American here. That's not necessarily the case. Eurodance didn't go unnoticed here in the US. Alice Deejay, Black Box, 2 Unlimited, La Bouche, Real McCoy and ATC were only a few of that genre's acts that had hits in this country.
@@marcus813 Haddaway and 2 Unlimited both had at least one single reach the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 but that's not the point. Many of these acts had multiple hits in the UK and of course around Europe. 2 Unlimited's Get Ready is a Sporting Anthem in the US but it only barely scraped into the high 30s on the Hot 100. Twilight Zone and No Limit didn't even get into the Top 40 of the Hot 100. 2 Unlimited, a Dutch act btw, had 8 Top 10 hits in the UK with another 6 songs reaching the Top 40. Corona, an Italian act, reached #11 on the Hot 100 with Rhythm of the Night but none of their other 4 UK Top 40 singles were hits in the US with Baby Baby the only other one to even break into the Hot 100.
@@marcus813 the eurodance acts that had rappers had big hits here because "urban" stations who would generally play house and dance music could slide those songs into their format. I grew up in the Bay Area and eurodance was pretty massive around the San Francisco area in the 1990s and 2000s.
@@franohmsford7548 there was this stupid event in the US back in the late 70s called Disco Demolition Night, where hundreds of people smashed disco records in a baseball field. The event was covered extensively, and people who hated disco started blowing up radio stations that were playing disco demanding them to stop. This ignited a (mostly homophobic) major backlash against disco and dance music and the effects of it are still felt today. But definitely in the 80s and 90s, I could see smaller suburban or rural stations that are more close-minded not wanting to play anything that was "too disco" and risk getting a torrent of complaints like they did back in the late 70s. The big cities absolutely embraced eurodance and trance though. We had several dance radio stations in San Francisco and its surrounding areas. And the acts I remember being especially massive were Ace of Base and Aqua.
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@@Beckford4000 it's not that it's too much fun for us. It's that the conformist mainstream in America associate dance music with gays and other minorities. The war on dance music in USA started at the end of the '70s with some MAGA-like radio rock DJ in Chicago pissed off that the radio station he worked for replaced rock with disco, which led to that pathetic and absurdly melodramatic Death to Disco movement. This anti-disco sentiment carried on and eventually led to the almost complete lack of SOUL in dance music and the rise of cutesy-poo white female singers trying to sound sleazy or white trash hip. The "whitening" of disco/dance music vocals and the rise of DJs who became push-button computerized recording artists is why dance clubs have been a bore since around 2016. (note the timeline. lol)... America has always had a love affair with musical Velveeta.. and other artificial orange garbage.
Same. Though it's really interesting how many other genres were also in mainstream radio rotation. It feels like we had more variety in music, even though eurodance was all the craze.
When I moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles in 1993 I discovered a whole new variety of radio stations playing dance/electronica music that was a departure from the one horse small town of Bakersfield.
I agree with you. Many of these songs were on the radio, on MTV at the time. I think whomever is making these lists are only looking at the pop charts which don't tell the whole story.
@@sampa2nyc The full story would be that the albums that some came from sold well, or a 12" single sold well (but at the time Billboard did not include them on the Hot 100 tabulation) or some of the songs hit the Top 10 on other Billboard charts like the Dance chart.
@@sampa2nyc No but that's what it comes down to ultimately. A song isn't a hit just because it got a lot of airplay on one station, although that obviously helps. If this was a list of unknown songs perhaps the argument would be a fair one.
It's weird when they are songs from american artists: Tori Amos, Cher, Red Hot Chili Peppers and so on... I understand it more when we talk about Eurodance or british artists like Robbie Williams but I remember "Angels" was in Dawson's Creek's soundtrack...
There was a major push by Robbie Williams’ record company to make him a star in the US, but it just never happened. Had a butterfly in China flapped its wings differently, maybe Williams would have been successful in the US while Ed Sheeran or Adele were ignored.
in France we had also better results than the US for some songs : Maria by Ricky Martin stayed 9 weeks nr 1 of the french charts Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop) by Scatman was nr 1 also Goldeneye by Tina Turner peaked Top 3 Strong enough by Cher peaked top 3 Crucify by Tori Amos peaked top 17 Don't You Want Me by Felix peaked top 4 Life by Haddaway peaked top 5 Free by Ultra Naté peaked top 6 Encore une fois by Sash peaked top 7 "Music Sounds Better with You" by Stardust peaked top 10 (a cruel Irony for a french group) "Insomnia" by Faithless peaked Top 7 Robert Miles is more know by us for Children who stayed several weeks nr1
Not surprising to see so much Eurodance, but the American artists (Amos, Hawkins, mostly Garbage) who charted in the UK and not in the US are surprising.
In the mid to late 90s, US labels began to release songs to airplay but not commercially in order to make folks buy albums. Billboard's charting rules at that time required commercial availability. When they finally made copies to purchase, it was too late. This caused many songs to pop on the chart for a few short weeks and peak usually somewhere below the top 50.
@@piper998877That's why No Doubt's "Don't Speak" was ineligible for the American Hot 100. If it were able to get in, it would've had insanely long run at the top.
Diana Ross, Cher, RHCP, Faith No More - I'd say those are bigger shocks than the three you mentioned :) P.S. I'm a big fan of Garbage but it's not really shocking that Milk didn't chart on the Hot 100 in the US, neither did Queer, #1 Crush, I Think I'm Paranoid, When I Grow Up, You Look So Fine or The World is Not Enough. I'd be surprised if many of their later singles broke the Hot 100 either.
@franohmsford7548 Yeah, despite having great songs with videos to match that got good airtime on MTV, Garbage were never really a singles band. At least Only Happy When It Rains got a nice needle drop in Captain Marvel a few years ago!
Mariah Carey, drippy RNB ballads (e.g. Boyz II Men, All 4 One, Toni Braxton) and country. Also, rap did so much better in the USA than in the UK, the likes of Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg etc had songs that spent 15-20 weeks or more on the US chart, whereas they entered and fell fast in the UK.
> USA was busy with Mariah Carey and Boyz to Men. UK was busy with boy bands (East 17, Take That, Boyzone), girl groups (Spice Girls, All Saints, B*Witched) and Britpop (Blur, Oasis, (London) Suede, The Verve, Supergrass). However: Whitney, Mariah, Celine, Boyz II Men, R. Kelly all had hits in Europe as well.
