POLL: 20 years ago, these were the #1 singles of the summer! (1990)

total garbage, wouldn't want to have to listen to any of this tbh

this is worse than the 1985 poll damn

Pretty sure this was the year I decided to stop listening to radio and/or following the weekly top 40.

Pretty sure this was the year I decided to stop listening to radio and/or following the weekly top 40.

That was '94 for me, but it was for only a year. And then I gave up again sometime in the '00s, but this time only because I'm now old and haggard.

*blech*

The Mariah song is still dope. I have always hated the rest except, weirdly, for that Wilson Phillips song.

Roxette. Just for the unexpected chord progression in the chorus just before the end.

Oh man, I loved "She Ain't Worth It." This was right about the EXACT time I started paying attention to radio/pop music. Lots of memories.

It's like those fake songs they used to use in TGIF sitcoms.

Awesome.

Similar song from summer of '90:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBWKg1e7vR0

ha! I had wiped that guy from my memory.

I gave Bon Jovi a knee-jerk vote before I noticed the Wilson Phillips song

I was just sitting here thinking "what's missing from this list?" Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison," because it was absolutely inescapable that summer. But apparently it only peaked at #3 on the Hot 100. The heck?! I think that's the song that epitomizes 1990 for me.

Jam-Lewis experienced a new peak that summer, what with Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, etc.

As for Dino -- his shrewd handlers marketed him as "freestyle," so all his singles got tons of local airplay.

His biggest hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKwbSTaGsd0

I swear I didn't know this: Tom gets to Glenn Medeiros' other hit.

Huh, didn't realize Dino had another top 10 hit. Probably because it was just *before* "Romeo."

This is a great resource for seeing what was on the chart at any given time. It's not Billboard, it's ARC Weekly (which is airplay-only and tends toward mainstream top 40), but you still get a good feel for the time period.

(Click on any of the dates to see the top 40 for that week.)

Wow -- I know at least thirty-two of the songs on the July 21 list. This was the peak of my top 40 listening.

Where the fuck is
Poison-Bel Biv Devoe
Ready or Not-After 7
Can;t Stop-After 7
All I Do is think of you-Troop

"vision of love" and "it must have been love" are both AMAZING ("vision of love" is better)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

WTF? I've never heard those Glen Medeiros and Sweet Sensation songs either - and I'm a 1990 expert...

What is freestyle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Iq8JmmfxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksHsh4r8tJA

I remember Glenn Medeiros but dont think its that song.

Wow -- I know at least thirty-two of the songs on the July 21 list. This was the peak of my top 40 listening.

It's crazy how true this is for me too. Not July 21st. Apparently I hit my peak while "Escapade" was #1 a couple months prior.

(xx-post) Wow. I don't think I've heard either of those songs since I was about six, and I certainly didn't know that kind of music had a name. I would've just lumped it in with 80s pop. Interesting. So they called it "freestyle" even though it had nothing to do with freestyle rapping?

Its longer name is Latin Freestyle, though the "latin" part got largely dropped by the time people like Information Society moved in on the sound.

Wow -- I know at least thirty-two of the songs on the July 21 list. This was the peak of my top 40 listening.

It's crazy how true this is for me too. Not July 21st. Apparently I hit my peak while "Escapade" was #1 a couple months prior.

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