This how the Billboard charts looked back in 1993

[Dettol]

Are you dudes really just learning that hip hop didnt get radio play in the 90s?

^Word.

I mean it started to get heavy radio play in early 90s due to the rise and popularity of gangsta rap. But Its not the same amount of radio play that is much more dominant today in pop music/top 40. Different time periods.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[unit321]

Where in the fukk is the lyrical real shyt rap.
Where is it?
There was never any balance

It wasn't mainstream enough.
But if you went to Record Town or whatever music store, you could find rap music in the R&B section. No lie. You know Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men, All-4-One, Toni Braxton, and Run D.M.C..... it was all the same to white people.

 

[unit321]

To think Pharrell wrote Teddy Rile's verse and now dude smashed the charts this year with Daft Punk and Robin Thicke!

At least he doesn't look old.

 

[unit321]

90's music was screwed up but it all started getting weird in the late 80s. You had two totally different songs in the top 2. Guns n Roses Sweet Child o Mine and Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry Be Happy. You couldn't listen to a top-40/pop station without hearing music you liked and/or music you hated in the same hour.
90s was the end of guitar/glam rock and the beginning of grunge and indie/alt rock. There was more rap music getting into top 40. And with Snow's rise to the top with his hit Informer, that might be the unofficial genesis of the Canadian wigger. (okay, that was a joke)

 

[MartyMcFly]

There was also a lot more rebellion during that era from a lot of groups, not just rap groups, who didn't want to crossover. The hip hop artists that did sell, a lot of them did in spite of the charts and just maintained heavy radio play in urban markets and urban clubs. Rap didn't really takeover the charts until the late 90s

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

***snorts 29seconds**

and nikkas tried to argue with me sayin drake couldnt have made it in the 90s

Make it what lane? singing,fukk no. Rapping fukk no alllso. A hit maybe.celebrated star NAW

 

[GetInTheTruck]

whitney used to run shyt man

 

[#1 pick]

1 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You - YouTube
2 Tag Team Whoomp! (There It Is)
Tag Team - Whoomp! (There It Is) - YouTube
3 UB40 Can't Help Falling In Love
UB40 CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE - YouTube
4 Janet Jackson That's The Way Love Goes
Janet Jackson - That's the Way Love Goes - YouTube
5 Silk Freak Me
Silk - Freak Me (HD) - YouTube
6 SWV Weak
SWV - Weak - YouTube

Whitney

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

born in 84 so i remember a lot these being on the radio AND TV

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Man we fell the fukk off


Save us based usher

 

[Lord Mecca]

Ayo, I legit love most of those songs with no genre bias. This was such a simpler time...

Real shyt.

there was really no need to look for something specific... you put in a Dance Mix in '92 your guaranteed bangers whether you into pop or rap.

Good shyt

 

[a murda]

the nikka Robert kelly still on the charts today .....................

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Even POP music went harder back then

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Whoop there it is, rump shaker and informer all in front of a classic like g thang. I hope this will help put to rest the thought some of these nikkas have that only classics were popping in the 90's. It was just as much bull shyt or more than it is now, y'all just try to tune it out

But back then, bullshyt was the minority, not the majority like it is now.


There was always songs that white folks got attached to and started playing them at sporting events, in commercials, and shyt like that.


But even then, the bullshyt songs back then>>>>>>the bullshyt songs today.Even the bullshyt was higher quality