Actually this is not a true reflection on America's music tastes. For instance, Roxette had 4 #1 hits in USA ,none in the UK .,which made them more popular Swedish group than Abba. Alot of good R&B groups that got shut out of UK like T.L C I noticed the UK likes to embrace mediocre songs by big artists after they've past their hit making prime I agree about boring artists like Boys ll Men I was a big Pet Shop Boys fan and own a copy of the Beloved's Happiness 🇺🇸
The USA is huge and the business men in charge of radio play were in charge of what people heard outside of large American cities Dance music was always popular in large American Cities. Where do you think Disco, New Wave, Hi-NRG, FreeStyle, Techno, House/Acid started
@pepsiq11965 As an American who has lived in a large radio market his whole life (Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater in my case), that's correct. The legacy Top 40 radio station here played a crap-ton of dance hits in the '90s whether it was Eurodance, house, breakbeat, techno or freestyle.
@@karstenhanel8481NOT REALLY.I LIVE IN PUERTO RICO.WE ARE PART OF THE US AND THE EURODANCE IN THE ISLAND WAS SUUPER POPULAR AND THE REGGAE WITH DANCEHALL
Only real surprises were the American acts that flopped (Tina Turner in particular, Goldeneye done huge numbers at Box Office). For artists outside US, the American market has always been considered the hardest to 'crack'. This may be over-simplifying but I think American culture has always been taught to be mistrusting of anything originating from outside the US and this is why its harder for non-American acts to get over. Consider The Beatles. In the UK, we have the image of them touching down to screaming fans almost burned into us because it was so rare to see a British act that was popular in the US.
Many crimes here, I cant believe Love to Hate You and Born Slippy never charted in the USA, I know USA is not too much into electro/dance music however this songs were truly hits!
“Go West” may have flopped nationally but it was a smash hit in the gay bars of Minneapolis. I remember dancing to it on top of the bar at The Saloon with my handsome new boyfriend during Pride 1994.
Back in 1993, the video was ranked by Canada's Much Music as the cheesiest video of 1993. And rightly so. It came a mere years after Eastern Europe and even the USSR itself kissed Communism goodbye. So to see Communism saluted in Go West, bad timing indeed! Very bad timing!
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Celebrities debuted in this decade 1990 Mariah carey Jim Carrey ( tv debuted) Chris Farley 1991 Reese Witherspoon Gwyneth Paltrow Keri Russell 1992 Cameron Diaz 1992 Hillary swank Katherine Heigl 1993 Brandy Alicia slivetstone Britney spears Justin Timberlake Christina Aguilera 1994 Brandy ( music debuted) Lindsay Lohan Matt LeBlanc ( tv debuted) 1995 Monica Backstreet boys 1996 Terry crews Nynsc 1997 Katie Holmes 1998 Britney spears ( music debuted) Christina Aguilera ( music debuted) Zooey Deschanel 1999 Mandy Moore Anne Hathaway Jesse Eisenberg Seth Rogan
Of course. Back in the 90's, the pop charts were obsessed with hip hop and gangsta rap. They didn't allow for much variety. Especially since most rock artists didn't bother releasing their catchiest tracks as singles. Back then if you wanted to make the Hot 100, you had to release it as a single AND get airplay if you wanted to make the Hot 100. No exceptions back then.
I heard three or four of these at dance clubs in L.A. They were dance music hits but not pop hits. Corona had a big dance hit "Rhythm of the Night" but I never heard "Baby, Baby" played in the clubs. I do remember "Devotion" as well. And Haddaway's big hit here was "What is Love?", not the one mentioned in this video. Sounds like UK was really into that Italo-Disco sound which was mostly relegated to dance clubs in the '90s here.
No Britpop entries, or is that because they charted better on the US Modern Rock Charts or US Alternative Airplay charts? I mean, There's No Other Way by Blur reached No.82 on the Hot 100, and Girls & Boys by them reached No.59. Stutter by Elastica reached No.67, and Connection by them reached No.53.
It's definitely not because of Modern Rock or Alternative Airplay Charts - These videos are pretty clear that a song had to reach the Hot 100 Top 40 to be considered a "hit". The very first song in the video {Simply Red's Stars} is considered to have flopped in the US even with a Hot 100 ranking of #44. Song 2 is Blur's only "hit" in the US!
A lot of popular nineties songs were never released as physical singles in the US and therefore weren’t eligible for the Hot 100. No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” is a notorious example.
Now I am sorry, but there are a couple of songs that were definitely big hits when I was growing up in Texas: Soup Dragons - I'm Free and Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away Now
While BB charts were full of crap 90's grunge bands, UK charts showed the variety of the most wonderful pop, dance , edm hits of the time! Thanks Europe for stay loyal to the music we love!!
Biggest surprises here are “I Like To Move It” and “Give It Away,” which were ubiquitous in the early nineties. Weird Al Yankovic even parodied the latter with “Bedrock Anthem” on his *Alapalooza* album. Poor Haddaway came so close to avoiding one-hit wonder status in America. “What Is Love” actually wasn’t that big a hit when it was first released in the US, but it became iconic when it was featured in the “Night at the Roxbury” SNL sketches and movie.
I am glad I live in NYC. All of the Dance songs on this video we heard on the Radio. With 90s WKTU and college stations we were lucky to hear all genres of Dance & Alt music. Loved the Manchester groovy dance rock bands, Grunge Music, Techno, House, and Jungle Music and all other Dance Genres heard throughout the city including off topic "The Robin Byrd Show." Some weird sexually charged show with naked Female & Male strippers on TV after midnight
A lot of those songs were played on WBBM-FM in Chicago during the 1990's. However, dance music had to compete with alternative rock, hip-hop, and pop/R&B. In addition, a lot of those acts listed did have at least one hit song in America yet their follow up hits which topped the UK charts stiffed here. I'm also pretty certain that most of the alternative/grunge songs that were massive hits in the USA flopped in the UK, particularly because the UK had its own Britpop movement.
@@728huey the grunge and britpop eras happened at different times though. Grunge is early 90s, whereas Britpop is mid-90s for the most part (1994 is the year of the first Oasis album and Blur's "Parklife"). The main competition to grunge was probably the rave scene, which dominated the late 80s and early 90s in the UK. Nirvana did pretty well here in the UK. Pearl Jam only managed one top 20 hit with "Alive" though. I expect the follow-up video to this with UK flops will show quite a few grunge and RnB tracks not doing well in the UK.
