey'
Madonna - 'Oh Father'
Lou Gramm - 'Just Between You And Me'
Tesla - 'Love Song'
Regina Belle - 'Make It Like It Was'
Taylor Dayne - 'Love Will Lead You Back'
After 7 - 'Ready Or Not'
Gloria Estefan - 'Here We Are'
Brent Bourgeois - 'Dare To Fall In Love'
Faster Pussycat - 'House Of Pain'
Mariah Carey - 'Vision Of Love'
Maxi Priest - 'Close To You'
Nikki - 'Notice Me'
Whistle - 'Always And Forever'

Voted Lisa Stansfield, because ultimately that's the most correct answer to this poll.

I left Lisa Stansfield off of my finalist list because apparently it's not a ballad or whatever people were complaining about upthread. It would've definitely been a contender otherwise.

figured Sinead would have plenty of votes, so I went with the one Henley song I genuinely love.

What's your radio station, Alfred?

at the time Y-100 or Power 96.