Hey, look what was on the Billboard Hot 100 twenty years ago today...

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I couldn't have picked a soggier lot. Ugh. Herb Alpert's got the best entry.

1. Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - "Head to toe"
2. Atlantic Star - "Always"
3. Whitney Houston - "I Wanna Dance (With Somebody Who Loves Me)"
4. Genesis - "In Too Deep"
5. Herb Alpert - "Diamonds"
6. Heart - "Alone"
7. Bon Jovi - "Wanted Dead or Alive"
8. Kim Wilde - "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
9. Kenny G - "Songbird"
10. Smokey Robinson - "Just To See Her"

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

What's wrong with "Head to Toe," "Alone," "Wanted Dead or Alive" or "You Keep Me Hangin' On"?

The Good Dr. Bill, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'll accept Kim Wilde if you take Smokey and Genesis.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

christ I'm old.

will, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

5 and 9 I don't remember the tunes of at all, thankfully.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

I could hum you Kenny G's Melody of Death, Ned.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

I don't remember the Herb Alpert song either.

(As far as that Kenny G song is concerned, have you not been to a dentist's office in the last twenty years, Ned?)

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

a Jam-Lewis written/produced number feat. Janet Jackson! It's great!

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

As far as that Kenny G song is concerned, have you not been to a dentist's office in the last twenty years, Ned?)

Ned's teeth, rotten by this week's top ten:

http://www.voanews.com/armenian/images/tv_rotten-teeth_22se.jpg

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" is great.

jaymc, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

It's sad that I prefer David Byrne's cover.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

(As far as that Kenny G song is concerned, have you not been to a dentist's office in the last twenty years, Ned?)

I seem to be blessed with vaguely hipper dentists.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

I assume your elevators play Stereolab too.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I've listened to 5 of these 10 songs within the last week.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

By choice.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

It was 20 years ago today
That Lisa Lisa taught Cult Jam to play

Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

That's the one Whitney song I actually kind of like.

Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

Without "Alone," where would Carrie Underwood be?

Tape Store, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

(Bump)

Has Billboard always had the archives on their website? I'm seeing the archival "search by date" feature at the top of the chart pages now.

Adam J Duncan, Monday, 10 August 2015 11:52 (ten years ago)

Not always.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 August 2015 12:08 (ten years ago)

Surprised to realize that I might be inching up on twenty years of not paying much attention to the contemporaneous Billboard Hot 100. I'm more of an old than I thought.

Those Jorts Are Upsetting (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 August 2015 12:12 (ten years ago)

the full hot 100 archives only went up like a year ago. before then if you tried looking at old charts you could only see the top 10.

a lot of their archives rn are still incomplete (charts are missing prior to ~1985 except for the hot 100 and adult contemporary) but it's still nice to look around.

dyl, Monday, 10 August 2015 15:29 (ten years ago)

That would be the chart for the week of Kendrick Lamar's birth, fwiw.

geoffreyess, Monday, 10 August 2015 20:31 (ten years ago)


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