The single version featured in the video was remixed and featured Tricky of Massive Attack. The original is a bit different: ua-cam.com/video/E13NIDCF_-Q/v-deo.html vs ua-cam.com/video/RJghYrrx8fQ/v-deo.html
Thank you for the research. 1. Many Dance, AAA (Adult Alternative), and Rock songs were not released as singles in the US. 2. Prior to 1998, these songs were ineligible to make Billboard's Top 100. Eligible songs needed to be released on a physical medium. And they needed to be played on Top 40 stations. Be a 45, not a 12-inch songle. 3. Billboard has many airplay charts for the US. Many of the dance songs made Billboard's dance charts. 4. What charts do the UK have? 5. Dance songs are different. Normally, they were released on 12 inch.
Why americans hate electronic music that much? Like they only got EDM, and that was it, beside that they don´t really appretiate the artistry behind the genre
The single didn't chart well but the album "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" hit The Top 5 and sold over 7 million copies. Now the second single "Under The Bridge" climb to No. 2 on The Billboard Hot 100.
Faltou Muito som anos 90 .... Fica Dica para proximas ediçoes Sunscreem - Love U More Seal - Crazy Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy (Radio Edit) General Public - I'll Take You There (1994) East 17 - Around the World Another Level Feat.Jay Z - Be Alone No More (C & J Radio Mix) Andrew Sixty - Let's Make Love (1994) Double Trouble - Love Don't Live Here Anymore Sect - Follow You (Crazy For You) Apache Indian - Boom Shack-A-Lak (1993) Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper (Heartical Mix) Prêt-Á-Porter Chaka Demus & Pliers with Jack Radics & Taxi Gang - Twist and Shout (Straight Mix 2) (1992) 10,000 Maniacs - More Than This (Todd Terry Crossover Mix) Bizarre Inc. - I'm Gonna Get You (Remix by Ricardo Coppini) Big Fun - Can't Shake The Feeling Black Box - Strike It Up (Sensitive Edit Mix) C&C Music Factory - Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll Electronic - Getting Away With It (Full Length Version) EMF - Unbelievable 2 Boys - I Won't Let You Down Def Dames Dope - It's Ok, All Right (Rap Version) Adventures Of Stevie V. - Dirty Cash (Money Talks) (Sold Out Mix) (7' Edit) Clio & Kay - Street Groove (Street Edit Mix) Cut 'n' Move - Get Serious (Cut The Crap Clean Version) 1991 Dimples D. - Sucker D.J. (Ben Liebrand Radio Edit) Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun Slizzy Bob - Everybody Loves Sombody
They were big hits in Latin America too. But living in US for 15 years I can say Americans don’t dance so much. Not like in other countries where every party has dancing.
As an American, the one I truly can't believe is RHCP's "Give It Away." It was absolutely everywhere and inescapable on the radio and MTV, how was it only a #73 hit??
I noticed it too that European countries embraced the dance/techno songs whereas the boring Americans were stuck listening to Grunge; Hip Hop and Country music.
Robbie Williams "Angels" was played a lot on Adult Contemporary radio in America. Garbage "Milk" was played a lot on MTV and Modern Rock radio in America.
That Scatman John song was everywhere in the US, not sure what happened there…also the Cher song, the I like to move it move it song, the Soup Dragons (played constantly) and RHCP- Give It Away? That song was *everywhere* too.
90's in USA was rap, nu metal, grunge rock and pop. While Europe and Latin America were dance music, house, swing rap, freestyle, techno, trance, rap, rock, metal, drum'n'bass, eurodance, grunge, acid house, italo house, EBM, jungle, Detroit Techno, Chicago House, Technopop, nu-metal, rave, psychadellic trance, hardcore breakbeat, balearic beats, Latin House, techno from Valencia, Belgium and Germany and so on so on so on so on... 😎
Was in college in the urban NE of the US during the mid-90s, and some of these songs actually seemed to b bigger than their actual chart position. I think big city radio stations and party DJs liked them, but either they weren’t selling as singles and/or other parts of the country weren’t into them. I think big city tastes prob had more of an effect in the UK. Obviously this was way before streaming.
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Great music in the 90's. In this video all are fantastic. It's insane they never were big hits in the U.S. Got to get, it's a fine day, Sweet Harmony, I love to hate You, Go west In youy loving arms" my favourites
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UK solely counting on physical sales back then not like the US, airwaves impact the chart run with slightly CD sales counting. There was no digital download, people consume music on physical CDs.
It's interesting to see what songs technically flopped in the US but were still well known. Like RHCP's Give it Away didn't make the top 40 but was (and is) still heavily played on rock radio. And those of us into dance music would know quite a few of these songs even though they didn't make the main charts
Also worth mentioning that until 1998, Billboard didn't count anything besides pure singles sales on the Hot 100, so all the airplay Give It Away got didn't matter in terms of chart success. This was pre-iTunes. CD singles did not sell well at all in the US because they were stupid expensive, and not every record store stocked cassingles after the early 90s. You waited and bought the whole album rather than the single. Or downloaded it on Napster when that came around lol. Another song I can remember that was huge but did not chart was No Doubt's "Don't Speak," which never got a proper single release.
@@ExplorHits well this is why the charts shouldn't include airplay. The Billboard Hot 100 does, I believe, but the official UK one never has (though there were alternatives that did in the 90s). The UK was sales only until 2014.
@@ExplorHits OMG, that Sandra's 'Maria Magdalena' opening is it. You really know your stuff. Respect. About the 'Twilight Zone' sample, do you mean from the original show's opening theme or another track from the show? I just listened to the original TV opening theme but it sounded different. Maybe they just changed it too much for my ears? I really enjoyed Sandra's 'Maria Magdalena' opening sample. I never knew about that at all. Some joke that the best thing that came out of the original Mortal Kombat movie was that killer beat theme song. They remixed it for the latest Mortal Kombat movie and it was good as well. I love the intricacies involved in creating these memorable songs. For example, I learned that the James Bond theme was actually taken from an Indian song about a man with an unfortunate sneeze. I never would have guessed some wizard could change it to the suave theme of 007 we all know. They turned a funny song to a 'serious' one. I love finding out that well-known songs were samples of others. Thank you so much for the info, friend. You are awesome!
I'm surprised there is no mention of Inner City, who had a string of #1 dance music hits in the USA but seemingly never dented the pop charts here. I wonder how they did in the UK. The tracks "Good Life" and "Big Fun" were still being played by American DJs in 2015 even though the group's initial success was in the late '80s! I know because I danced to them numerous times.
