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List Of Number-one Dance Singles Of 1989 (U.S.)
These are the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance/Disco Club Play and 12 Inch Singles Sales number-one hits of 1989. See also *1989 in music *List of number-one dance hits (United States) *List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart References {{US Dance Chart 1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ru ... 1989 record charts 1989 in American music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duran Duran
Duran Duran () are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer and bassist Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor. With the addition of drummer Roger Taylor the following year the band went through numerous personnel changes before May 1980, when they settled on their most famous line-up by adding guitarist Andy Taylor and lead vocalist Simon Le Bon. When Duran Duran emerged they were generally considered part of the New Romantic scene. Innovators of the music video, Duran Duran were catapulted into the mainstream with the introduction of the 24-hour music channel MTV. The group was a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. Photographer Denis O'Regan, who captured the band during their 1984 tour, commented "Duran Duran in America was like Beatlemania." The band's first major hit was " Girls on Film" (1981), from their self-titled debut studio album, the popularity of which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Is Acid
"This Is Acid", also known by its full title, "This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze)", is a song by Chicago house music DJ and producer Maurice Joshua, who recorded the track under his first name "Maurice". It reached number one on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play chart in April 1989 and stayed there for two weeks. The song contains spoken lyrics performed by male singer "Hot Hands" Hula Mahone. The lyrics introduce the listener to the acid house, Chicago acid house sound. "This Is Acid (A New Dance Craze)" is Joshua's only hit single, but he continued as a producer and remixer, winning a Grammy Award in 2004 for his remix of Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love". Versions The original 4:56 version—made with only a Roland TR-808 drum machine, Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer, reverb, and vocals—was first released as a B-side track on the Maurice Joshua with Hot Hands Hula single "I Gotta Big Dick" in 1988, and only Mahone and producer Lidell Townsell were given writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli were a German-French R&B duo from Munich. The group was founded by Frank Farian in 1988 and consisted of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. Their debut album, ''All or Nothing'' in Europe, reconfigured as '' Girl You Know It's True'' in the United States, achieved international success and brought them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist on 21 February 1990. They became one of the most popular pop acts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with millions of records sold. However, their success turned to infamy when it was discovered that Morvan and Pilatus did not sing any of the vocals on their music releases. They ended up returning their Grammy Award for Best New Artist. They recorded a comeback album in 1998 titled ''Back and in Attack'', but its release was cancelled after Pilatus died at the age of 32. Beginnings, 1988–1989 Rob Pilatus met Fabrice Morvan during a dance seminar at a club in Munich. The two bonded over their similar experiences growing up in Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl You Know It's True
''Girl You Know It's True'' is a 1989 album that served as the North American debut of German contemporary R&B duo Milli Vanilli. It is a version of Milli Vanilli's Europe-only release ''All or Nothing'' reconfigured and repackaged for the US market. The album was a major success in the USA, producing five singles that entered the top 5 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, three of which reached the top position. In January 1990, ''Girl You Know It's True'' was certified 6× platinum by the RIAA after spending seven weeks atop the ''Billboard'' Top 200. Additionally, the album spent 41 weeks within the top 10 of the ''Billboard'' Top 200 and 78 weeks within the charts overall. The album was also certified Diamond in Canada, denoting shipments of over one million units. The success of the album earned the duo a Grammy Award for Best New Artist on February 22, 1990. On November 16, 1990, ''Los Angeles Times'' freelancer Chuck Philips reported that the group, which consisted of repute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Young Cannibals
Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) was a British pop rock band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1984, by bassist David Steele (musician), David Steele, guitarist Andy Cox (both formerly of The Beat (British band), The Beat), and singer Roland Gift (formerly of the Akrylykz). Their self-titled 1985 debut album contained "Johnny Come Home" and a cover of "Suspicious Minds", two songs that were top 40 hits in the UK, Canada, Australia, and many European countries. Their 1989 album, ''The Raw & the Cooked (album), The Raw & the Cooked'', topped the UK, US, Australian, and Canadian album charts, and contained their two Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number ones: "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing (Fine Young Cannibals song), Good Thing". In 1990, the band won two Brit Awards: Best British Group, and Best British Album (for ''The Raw & the Cooked''). Their name came from the 1960 film ''All the Fine Young Cannibals'' starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. History The group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Drives Me Crazy
