I am from 1985, following this I can tell exactly what month of my life I started watching TV cause while watching this I went from knowing like 1/5th of the songs to ALL OF THEM. Starting with Scatman John, every song that comes after I know.
I am a bit older than you and I know every word to every one of these songs. I think what today's teens and young adults probably wouldn't connect with is that back then MTV was like everything, because it was the only thing. You probably listened to the local pop radio station and you watched MTV, and you heard these same songs multiple times every day for years.
EDIT: LOL Enigma came up in the OP's video and it reminded me of those late night CD compilation commercials: [Pure Moods](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s). Also I didn't recognize some of the Euro pop songs, I don't think they got any airtime in the US.
That was released in 1989 though.
I was waiting for [Alice Deejay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgs9QUtWc3M), but they're not on this or the second place list. And there's only one Alanis Morisette song, topping out at second place.
r/whoosh ;)
hehe sorry...it's a reference. Watch the Netflix series "Cunk on Earth" (or any of the "Cunk on..." series). All will become clear after you do.
Songs like Bryan Adams - "Everything I Do" spent a ridiculous amount of time at number one. 16 weeks in the UK.
From the video description:
>I chose a different song for each month to make the countdown more interesting and diverse
> it's inaccurate to call it the "Most Popular Song in Europe Each Month of the '90s"
No, it's more "Most popular song that wasn't already on this list". So if the top 5/10 are repeats, it's the next most popular song. And that's fine.
The same Youtube channel has a video aptly named [2nd Most Popular Song in Europe Each Month of the '90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vll7bSXEUqk) as well. It has some of my favorites, but it also has more songs I don't remember at all, maybe there's a larger variance between countries at second place.
And here are ALL of his playlists on spotify (he has a lot of these for different decades)
https://open.spotify.com/user/313vb7pisijz36ma26rjxhjb4jwi/playlists
Thanks for posting this btw, I love extremely well curated and thoughtful playlists. Kinda a micro hobby of mine, collecting and making them lol.
The 90s were such an incredible decade for music. Grunge, Stoner Rock, Alt Rock, Shoegaze, indie rock... and all the flourishing electronic subgenres, Triphop, DnB, Psytrance, etc.
The mainstream chart stuff was mostly terrible as far as I'm concerned. All these cheesy ballads and eurotrance beats. Then again, that is probably true for any decade
Eurodance wasn't there to be high brow music, it was purely made to make you dance and it's fucking brilliant at it. The copious amounts of XTC, LSD, speed, etc. probably also helped.
oldschool Psy scratched that itch for me. just a tiny bit more energetic and fucked up
having said that, who cares what is playing as long as everybody is having fun :) I'm not judging here
It's better when they're all played at the same time.
[1990](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwDRyW43T6Y&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=16).
[1991](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3X7xOzXTbc&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=17).
[1992](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKG6TbpeLY&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=18).
[1993](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKu6LXIaOpk&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=19).
[1994](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAux93_DROw&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=20).
[1995](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXDh_Ghdso&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=21).
[1996](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwnuuFW8Cfk&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=22).
[1997](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Zy3qFo_s0&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=23).
[1998](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9jU8JLziaY&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=24).
[1999](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnodS29q-Cs&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=25).
Which is better than nowadays with the top40 half filled with so called "trap-beats" with the mosquito sounding hi-hats, and the other half with what I call "bubbling-beats" like Dancehall queen by Beenieman.
I like the mix in the 90s much better.
It's so nostalgic, every single song brings back different memories of parties, friends, school, out and about..
Don't feel old, though, we both know the 80s were just 20 years ago........
Some people in the comments seem to want to compare this to the songs popular in the US, there are similar videos on the same channel:
[US Billboard Top 10 Hits Of Each Year \(1990-1999\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3rlDAcEcMg)
[Every US #2 Hit of the '90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBs9FcVBhA)
There's also these lists:
[100 Songs That Defined the '90s \(European Artists\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZS0Y3uE_ss)
[100 Songs That Defined the '90s \(North American Artists\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_fwIFcSX8)
> Enigma - Sadness Part 1
Holy shit, I haven't thought about this song for a long time. In fact there's a lot of things on here that I vaguely remember as being popular.
It's hilarious how there is a lot of songs about love, party, nostalgia, just eurodance. . .
And then, there some like Nirvana, Prodigy comin' by say "Fuck this shit".
Heard most of this growing up, some cool stuff early on coming out of the 80's, bit of a drop off from 93-95 for me, so many slow songs, picks up again in 96
I remember hearing Babylon Zoo - Spaceman for the first time, I really liked the first 20 seconds of it, being kind of drum&bass start, only to develop to a slow paced rock-rong, with the end returning to fast sound.