At the beginning of the 1990's, the US seemed as on board with eurodance as the UK and the rest of Europe but somewhere along the way, only a handful of tracks were able to crack the US top 40 (What Is Love, Be My Lover, Ooh Ah Just A Little Bit...)
@@ExplorHits - well, I know some did, because I have CD singles for “Animal Nitrade” and “Stay Together,” and there’s an alt chart ranking for “Metal Mickey.” Might the confusion be that the USA records were released as The London Suede instead of Suede? I’ve always thought that odd name was part of why they didn’t find an audience - Suede is otherwise a great British band name, right up there with Wham!, Blur, and Oasis.
En México muchas de estas canciones se popularizaron en la radio pero también por la señal de MTV Latino donde estuvieron en rotación. Las del género House o Eurodance eran mis favoritas en aquellas inolvidables noches de MasterMix como: Go west, Scatman, Life, Baby baby, Strong enough, Born slippy y la de culto, Insomnia y muchísimas mas. 👌
I did expect Culture Club : I Just Wanna Be Loved (uk 4, nothing in the US, 1998), Tori Amos : Professional Widow (uk 1, nothing in the US, 1997), Bjork : It's Oh So Quiet and HyperBallad (uk 4 and uk 8, nothing in America), things like that...
It's sometimes really astonishing to realize some songs are virtually unknown in the US which all Europeans over here can sing off the top of their head on every party.
Apart my dislike for eurodance, there are many songs which are great and deserved better venture in the US. Still, position around number 60 or higher aren't flops for such a market!
They were really eurodancephobic in the us 😂
American here. That's not necessarily the case. Eurodance didn't go unnoticed here in the US. Alice Deejay, Black Box, 2 Unlimited, La Bouche, Real McCoy and ATC were only a few of that genre's acts that had hits in this country.
@@marcus813 Haddaway and 2 Unlimited both had at least one single reach the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 but that's not the point.
Many of these acts had multiple hits in the UK and of course around Europe.
2 Unlimited's Get Ready is a Sporting Anthem in the US but it only barely scraped into the high 30s on the Hot 100.
Twilight Zone and No Limit didn't even get into the Top 40 of the Hot 100.
2 Unlimited, a Dutch act btw, had 8 Top 10 hits in the UK with another 6 songs reaching the Top 40.
Corona, an Italian act, reached #11 on the Hot 100 with Rhythm of the Night but none of their other 4 UK Top 40 singles were hits in the US with Baby Baby the only other one to even break into the Hot 100.
@@marcus813 the eurodance acts that had rappers had big hits here because "urban" stations who would generally play house and dance music could slide those songs into their format. I grew up in the Bay Area and eurodance was pretty massive around the San Francisco area in the 1990s and 2000s.
@@franohmsford7548 there was this stupid event in the US back in the late 70s called Disco Demolition Night, where hundreds of people smashed disco records in a baseball field. The event was covered extensively, and people who hated disco started blowing up radio stations that were playing disco demanding them to stop. This ignited a (mostly homophobic) major backlash against disco and dance music and the effects of it are still felt today. But definitely in the 80s and 90s, I could see smaller suburban or rural stations that are more close-minded not wanting to play anything that was "too disco" and risk getting a torrent of complaints like they did back in the late 70s. The big cities absolutely embraced eurodance and trance though. We had several dance radio stations in San Francisco and its surrounding areas. And the acts I remember being especially massive were Ace of Base and Aqua.
@@beatmania3rdmix wow, that's a fascinating info 😯 thanks!
Celebrities died in this decade
1990
Sammy Davis jr.
Bill Cullen
Jim Henson
1991
Michael Landon
Danny Thomas
1992
Mike Brady
1993
Audrey Hepburn
Bill Bixby
1994
Telly savalas
John candy
President Nixon
1995
Selena
1996
Sprio Agnew
Gene Kelly
1997
Chris Farley
James Stewart
John Denver
1998
Jack Lord
Frank Sinatra
1999
Gene Rayburn
Robert Reed, yes, from the Brady family
which makes me wonder what kind of music were they listening to during those years.
Clubs in America must have been really crap in the 90’s
I knew the vast majority would be dance music ...as americans are allergic to dance music.
it's too much fun for them. They prefer violent, sexist rap, sugary rnb ballads and cliched country crap.
@@Beckford4000 Well said!
@@Beckford4000 it's not that it's too much fun for us. It's that the conformist mainstream in America associate dance music with gays and other minorities. The war on dance music in USA started at the end of the '70s with some MAGA-like radio rock DJ in Chicago pissed off that the radio station he worked for replaced rock with disco, which led to that pathetic and absurdly melodramatic Death to Disco movement. This anti-disco sentiment carried on and eventually led to the almost complete lack of SOUL in dance music and the rise of cutesy-poo white female singers trying to sound sleazy or white trash hip. The "whitening" of disco/dance music vocals and the rise of DJs who became push-button computerized recording artists is why dance clubs have been a bore since around 2016. (note the timeline. lol)... America has always had a love affair with musical Velveeta.. and other artificial orange garbage.
Да! Правильно спел товарищь Haddaway, жизнь никогда не будет прежней
90s will always be Eurodance for me ❤❤
Same. Though it's really interesting how many other genres were also in mainstream radio rotation. It feels like we had more variety in music, even though eurodance was all the craze.
When I moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles in 1993 I discovered a whole new variety of radio stations playing dance/electronica music that was a departure from the one horse small town of Bakersfield.
The 90s will alwsys be Britpop!
I lived in the US during the early 90's. "Stars" by Simply Red was all over the radio, MTV & VH1. I thought it was a big hit.
Some videos in "heavy" or "medium rotation" on MTV never crossed over to becoming hits on the Billboard Hot 100. It was odd.
It was
I agree with you. Many of these songs were on the radio, on MTV at the time. I think whomever is making these lists are only looking at the pop charts which don't tell the whole story.
@@sampa2nyc The full story would be that the albums that some came from sold well, or a 12" single sold well (but at the time Billboard did not include them on the Hot 100 tabulation) or some of the songs hit the Top 10 on other Billboard charts like the Dance chart.
@@sampa2nyc No but that's what it comes down to ultimately. A song isn't a hit just because it got a lot of airplay on one station, although that obviously helps. If this was a list of unknown songs perhaps the argument would be a fair one.
Some of these songs are really masterpieces
Many of them were popular club hits in the US.
The UK hits has more impact here in Latin America than the US Hits
It's weird when they are songs from american artists: Tori Amos, Cher, Red Hot Chili Peppers and so on... I understand it more when we talk about Eurodance or british artists like Robbie Williams but I remember "Angels" was in Dawson's Creek's soundtrack...
