1990 Top 100 Songs [exclusive] Here

🎶 Based on Billboard's 1990 Year-End Hot 100 chart.

Billboard’s Year-End Hot 100 for 1990 is a wild ride. Let’s break down the top 20 and give a nod to the forgotten gems that made up the rest of this iconic list. 1. "Hold On" – Wilson Phillips The unofficial anthem of 1990. When Chynna, Carnie, and Wendy told you to "hold on for one more day," you believed them. It was the biggest-selling single of the year and the perfect blend of California sunshine and heartbreak harmony. 1990 top 100 songs

Prince wrote it, but Sinéad owned it. With her shaved head, single tear, and devastatingly raw voice, she turned this into the saddest (and most beautiful) #1 of the decade. 🎶 Based on Billboard's 1990 Year-End Hot 100 chart

Shedding the hairspray for a western duster, Bon Jovi went solo for the Young Guns II soundtrack. It proved that beneath the big hair was a serious songwriter. It was the biggest-selling single of the year

1990 was a musical fork in the road. On one side, the shiny, synth-driven pop of the late ‘80s was still holding court. On the other, grunge was sharpening its axes in Seattle, and hip-hop was becoming the voice of a new generation. It was the year of the Vanilla Ice high-top fade, the MC Hammer parachute pants, and the birth of the power ballad that could bring a stadium to tears.

The boy band craze was at its absolute peak. NKOTB told us to take it "step by step," and millions of screaming teenage girls happily obliged.

"That's a rough, rugged and raw..." This song single-handedly invented "new jack swing" for the masses. If you weren't trying to do the running man to this bassline, were you even alive in 1990?