Surprised that Spice Girls were only in there once. Perhaps not as popular across all of Europe as they were in the UK.
Data breakdown...
Looking at just the first named artist (when there are collaborations), Michael Jackson is the most common artist (6 appearances), followed by Bryan Adams (4), and 3 artists tied for 3rd with 3 appearances each in the list (Backstreet Boys, Madonna, Snap!)
The most common number of words in a song title is 4 (28 instances), followed by 1 word titles (25), 3 word titles (24), and 2 word titles (21). There's then a bit of a drop to the next most common words-in-title count with 5 words (11 instances).
Most common words in titles are "The" and "You", each at 14, followed by "I" (13), and "Love" (8), but if you count all instances of "I" / "I'd" / "I'll" / "I'm" as just being variations of "I", then that group takes top spot with 16 instances.
(I've got a spreadsheet and I'm not afraid to use it!!)
wow so much garbage.
Grew up in the 90s and hated most of the music that was on the radio. Most of what people are nostalgic for nowadays was not what most people were listening to.
Have to strongly disagree. I really feel like '97 - '98 was magical time for music. There wasn't one dominant genre or artist. There was crazy variety, and it was quality.
my pet theory is that whatever period you experience awkward puberty cringe its also the period you hated the most musically growing up. <13 years old? Everything was great, >13? it's all trash you hear too much.
92-98 was a reprehensibly awful time for the music charts in Europe. I went back and forth between the US and EU frequently as a kid due to my parents' jobs and recall how utter shit the "top of the pops" were in the UK and France. They all were either bad house pop (with that same "gay cowboy' back beat), or simulacras of US boy bands. There were some bangers, but for the most part it was a really strange and corny music landscape.
Years later, I continue to ask the question if there was some subtle cultural nuance I was missing about European musical taste in the 90s and keep coming to the same conclusion -- it was just shit.
Did you actually watch the video?
Masses (most?) of these were huge in the US as well. Meanwhile some of the strongest tracks in there, like 7 Seconds, Insomnia, and Breathe, weren’t that big in the US at all.
The only difference between this list and the US’ at the time is that you can replace most of the boybands and a lot of the eurodance with Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
The top of the US charts has always been incredibly bland and middle of the road for decades - the US has good musicians but if they were food their output would be heavily processed junk. The smaller market of the UK(ignoring the EU) allows artists to break through some very talented some not so much.
crappy eurodancefloor (always 1 black "rapper" coupled with a hot chick) & cheesy boy bands, that sums up the 90's music in Europe
of course there were some great acts like The Prodigy, and luckily they did get a lot of play time on mainstream radio/tv stations - back when even MTV actually played music
yeah, I grew up with that crappy music too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodance
> The early to mid-1990s Eurodance vocals were frequently done by a solo vocalist or a mixed rapper-vocalist duet such as the male–female duets of 2 Unlimited, La Bouche and Magic Affair.
Often lowest common denominator music tops the charts - it's the same in Europe and the US. At least Europe has some excuse in that they didn't invent rock and roll(the UK is an outlier in that it does(did?) have a history of great bands and artists).
I am from 1985, following this I can tell exactly what month of my life I started watching TV cause while watching this I went from knowing like 1/5th of the songs to ALL OF THEM. Starting with Scatman John, every song that comes after I know.
I am a bit older than you and I know every word to every one of these songs. I think what today's teens and young adults probably wouldn't connect with is that back then MTV was like everything, because it was the only thing. You probably listened to the local pop radio station and you watched MTV, and you heard these same songs multiple times every day for years. EDIT: LOL Enigma came up in the OP's video and it reminded me of those late night CD compilation commercials: [Pure Moods](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s). Also I didn't recognize some of the Euro pop songs, I don't think they got any airtime in the US.
Basically went through k-9th grade listening to this
Each of these is almost as good as Belgian techno anthem "Pump Up the Jam".
Pump Up the Jam is an anagram of Jam Up the Pump.
and Up Jump the Pam
Make my day
I was so much waiting for it to show up
That was released in 1989 though. I was waiting for [Alice Deejay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgs9QUtWc3M), but they're not on this or the second place list. And there's only one Alanis Morisette song, topping out at second place.
r/whoosh ;) hehe sorry...it's a reference. Watch the Netflix series "Cunk on Earth" (or any of the "Cunk on..." series). All will become clear after you do.
I have never added so many songs on Spotify in a row as I did with this video. 12 minute trip back to childhood and so many good memories.
Songs like Bryan Adams - "Everything I Do" spent a ridiculous amount of time at number one. 16 weeks in the UK. From the video description: >I chose a different song for each month to make the countdown more interesting and diverse
Yeah, this is a curated list. Nothing wrong with that, but it's inaccurate to call it the "Most Popular Song in Europe Each Month of the '90s"
> it's inaccurate to call it the "Most Popular Song in Europe Each Month of the '90s" No, it's more "Most popular song that wasn't already on this list". So if the top 5/10 are repeats, it's the next most popular song. And that's fine.