There was a major push by Robbie Williams’ record company to make him a star in the US, but it just never happened. Had a butterfly in China flapped its wings differently, maybe Williams would have been successful in the US while Ed Sheeran or Adele were ignored.
in France we had also better results than the US for some songs :
Maria by Ricky Martin stayed 9 weeks nr 1 of the french charts
Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop) by Scatman was nr 1 also
Goldeneye by Tina Turner peaked Top 3
Strong enough by Cher peaked top 3
Crucify by Tori Amos peaked top 17
Don't You Want Me by Felix peaked top 4
Life by Haddaway peaked top 5
Free by Ultra Naté peaked top 6
Encore une fois by Sash peaked top 7
"Music Sounds Better with You" by Stardust peaked top 10 (a cruel Irony for a french group)
"Insomnia" by Faithless peaked Top 7
Robert Miles is more know by us for Children who stayed several weeks nr1
Encore une Fois only reached #7 in France?
That's disappointing.
@@franohmsford7548 yes ... I was myself surprised caus it was played all tme by the radio. I love also Adelante & Ecuador
Stardust peaked #1, but only... in 2019! You're right, what an irony!
French charts in the 90's are way better than now. I miss these times.
@@docteurwilly totally agree 🤗🤗
Not surprising to see so much Eurodance, but the American artists (Amos, Hawkins, mostly Garbage) who charted in the UK and not in the US are surprising.
In the mid to late 90s, US labels began to release songs to airplay but not commercially in order to make folks buy albums. Billboard's charting rules at that time required commercial availability. When they finally made copies to purchase, it was too late. This caused many songs to pop on the chart for a few short weeks and peak usually somewhere below the top 50.
@@piper998877That's why No Doubt's "Don't Speak" was ineligible for the American Hot 100. If it were able to get in, it would've had insanely long run at the top.
@@piper998877hence you got weird scenarios such as Don't Speak by No Doubt being a UK number 1 when I believe it didn't chart in the US.
Diana Ross, Cher, RHCP, Faith No More - I'd say those are bigger shocks than the three you mentioned :)
P.S. I'm a big fan of Garbage but it's not really shocking that Milk didn't chart on the Hot 100 in the US, neither did Queer, #1 Crush, I Think I'm Paranoid, When I Grow Up, You Look So Fine or The World is Not Enough.
I'd be surprised if many of their later singles broke the Hot 100 either.
@franohmsford7548 Yeah, despite having great songs with videos to match that got good airtime on MTV, Garbage were never really a singles band. At least Only Happy When It Rains got a nice needle drop in Captain Marvel a few years ago!
USA was busy with Mariah Carey and Boyz to Men .
„Boyz II Men and that damn Bodyguard soundtrack”
Mariah Carey, drippy RNB ballads (e.g. Boyz II Men, All 4 One, Toni Braxton) and country. Also, rap did so much better in the USA than in the UK, the likes of Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg etc had songs that spent 15-20 weeks or more on the US chart, whereas they entered and fell fast in the UK.
US WAS DOMINATED BY THE RNB AND HIP HOP
> USA was busy with Mariah Carey and Boyz to Men.
UK was busy with boy bands (East 17, Take That, Boyzone), girl groups (Spice Girls, All Saints, B*Witched) and Britpop (Blur, Oasis, (London) Suede, The Verve, Supergrass).
However: Whitney, Mariah, Celine, Boyz II Men, R. Kelly all had hits in Europe as well.
Actually this is not a true reflection on America's music tastes.
For instance, Roxette had 4 #1 hits in USA ,none in the UK .,which made them more popular Swedish group than Abba.
Alot of good R&B groups that got shut out of UK like T.L C
I noticed the UK likes to embrace mediocre songs by big artists after they've past their hit making prime
I agree about boring artists like Boys ll Men
I was a big Pet Shop Boys fan and own a copy of the Beloved's Happiness 🇺🇸
Masterboy and La Bouche ❤
You don't understand me is probably my favorite Roxette song
Dance music really didn't seem popular in the US? Was huge in the UK in the 90s.
Dance music in the 90s was popular in Europe
The USA is huge and the business men in charge of radio play were in charge of what people heard outside of large American cities Dance music was always popular in large American Cities. Where do you think Disco, New Wave, Hi-NRG, FreeStyle, Techno, House/Acid started
@@pepsiq11965 thank you for the info
@pepsiq11965 As an American who has lived in a large radio market his whole life (Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater in my case), that's correct. The legacy Top 40 radio station here played a crap-ton of dance hits in the '90s whether it was Eurodance, house, breakbeat, techno or freestyle.
@@karstenhanel8481NOT REALLY.I LIVE IN PUERTO RICO.WE ARE PART OF THE US AND THE EURODANCE IN THE ISLAND WAS SUUPER POPULAR AND THE REGGAE WITH DANCEHALL
Sweet Harmony is my jam! I have always wanted it as the theme music for my show! Damn, I wish had lived in the UK in the 90s.
Only real surprises were the American acts that flopped (Tina Turner in particular, Goldeneye done huge numbers at Box Office). For artists outside US, the American market has always been considered the hardest to 'crack'. This may be over-simplifying but I think American culture has always been taught to be mistrusting of anything originating from outside the US and this is why its harder for non-American acts to get over. Consider The Beatles. In the UK, we have the image of them touching down to screaming fans almost burned into us because it was so rare to see a British act that was popular in the US.
"Music Sounds Better With You" is currently being used in a US TV commercial for the department store Kohls!
Many crimes here, I cant believe Love to Hate You and Born Slippy never charted in the USA, I know USA is not too much into electro/dance music however this songs were truly hits!
A song like Born Slippy would never chart in the USA. They have trash taste.
@@MrStGeorgeIllawarra yeah I'm guessing it only got a release due to "Trainspotting". I doubt any other Underworld songs even got that.
These songs were ahead of their time in the US. They are much more appreciated today.
“Go West” may have flopped nationally but it was a smash hit in the gay bars of Minneapolis. I remember dancing to it on top of the bar at The Saloon with my handsome new boyfriend during Pride 1994.
Back in 1993, the video was ranked by Canada's Much Music as the cheesiest video of 1993. And rightly so. It came a mere years after Eastern Europe and even the USSR itself kissed Communism goodbye. So to see Communism saluted in Go West, bad timing indeed! Very bad timing!