"She Drives Me Crazy" is a song by English group Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1988 as the first single from their second and final album, '' The Raw & the Cooked'' (1989). Peaking at No. 5 on the British singles chart in January 1989, it is the band's highest charting single in their native UK. The single proved an even bigger hit in the US, topping the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on 15 April 1989 for one week and becoming the first of two chart-topping singles for the band on that chart. "She Drives Me Crazy" also reached No.1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart, as well as in countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, New Zealand and Spain. It reached the top 3 on several European charts including Belgium, West Germany, Iceland, Ireland and Switzerland. In 2018, ''Time Out'' magazine listed "She Drives Me Crazy" at No. 28 in their countdown of ''The 50 best '80s songs''. Background and recording Co-produced by Prince associate David Z, the trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kon Kan
Kon Kan is a Canadian synthpop project conceived and formed in 1988 by Barry Harris in Toronto, Ontario. Kon Kan were awarded a 1990 Juno for the song "I Beg Your Pardon" and nominated for a 1991 Juno Award for the single " Puss N' Boots/These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". History Band name Musician Barry Harris said the name "Kon Kan" is a play on the term " Can Con", the Canadian radio regulation that states radio stations must play Canadian artists at least 30% of the time. Harris named the group "Kon Kan" as a subtle advertisement to Canadian stations that he was Canadian. However, he said the move didn't work, and he wasn't noticed by the stations until Atlantic Records signed them. "I Beg Your Pardon" "I Beg Your Pardon" was inspired in part by both the Pet Shop Boys hit single " Always on My Mind" and an increasingly prevalent use of sampling by artists such as Public Enemy, M/A/R/R/S and Coldcut. The track sampled Lynn Anderson's 1971 hit " (I Never Promised You a) Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Beg Your Pardon
"I Beg Your Pardon" is the debut single by Canadian synth-pop duo Kon Kan, from their 1989 debut album ''Move to Move''. It was written by Kon Kan member Barry Harris (Canadian musician), Barry Harris, and American musician Joe South, who is credited due to the song's Sampling (music), sampling of Lynn Anderson's 1970 hit "Rose Garden (song), Rose Garden", which he wrote. "I Beg Your Pardon" also contains samples of other songs, including GQ (band), GQ's "Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)", Silver Convention's "Get Up and Boogie (song), Get Up and Boogie", and Spagna's "Call Me (Spagna song), Call Me". Music critic James Masterton wrote that the song was one of the first big club hits to contain prominent samples. The song was a hit song, hit, reaching the top twenty in a number of countries including the UK Singles Chart, UK and Billboard Hot 100, U.S., where it peaked at numbers 5 and 15, respectively. Barry Harris said that the song was "the question to Lynn Anderson's 'Rose Garden (so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten City
Ten City (derived from ''intensity'') is an American, Chicago, Illinois-based R&B and house music act, that enjoyed a number of club hits and Urban radio hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was one of the first exponents of deep house. Biography Formerly known as Ragtyme, the group comprised vocalist Byron Stingily, guitarist Herb Lawson and keyboardist Byron Burke and were augmented by producer Marshall Jefferson. The group was signed by Atlantic Records and released the album ''Foundation'' in 1989, which became the group's only album to cross over, peaking at No. 49 on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Ten City is best known for the singles "Devotion", "Right Back to You" and " That's the Way Love Is," which hit No. 1 on the US dance chart and No. 8 on the UK Top 40 in 1989. Stingily, who left the group and became a successful solo artist, re-recorded the song and brought it back to No. 1 on the US dance chart in 1999. In 2021, Stingily teamed up with produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That's The Way Love Is (Ten City Song)
"That's the Way Love Is" is a song by Chicago-based dance trio Ten City, released in 1989 as a single from their debut album, ''Foundation'' (1989). The song reached number eight in the UK and number eighteen in West Germany, and was also the group's highest charting single on both the ''Billboard'' R&B and dance charts in the US. It peaked at number twelve on the Hot R&B Singles chart, and number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. ''Rolling Stone'' ranked "That's the Way Love Is" number 165 in their list of "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time" in 2022. Release The single release featured two main versions - on most releases, an acid house mix by Steve "Silk" Hurley (variously titled either "Deep House Mix" or "Acieeed Mix") was the A-side, while a string-led mix by Timmy Regisford, named the "Underground Mix", appeared on the B-side. Both mixes also had corresponding radio edits and dub versions. Critical reception Tim Jeffery from ''Record Mirror'' wrote, "The time has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will To Power (band)
Will to Power is an American dance-pop group that originated in South Florida in the mid-1980s founded by Miami producer Bob Rosenberg. The group recorded a number of hit singles on the ''Billboard'' dance and pop charts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably " Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley", a medley of 1970s hits by Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd that reached the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in December 1988. The group has also two number one singles on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play, "Say It's Gonna Rain" and "Fading Away", and continues to create music into the 21st century and are currently performing live (Bob Rosenberg and Elin Michaels). Biography The early years Bob Rosenberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria Mann, was a pop singer who had two Top 40 pop hits in the mid-1950s on the Sound Records label, " Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" and "Teen Age Prayer". After attending school in Florida, Rosenberg became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