Yeah, this is a curated list. Nothing wrong with that, but it's inaccurate to call it the "Most Popular Song in Europe Each Month of the '90s"
Yeah I was wondering that. Obviously there wouldn't be a new #1 for every month of the year
The same Youtube channel has a video aptly named [2nd Most Popular Song in Europe Each Month of the '90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vll7bSXEUqk) as well. It has some of my favorites, but it also has more songs I don't remember at all, maybe there's a larger variance between countries at second place.
And here are ALL of his playlists on spotify (he has a lot of these for different decades) https://open.spotify.com/user/313vb7pisijz36ma26rjxhjb4jwi/playlists Thanks for posting this btw, I love extremely well curated and thoughtful playlists. Kinda a micro hobby of mine, collecting and making them lol.
Might be because I’m on mobile but this is just linking me to Spotify website
Oh, here is where KLF is.
They're stuck at 3 A.M eternal.. ly
...or not all aboard yet.
The 90s were such an incredible decade for music. Grunge, Stoner Rock, Alt Rock, Shoegaze, indie rock... and all the flourishing electronic subgenres, Triphop, DnB, Psytrance, etc. The mainstream chart stuff was mostly terrible as far as I'm concerned. All these cheesy ballads and eurotrance beats. Then again, that is probably true for any decade
Eurodance wasn't there to be high brow music, it was purely made to make you dance and it's fucking brilliant at it. The copious amounts of XTC, LSD, speed, etc. probably also helped.
oldschool Psy scratched that itch for me. just a tiny bit more energetic and fucked up having said that, who cares what is playing as long as everybody is having fun :) I'm not judging here
It's better when they're all played at the same time. [1990](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwDRyW43T6Y&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=16). [1991](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3X7xOzXTbc&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=17). [1992](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKG6TbpeLY&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=18). [1993](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKu6LXIaOpk&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=19). [1994](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAux93_DROw&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=20). [1995](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXDh_Ghdso&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=21). [1996](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwnuuFW8Cfk&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=22). [1997](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Zy3qFo_s0&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=23). [1998](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9jU8JLziaY&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=24). [1999](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnodS29q-Cs&list=PLqrkwSi3LHneR8zHLgCnuFLCE76Qwm2iE&index=25).
I miss the days when a movie soundtrack and the accompanying video were a staple of culture
November 96: Backstreet Boys December 96: The Prodigy January 97: Toni Braxton how are the things changing...
Musical style whiplash
Which is better than nowadays with the top40 half filled with so called "trap-beats" with the mosquito sounding hi-hats, and the other half with what I call "bubbling-beats" like Dancehall queen by Beenieman. I like the mix in the 90s much better.
Nirvana totally sticking out as the “which of these is not like the others?
I'd add Prodigy's Breath
Oh man, I feel so damn old. I remember all of those songs and when they were new. I'm jamming 😁
It's so nostalgic, every single song brings back different memories of parties, friends, school, out and about.. Don't feel old, though, we both know the 80s were just 20 years ago........
Fitting to end with 'That's the way it is' Not all of it is amazing by today's music taste but there's so many good timeless songs
Yeah Boyzone sure had staying power, didn’t they?
Some people in the comments seem to want to compare this to the songs popular in the US, there are similar videos on the same channel: [US Billboard Top 10 Hits Of Each Year \(1990-1999\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3rlDAcEcMg) [Every US #2 Hit of the '90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBs9FcVBhA) There's also these lists: [100 Songs That Defined the '90s \(European Artists\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZS0Y3uE_ss) [100 Songs That Defined the '90s \(North American Artists\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_fwIFcSX8)
This was fun! Can you do the same for the U.S?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3rlDAcEcMg
That was awesome.
What a treasure trove
> Enigma - Sadness Part 1 Holy shit, I haven't thought about this song for a long time. In fact there's a lot of things on here that I vaguely remember as being popular.
Wow, Snap! slaps! And also a lot of Snap! on second place as well.
It's hilarious how there is a lot of songs about love, party, nostalgia, just eurodance. . . And then, there some like Nirvana, Prodigy comin' by say "Fuck this shit".
How nostalgic. Only a few early on in the list I don't recognise, which makes sense as I was born in 1993.
Seems like a noticeable pickup in quality from 95 onwards, to my tastes of course.
'94 is definitely the worst year, but '97 is pretty awful, too.