@@JonnyTainment I prefer the original by the Village People myself. Nothing cheesy there. lol
@@JonnyTainment ''Go west '' by The Pets Shop Boys was a hit in Canada
During the 1990's while Euro music and Euro dance was big in the UK in the US it was American Rap and Hip Hop.
That's exactly correct. No one else has pointed that out.
The domination of rap on our charts hasn't always served us so well.
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Celebrities debuted in this decade
1990
Mariah carey
Jim Carrey ( tv debuted)
Chris Farley
1991
Reese Witherspoon
Gwyneth Paltrow
Keri Russell
1992
Cameron Diaz
1992
Hillary swank
Katherine Heigl
1993
Brandy
Alicia slivetstone
Britney spears
Justin Timberlake
Christina Aguilera
1994
Brandy ( music debuted)
Lindsay Lohan
Matt LeBlanc ( tv debuted)
1995
Monica
Backstreet boys
1996
Terry crews
Nynsc
1997
Katie Holmes
1998
Britney spears ( music debuted)
Christina Aguilera ( music debuted)
Zooey Deschanel
1999
Mandy Moore
Anne Hathaway
Jesse Eisenberg
Seth Rogan
I wish America would have put West Life and Robbie Williams on the charts.
Of course. Back in the 90's, the pop charts were obsessed with hip hop and gangsta rap. They didn't allow for much variety. Especially since most rock artists didn't bother releasing their catchiest tracks as singles.
Back then if you wanted to make the Hot 100, you had to release it as a single AND get airplay if you wanted to make the Hot 100. No exceptions back then.
Most of those songs did reached #1 in the US 🇺🇸 Billboard Dance Charts though .. 💃🕺 They were mostly popular at the dance clubs
Agreed. "Love to Hate You" was huge in clubs and did well on college radio.
I heard three or four of these at dance clubs in L.A. They were dance music hits but not pop hits. Corona had a big dance hit "Rhythm of the Night" but I never heard "Baby, Baby" played in the clubs. I do remember "Devotion" as well. And Haddaway's big hit here was "What is Love?", not the one mentioned in this video. Sounds like UK was really into that Italo-Disco sound which was mostly relegated to dance clubs in the '90s here.
I’m an American and I vividly remember at least 12 of these songs.
Canadian here. I heard quite a few of these in dance clubs and on MuchMusic, but not on the radio.
Ah yes. The 90s.
When people had the ability to smile and enjoy themselves.
Gen Y and Z don't know they're born!
No Britpop entries, or is that because they charted better on the US Modern Rock Charts or US Alternative Airplay charts? I mean, There's No Other Way by Blur reached No.82 on the Hot 100, and Girls & Boys by them reached No.59. Stutter by Elastica reached No.67, and Connection by them reached No.53.
It's definitely not because of Modern Rock or Alternative Airplay Charts - These videos are pretty clear that a song had to reach the Hot 100 Top 40 to be considered a "hit".
The very first song in the video {Simply Red's Stars} is considered to have flopped in the US even with a Hot 100 ranking of #44.
Song 2 is Blur's only "hit" in the US!
Simply Red should have had a bigger career in the US. I’m still a massive fan.
Think Twice by Celine Dion was one of the biggest hits of the 90s in the UK and a flop on the US.
Brits have way better taste in music than US. I’m Canadian and all of these were great!
I remember hearing many of these songs on USA stations in the 90s in junior high school.. Such an amazing decade of music
A lot of popular nineties songs were never released as physical singles in the US and therefore weren’t eligible for the Hot 100. No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” is a notorious example.
UK has usually better taste than the US, but there are some exceptions like 0:36
The US is nowhere near as receptive to novelty records as us Brits - Scatman got annoying fast!
They may have not been "hits", but I am sure plenty of Americans will recognize these songs. Pop is sometimes inescapable.
Now I am sorry, but there are a couple of songs that were definitely big hits when I was growing up in Texas: Soup Dragons - I'm Free and Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away Now
You should do more videos about flops in the U.S. I often like the flops more than the hits. At least they don't get overplayed.
I'll do more for sure
While BB charts were full of crap 90's grunge bands, UK charts showed the variety of the most wonderful pop, dance , edm hits of the time! Thanks Europe for stay loyal to the music we love!!
Alguien sabe como se llama un tema que dice mas o menos así DADA DI DUMDUM DADA DI DAN DAM canta hombre casi es parecida a Hyperlink de Eifel 65😊
US is really Eurodancephobic😂😂😂
I hate when radio overplays the same songs even if it’s only Eurodance. Top UK hits hit different than the US.
Biggest surprises here are “I Like To Move It” and “Give It Away,” which were ubiquitous in the early nineties. Weird Al Yankovic even parodied the latter with “Bedrock Anthem” on his *Alapalooza* album.
Poor Haddaway came so close to avoiding one-hit wonder status in America. “What Is Love” actually wasn’t that big a hit when it was first released in the US, but it became iconic when it was featured in the “Night at the Roxbury” SNL sketches and movie.
Well a lot a these did well on the Billboard dance chart. Generally Americans weren't big fans of EDM back in the day
I am glad I live in NYC. All of the Dance songs on this video we heard on the Radio. With 90s WKTU and college stations we were lucky to hear all genres of Dance & Alt music. Loved the Manchester groovy dance rock bands, Grunge Music, Techno, House, and Jungle Music and all other Dance Genres heard throughout the city including off topic "The Robin Byrd Show." Some weird sexually charged show with naked Female & Male strippers on TV after midnight
A lot of those songs were played on WBBM-FM in Chicago during the 1990's. However, dance music had to compete with alternative rock, hip-hop, and pop/R&B. In addition, a lot of those acts listed did have at least one hit song in America yet their follow up hits which topped the UK charts stiffed here. I'm also pretty certain that most of the alternative/grunge songs that were massive hits in the USA flopped in the UK, particularly because the UK had its own Britpop movement.
Exactly!❤
@@728huey the grunge and britpop eras happened at different times though. Grunge is early 90s, whereas Britpop is mid-90s for the most part (1994 is the year of the first Oasis album and Blur's "Parklife"). The main competition to grunge was probably the rave scene, which dominated the late 80s and early 90s in the UK.
Nirvana did pretty well here in the UK. Pearl Jam only managed one top 20 hit with "Alive" though. I expect the follow-up video to this with UK flops will show quite a few grunge and RnB tracks not doing well in the UK.
