SPIN: Best R&B Single of the '90s: 1997

[dora_da_destroyer]

You 2 and op are smoking that bad stuff. Return Of The Mack was 1996.

dropped in the UK in 96, but didn't become a hit in the US until 97

"Return of the Mack" is a song written and recorded by the German-born British R&B singer Mark Morrison. It was released in the United Kingdom in March 1996 and topped the UK Singles Chart a month later. It reached the #1 spot on the UK Singles Chart and #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early-Summer 1997 for one week behind "MMMBop" by Hanson, and went Platinum.[1]

 

[daboywonder2002]

It's '97... times are changing aaagain... what was the best single?

Is it ok if I go outside your list? I wanna vote for Erykah badu- next lifetime

 

[smokeurobinson]

dropped in the UK in 96, but didn't become a hit in the US until 97

I was bumping that song on my walkman fall 96 while working as a messenger in midtown manhattan.

Who am I gonna believe...U or my memories?

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I was bumping that song on my walkman fall 96 while working as a messenger in midtown manhattan.

Who am I gonna believe...U or my memories?

song was out, so you were ahead of the curve, but wasn't a hit yet

gotta list the year the song had impact IMO, not just it's release date

 

[smokeurobinson]

song was out, so you were ahead of the curve, but wasn't a hit yet

gotta list the year the song had impact IMO, not just it's release date

Song was all over the radio in nyc fall 96.

 

[Tunez]

Usher

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

song was out, so you were ahead of the curve, but wasn't a hit yet

Breh, I hate that song to this day because of how much they played that shyt out here in the Tri-State.....on ALL the 'Urban' radio stations, MTV, Video Music Box, etc. Couldn't go no damned where without hearing that damned song. I don't know what qualifies a track to be a hit to you, but when you have to change radio stations more than 4 times in one hour to get away from a song...............

Oh, yeah, I voted for Erykah.......but I liked 'Appletree' more than 'On & On'.​

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Song was all over the radio in nyc fall 96.

i can't remember if it was on the radio out here back in the fall, but i do remember that being a song before my 7th grade year and that would be 97.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Breh, I hate that song to this day because of how much they played that shyt out here in the Tri-State.....on ALL the 'Urban' radio stations, MTV, Video Music Box, etc. Couldn't go no damned where without hearing that damned song. I don't know what qualifies a track to be a hit to you, but when you have to change radio stations more than 4 times in one hour to get away from a song...............

Oh, yeah, I voted for Erykah.......but I liked 'Appletree' more than 'On & On'.​

appletree wasn't a single tho...


BTW, Erykah Badu needs more props. She's hands down one of the dopest artists and Baduizm was simply special (tho I feel that way about all her music)

 

[TrebleMan]

G.H.ET.T.O.U.T by Changing Faces should also be an option.

I went with Return of the Mack though.

The summer from this year Still had the music from 1996 on heavy rotation and these classics that were popping out.

Timbaland's camp starting punching out, double albums, No Way Out, Men In Black, etc.

 

[Wacky D]

I don't remember "return of the mack" on the radio much here at all.

 

[Taadow]

Oh, yeah, I voted for Erykah.......but I liked 'Appletree' more than 'On & On'.​

"Appletree" is my favorite cut off that album (by a hair over "Afro"), and that's saying something because that whole mugg was a slapper.








OP...where is:

"Nobody"
"My Love Is The Shhh!"
"I Belong To You (Everytime I See Your Face)"
"What About Us?"
"Let's Get Down"

???

 

[lightskin jermaine]

This was hard but i'd have to go with Usher. I remember getting that CD as a youngin' and playing the fck out of it

 

[Wacky D]

"Appletree" is my favorite cut off that album (by a hair over "Afro"), and that's saying something because that whole mugg was a slapper.

OP...where is:

"Nobody"
"My Love Is The Shhh!"
"I Belong To You (Everytime I See Your Face)"
"What About Us?"
"Let's Get Down"

???

the bolded were '98,

I think that total song was too.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Dru Hill of course