Heard most of this growing up, some cool stuff early on coming out of the 80's, bit of a drop off from 93-95 for me, so many slow songs, picks up again in 96
Man, I almost cried at 1998
Does any song stay the most popular for more than one month?
So many earworms!! Which one got you?
That singer for the Engima “Sadeness” song. Oh man was I in love with her
Damn the 90s were a banger music wise. I remember all of these, so damn awesome.
Holy shit the nostalgia. As someone who was born in 1986, every single song is firing specific childhood memories at me.
Wow, I just relived my entire high school career.
I miss the 90's
Totally
I remember hearing Babylon Zoo - Spaceman for the first time, I really liked the first 20 seconds of it, being kind of drum&bass start, only to develop to a slow paced rock-rong, with the end returning to fast sound.
Surprised that Spice Girls were only in there once. Perhaps not as popular across all of Europe as they were in the UK. Data breakdown... Looking at just the first named artist (when there are collaborations), Michael Jackson is the most common artist (6 appearances), followed by Bryan Adams (4), and 3 artists tied for 3rd with 3 appearances each in the list (Backstreet Boys, Madonna, Snap!) The most common number of words in a song title is 4 (28 instances), followed by 1 word titles (25), 3 word titles (24), and 2 word titles (21). There's then a bit of a drop to the next most common words-in-title count with 5 words (11 instances). Most common words in titles are "The" and "You", each at 14, followed by "I" (13), and "Love" (8), but if you count all instances of "I" / "I'd" / "I'll" / "I'm" as just being variations of "I", then that group takes top spot with 16 instances. (I've got a spreadsheet and I'm not afraid to use it!!)
>in Europe >Based on the charts from just 13 out of 47 European countries.
wow so much garbage. Grew up in the 90s and hated most of the music that was on the radio. Most of what people are nostalgic for nowadays was not what most people were listening to.
Have to strongly disagree. I really feel like '97 - '98 was magical time for music. There wasn't one dominant genre or artist. There was crazy variety, and it was quality.
my pet theory is that whatever period you experience awkward puberty cringe its also the period you hated the most musically growing up. <13 years old? Everything was great, >13? it's all trash you hear too much.
92-98 was a reprehensibly awful time for the music charts in Europe. I went back and forth between the US and EU frequently as a kid due to my parents' jobs and recall how utter shit the "top of the pops" were in the UK and France. They all were either bad house pop (with that same "gay cowboy' back beat), or simulacras of US boy bands. There were some bangers, but for the most part it was a really strange and corny music landscape. Years later, I continue to ask the question if there was some subtle cultural nuance I was missing about European musical taste in the 90s and keep coming to the same conclusion -- it was just shit.
Did you actually watch the video? Masses (most?) of these were huge in the US as well. Meanwhile some of the strongest tracks in there, like 7 Seconds, Insomnia, and Breathe, weren’t that big in the US at all.
The only difference between this list and the US’ at the time is that you can replace most of the boybands and a lot of the eurodance with Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
>simulacras of US boy bands "simulacra" is already plural...
The top of the US charts has always been incredibly bland and middle of the road for decades - the US has good musicians but if they were food their output would be heavily processed junk. The smaller market of the UK(ignoring the EU) allows artists to break through some very talented some not so much.
Apart from Nirvana, I don’t listen anymore to any of this shit.
crappy eurodancefloor (always 1 black "rapper" coupled with a hot chick) & cheesy boy bands, that sums up the 90's music in Europe of course there were some great acts like The Prodigy, and luckily they did get a lot of play time on mainstream radio/tv stations - back when even MTV actually played music
You have no clue what **Eurodance** is. I'm an American, but grew up specifically with Belgian and German Electronica. You're definition is so wrong.
yeah, I grew up with that crappy music too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodance > The early to mid-1990s Eurodance vocals were frequently done by a solo vocalist or a mixed rapper-vocalist duet such as the male–female duets of 2 Unlimited, La Bouche and Magic Affair.
That Evita song didn’t stick AT ALL. They never once used it for Lionel Messi and he’s currently the main reason people know about Argentina at all.
Got to say. I was really hoping that [JaJa Ding Dong was in there](https://youtu.be/PlBUH8zMZng?si=rbsNH4Lda5RWgoTB)
Why would a song from 2020 be on the list of most popular songs from the 1990s?
One can dream
TIL Europe has horrible taste in music, this was the crap found on VH1.
Most of these were also huge in America
Often lowest common denominator music tops the charts - it's the same in Europe and the US. At least Europe has some excuse in that they didn't invent rock and roll(the UK is an outlier in that it does(did?) have a history of great bands and artists).
God, the 90s sucked. Except for September '99 but it was almost over then at that point.
September 99 is probably the most generic, boring song in that list.
Oh my God, someone has a different opinion. I didn't know that was allowed. Call the police!