That song from Garbage is haunting, beautiful and downright brilliant so I'm not shocked it didn't chart in the U.S. lol
The single version featured in the video was remixed and featured Tricky of Massive Attack. The original is a bit different: ua-cam.com/video/E13NIDCF_-Q/v-deo.html vs ua-cam.com/video/RJghYrrx8fQ/v-deo.html
Thank you for the research.
1. Many Dance, AAA (Adult
Alternative), and Rock songs were not released as singles in the US.
2. Prior to 1998, these songs were ineligible to make Billboard's Top 100. Eligible songs needed to be released on a physical medium. And they needed to be played on Top 40 stations. Be a 45, not a 12-inch songle.
3. Billboard has many airplay charts for the US. Many of the dance songs made Billboard's dance charts.
4. What charts do the UK have?
5. Dance songs are different. Normally, they were released on 12 inch.
Why americans hate electronic music that much? Like they only got EDM, and that was it, beside that they don´t really appretiate the artistry behind the genre
Very true sadly.
Shocked that RHCP's "Give it Away" was only #73 in US.
Most of these songs were hits here in Brazil too.
@@nah....6151Exactly ! Lots of popular songs here didn’t chart particularly high. We have lots of different charts aside from our general top 100.
The single didn't chart well but the album "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" hit The Top 5 and sold over 7 million copies. Now the second single "Under The Bridge" climb to No. 2 on The Billboard Hot 100.
Faithless only reached 63? Oh, dear...
Faltou Muito som anos 90 ....
Fica Dica para proximas ediçoes
Sunscreem - Love U More
Seal - Crazy
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy (Radio Edit)
General Public - I'll Take You There (1994)
East 17 - Around the World
Another Level Feat.Jay Z - Be Alone No More (C & J Radio Mix)
Andrew Sixty - Let's Make Love (1994)
Double Trouble - Love Don't Live Here Anymore
Sect - Follow You (Crazy For You)
Apache Indian - Boom Shack-A-Lak (1993)
Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper (Heartical Mix) Prêt-Á-Porter
Chaka Demus & Pliers with Jack Radics & Taxi Gang - Twist and Shout (Straight Mix 2) (1992)
10,000 Maniacs - More Than This (Todd Terry Crossover Mix)
Bizarre Inc. - I'm Gonna Get You (Remix by Ricardo Coppini)
Big Fun - Can't Shake The Feeling
Black Box - Strike It Up (Sensitive Edit Mix)
C&C Music Factory - Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll
Electronic - Getting Away With It (Full Length Version)
EMF - Unbelievable
2 Boys - I Won't Let You Down
Def Dames Dope - It's Ok, All Right (Rap Version)
Adventures Of Stevie V. - Dirty Cash (Money Talks) (Sold Out Mix) (7' Edit)
Clio & Kay - Street Groove (Street Edit Mix)
Cut 'n' Move - Get Serious (Cut The Crap Clean Version) 1991
Dimples D. - Sucker D.J. (Ben Liebrand Radio Edit)
Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun
Slizzy Bob - Everybody Loves Sombody
Americans and their lousy taste in music 🤣
Though, tbh , I used to listen to a lot of Mariah Carey, Soul/RnB, Rap & Hip Hop back in the 90s.
They were big hits in Latin America too. But living in US for 15 years I can say Americans don’t dance so much. Not like in other countries where every party has dancing.
8 of the songs did great on the top 40 pop radio airplay charts. Not everybody had money to buy songs. They requested them on the radio.
US had some weird music taste
I love your video descriptions 😝 I subbed partially because of them
As an American, the one I truly can't believe is RHCP's "Give It Away." It was absolutely everywhere and inescapable on the radio and MTV, how was it only a #73 hit??
I'm so glad I grew up in the UK in the 90s.
I was surprised that no songs from The Corrs were included- maybe a little too early?
It was a random selection, there are so many options that I'll need to create several videos
to cover everything.
I noticed it too that European countries embraced the dance/techno songs whereas the boring Americans were stuck listening to Grunge; Hip Hop and Country music.
Many of those songs were played and had great rotation in the other America☺️
Robbie Williams "Angels" was played a lot on Adult Contemporary radio in America.
Garbage "Milk" was played a lot on MTV and Modern Rock radio in America.
That Scatman John song was everywhere in the US, not sure what happened there…also the Cher song, the I like to move it move it song, the Soup Dragons (played constantly) and RHCP- Give It Away? That song was *everywhere* too.
90's in USA was rap, nu metal, grunge rock and pop. While Europe and Latin America were dance music, house, swing rap, freestyle, techno, trance, rap, rock, metal, drum'n'bass, eurodance, grunge, acid house, italo house, EBM, jungle, Detroit Techno, Chicago House, Technopop, nu-metal, rave, psychadellic trance, hardcore breakbeat, balearic beats, Latin House, techno from Valencia, Belgium and Germany and so on so on so on so on... 😎
Was in college in the urban NE of the US during the mid-90s, and some of these songs actually seemed to b bigger than their actual chart position. I think big city radio stations and party DJs liked them, but either they weren’t selling as singles and/or other parts of the country weren’t into them. I think big city tastes prob had more of an effect in the UK. Obviously this was way before streaming.
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I can't believe these amazing songs flopped in the US! Huge hits in the UK and Europe!
As another poster pointed out, this is mainly due to the fact that our charts were dominated by rap during the 90s.
Celebrities high school graduates
1990
The rock
Winona Ryder
Jennifer Garner
Snoop dogg
1991
Jenny Mccarthy
Trya Banks
Millia Jovovich ( early graduation)
Angelina Jolie ( early graduation)
1992
Eva Mendes
1993
Eva Longoria
Tara Reid
1994
Reese witherspoon
Keri Russell
Soeil moon fyre
1995
Kayne west
Lalia ali
1996
Nicole Scherzinger
January Jones
1997
Katie Holmes
John legend
1998
Zooey Deschanel
1999
Channing Tatum
Rachel Bilson
Justin Timberlake
Amy Schumer
The Americans like reality TV karaoke singers, one direction. Little mix,kelly clarkson and Kiss 😂😂😂
2:33 it’s a beautiful song, but I can’t listen to it now. What with it being played at both my parents funerals.
*Tori Amos deserved being big worldwide.* 😕
To be fair most of these are British or European acts so obviously they won't do as well in America 🧐🤓
Brits do it better. I am familiar with many of the songs because they were being played in the clubs.
All of these were popular in Canada
I remember hearing all these songs on the radio. I guess they weren’t massive hits but people liked them.
