Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 for 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIa9UEXd98Q

lol at such a nineties video for such an eighties song

on my station "In The House..." got as much airplay as – remember this? – Jamie Walter's "Hold On."

oh man:

With his residence in Los Angeles county, he pursued training, certification, and employment as a paramedic and worked with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He is now working as a full-time firefighter/paramedic for the Los Angeles City Fire Department as of early 2004. Walters is focusing on his family and his career with the fire department but hopes to get back into music and acting sometime in the near future.

I definitely remember "Hold On," mostly because I named my playlist of artists with top 20 hits in the 90s (and only the 90s) who never went top ten Jamie Walters (Not The Heights)

lol Jamie Walters

remember how he used 90210 to boost his music career, which was then torpedoed when they had his character beat the shit out of Donna Martin

I thought he used his music career to boost his firefighting stint

lol i had no idea he and drew barrymore were engaged

croup quite rightly placed "No Myth" at the top of a list that includes "Baby It's Tonight" (which I hear at the supermarket once a month) and "Hippychick."

it's in chronological order by order of appearance on the top 40

I can't believe "Now That We Found Love" didn't go top 10, ditto "The Humpty Dance"

also "No Myth" rules pretty hard

only way to forgive "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" at the bottom.

I don't think I've heard "Tic Tac Toe" since the 90s

that was totally new to me when I made these playlists and it's fucking great

omigod "Everything Changes." I worked at a Miami Subs when this thing played twice a day on the in-house system and hated when the Taylor Dayne clone sang "Everything looks the same through the eyes of love" and I thought, "Try sticking your hands in fry batter and tomato water, bitch."

a helluva Trevor Horn tribute, "Tic Tac Toe," with all those scratches and Yes samples in the right places.

I always liked how, at the end of "No Myth," the drum track turns into the intro to Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" Someone should do a mashup.

back to the 1995 list for a second, I'd forgotten how much I love "Every Little Thing I Do"; possibly one of the greatest drops of all time when the music echoes out and the voices come back in a capella

thinking of "Misery", which I still hear at supermarkets & the like: Let Your Dim Light Shine went platinum! Grave Dancers Union went triple platinum so it's no New Jersey but still.

lol i really like "on bended knee" :(

man "I Wanna Be Down" is a good song but I heard it so so so so so many times, I'm still burned out on it 18 years later

Let Your Dim Light Shine would qualify for the New Jersey poll if it'd gone multiplatinum.

"The Rhythm of the Night" is great but why does it even bother to have verses?

It was a minor hit on alt-rock radio

re: connells

man, if only Corona had popped up on alt-rock radio

lol @ coronas popping up

okay lol I never actually knew the name of "Roll To Me"

Every time I hear "Rhythm of the Night" I remember the time in college when my clock radio went off at 6:45 a.m. at the very precise moment she howls "THIS IS THE RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT!" and I laugh all over again.

If you don't fux with "On Bended Knee" you and I are not alike, that's all I have to say.

"On Bended Knee" isn't the objectionable Boyz II Men song on this list IMO

the version of "i'll make love to you" on the playlist sounds rerecorded btw

that's the pitfall of Spotify

yeah but via spotify i just learned boyz ii men released an album in 2009 where they cover the goo goo dolls and take that

The biggest airplay song not included here must have been "When I Come Around."

man, if only Corona had popped up on alt-rock radio

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lol @ coronas popping up

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xp second-biggest! biggest was the friends theme song "i'll be there for you" by the rembrandts

a few other big radio hits from that year that largely bypassed retail:

gin blossoms "til i hear it from you"
live "lightning crashes"
alanis morissette "you oughta know" and "hand in my pocket"

more on topic, whew, "kiss from a rose"

I'd completely forgotten that I created this playlist