Flood by sales? Because a lot of these are in my playlist. Some are from soundtracks so…
Great music in the 90's. In this video all are fantastic. It's insane they never were big hits in the U.S. Got to get, it's a fine day, Sweet Harmony, I love to hate You, Go west In youy loving arms" my favourites
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Hello - The Beloved
UK #19
USA n/a
Celebrities born in this decade
1990
Jennifer Lawrence
Kirsten Stewart
Iggy azalea
1991
Austin butler
Emma Roberts
1992
Selena Gomez
Demi Lovato
Miley Cyrus
1993
Ariana Grande
Miranda Cosgrove
1994
Justin Bieber
Dakota fanning
Halsey
1995
Dua Lipa
Doja cat
Megan thee stallion
Gigi Hadid
1996
Dove Cameron
Zendaya
Tom Holland
1997
Camila Cabello
Becky G
1998
Shawn Mendes
Elle fanning
Khalid
1999
Sabrina Carpenter
UK solely counting on physical sales back then not like the US, airwaves impact the chart run with slightly CD sales counting. There was no digital download, people consume music on physical CDs.
It's interesting to see what songs technically flopped in the US but were still well known. Like RHCP's Give it Away didn't make the top 40 but was (and is) still heavily played on rock radio. And those of us into dance music would know quite a few of these songs even though they didn't make the main charts
But then it begs the question: If songs failed are the radios actually 'imposing' on us the taste of the music editors? :0p
Also worth mentioning that until 1998, Billboard didn't count anything besides pure singles sales on the Hot 100, so all the airplay Give It Away got didn't matter in terms of chart success. This was pre-iTunes. CD singles did not sell well at all in the US because they were stupid expensive, and not every record store stocked cassingles after the early 90s. You waited and bought the whole album rather than the single. Or downloaded it on Napster when that came around lol. Another song I can remember that was huge but did not chart was No Doubt's "Don't Speak," which never got a proper single release.
@@ExplorHits well this is why the charts shouldn't include airplay. The Billboard Hot 100 does, I believe, but the official UK one never has (though there were alternatives that did in the 90s). The UK was sales only until 2014.
3:06 'Twilight Zone' by '2 Unlimited' sounds like the original Mortal Kombat movie theme.
I wonder who covered who.
Mortal Kombat one came later
'Twilight Zone' actually sampled Sandra's hit 'Maria Magdalena' opening.
@@ExplorHits OMG, that Sandra's 'Maria Magdalena' opening is it. You really know your stuff. Respect.
About the 'Twilight Zone' sample, do you mean from the original show's opening theme or another track from the show? I just listened to the original TV opening theme but it sounded different. Maybe they just changed it too much for my ears?
I really enjoyed Sandra's 'Maria Magdalena' opening sample. I never knew about that at all.
Some joke that the best thing that came out of the original Mortal Kombat movie was that killer beat theme song. They remixed it for the latest Mortal Kombat movie and it was good as well.
I love the intricacies involved in creating these memorable songs. For example, I learned that the James Bond theme was actually taken from an Indian song about a man with an unfortunate sneeze.
I never would have guessed some wizard could change it to the suave theme of 007 we all know. They turned a funny song to a 'serious' one.
I love finding out that well-known songs were samples of others.
Thank you so much for the info, friend. You are awesome!
@@shmookins As far as I know there's no sample from the TV show theme.
Thanks for watching the video, I'm very happy you enjoyed it
Some memorable bangers and ballads of the 90s. Sadly the US seem to have missed some great songs
I'm surprised there is no mention of Inner City, who had a string of #1 dance music hits in the USA but seemingly never dented the pop charts here. I wonder how they did in the UK. The tracks "Good Life" and "Big Fun" were still being played by American DJs in 2015 even though the group's initial success was in the late '80s! I know because I danced to them numerous times.
Inner City are In the 80s Edition:
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So the US missed most of 90s Eurodance, what a pity /s
At the beginning of the 1990's, the US seemed as on board with eurodance as the UK and the rest of Europe but somewhere along the way, only a handful of tracks were able to crack the US top 40 (What Is Love, Be My Lover, Ooh Ah Just A Little Bit...)
Also Technotronic and Snap!
@@ExplorHits yes, but that was early in the decade. After 1993, eurodance tracks started struggling to chart in the US.
I grew up in France where Eurodance was huge, but the New Jack Swing/R'n'B/Hip Hop scene was so much more interesting to follow.
The US obviously didn't have raves and ecstasy in the nineties 😂
Im from the US and some of these dance songs were popular in the dance charts.
Where’s all the Britpop ? Suede alone had like 7 songs that qualify for this.
Suede's hits in the 90s didn't get any U.S. single release.
@@ExplorHits - well, I know some did, because I have CD singles for “Animal Nitrade” and “Stay Together,” and there’s an alt chart ranking for “Metal Mickey.”
Might the confusion be that the USA records were released as The London Suede instead of Suede? I’ve always thought that odd name was part of why they didn’t find an audience - Suede is otherwise a great British band name, right up there with Wham!, Blur, and Oasis.
En México muchas de estas canciones se popularizaron en la radio pero también por la señal de MTV Latino donde estuvieron en rotación. Las del género House o Eurodance eran mis favoritas en aquellas inolvidables noches de MasterMix como: Go west, Scatman, Life, Baby baby, Strong enough, Born slippy y la de culto, Insomnia y muchísimas mas. 👌
Why?!!!
I did expect Culture Club : I Just Wanna Be Loved (uk 4, nothing in the US, 1998), Tori Amos : Professional Widow (uk 1, nothing in the US, 1997), Bjork : It's Oh So Quiet and HyperBallad (uk 4 and uk 8, nothing in America), things like that...
Well many hits didn't get a release in the U.S., the ones that are included here are out of the first 100 Top-10 singles I've checked so far.
I didnt know that professional widow had go so well at the UK, n⁰1 is a hard one to get
@@luizleal1742 but it was a quiet week in January.
@@simontreal and a remix by Armand van Helden. I'm not sure the original would have done it.
N Trance set you free, still an amazing tune.
Timeless!
Most of these artists are unknown in America.
Goes to show how crape alot of American music is that charts!
It's sometimes really astonishing to realize some songs are virtually unknown in the US which all Europeans over here can sing off the top of their head on every party.
I guess the Americans weren't into EDM
USA is busy with Tupac and Biggie
Apart my dislike for eurodance, there are many songs which are great and deserved better venture in the US. Still, position around number 60 or higher aren't flops for such a market!
I’m very surprised at some of them, not been number one in America