Billboard's top ten singles 1993

[jamesanthony]

These were the top singles in 3 of that magazine's most popular formats. Which songs are the most enjoyable 11 years later? Which have not withstood the test of time?

Hot 100- based on airplay and sales combined

1- I Will Always Love You- Whitney Houston
2- Whoomp! There it Is- Tag Team
3- Can't Help Falling in Love- UB40
4- That's the Way Love Goes- Janet Jackson
5- Freak Me- Silk
6- Weak- SWV
7- Knockin Da Boots- H-Town
8- Dreamlover- Mariah Carey
9- If I Ever Fall in Love- Shai
10-Informer- forgot the white reggae artist if you remember type it in

R&B- based on airplay and sales combined

1- I Will Always Love You- Whitney Houston
2- Knockin da Boots- H-Town
3- That's the Way Love Goes- Janet Jackson
4- Freak Me- Silk
5- If I Ever Fall in Love- Shai
6- Weak- SWV
7- SWV's debut single- forgot the name, if you remember type it in
8- Don't Walk Away- Jade
9- Whoomp! There it Is- Tag Team
10-Hip Hop Hooray- Naughty By Nature

Adult Contemporary- airplay only

1- Love Is- Vanessa Williams/Brian Mcknight
2- I Don't want to Fight- Tina Turner
3- I'll Never Get Over You- Expose
4- I See Your Smile- Gloria Estefan
5- Have I Told You Lately- Rod Stewart
6- A Whole New World- Peabo Bryson/Regina Belle
7- Fields of Gold- Sting
8- Forever in Love- Kenny G
9- River of Dreams- Billy Joel
10-Don't Take Away My Heaven- Aaron Neville

[Cashodeen]

No Duran on this list or the 84 one? These were two of their big years. :cuss:--JK.

Okay... let's see here: hmm, I'm not feeling any of those anymore. That SWV song came on the radio today in fact, and I clicked it off. I think I would do the same for any of those.

[jamesanthony]

Except for Jade I could care less about the hot 100 and r&b top ten songs in this year which were to me collectively much worse than any year in recent memory up to that time. Something changed in the radio world that year as not only did more r&b dominate the pop list, but BAD r&b was doing the dominating (H-Town's record is terrible) None of the 4 songs by blacks in the A/C top ten rose any higher than #22 on the r&b chart even though each of those acts (except Aaron Neville) had enjoyed hits there earlier in the 90s.



1- Love Is- Vanessa Williams/Brian Mcknight- Not wonderful, but not bad
2- I Don't want to Fight- Tina Turner- after I saw the bio film i liked this song more
3- I'll Never Get Over You- Expose- OK but not superb
4- I See Your Smile- Gloria Estefan- OK for her
5- Have I Told You Lately- Rod Stewart- very nice record
6- A Whole New World- Peabo Bryson/Regina Belle- has not aged well to me
7- Fields of Gold- Sting- OK, late singer Eva Cassidy has a nice slow cover
8- Forever in Love- Kenny G- corny
9- River of Dreams- Billy Joel- don't like this. This actually was the biggest hit here with 12 weeks at #1 in this format but it came out in the summer so it's chart run was split between 2 years
10-Don't Take Away My Heaven- Aaron Neville- he doesn't really make any bad records so this is OK

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by Cashodeen
No Duran on this list or the 84 one? These were two of their big years. :cuss:--JK.

Okay... let's see here: hmm, I'm not feeling any of those anymore. That SWV song came on the radio today in fact, and I clicked it off. I think I would do the same for any of those.

Ordinary World was in the year-end top 40 but I forgot what position. All the songs up to #23 were r&B/hip hop or reggae related like Can't Stop Falling in Love. I agree it was a terrible bunch of tunes.

[Faith]

Originally posted by jamesanthony

10-Informer- forgot the white reggae artist if you remember type it in



Snow

[AKA]

I'm very surprised "Heart-Shaped Box" isn't on this list.

[Cashodeen]

Originally posted by jamesanthony
Ordinary World was in the year-end top 40 but I forgot what position. All the songs up to #23 were r&B/hip hop or reggae related like Can't Stop Falling in Love. I agree it was a terrible bunch of tunes.

Yeah, I figured they'd be up there, but nothing could compete with the hip hop and R&B genres that dominated that year. Sucky, sucky, sucky. I did like a lot of that music around that time, but what you have listed didn't really hold up.

[Cashodeen]

Originally posted by AKA
I'm very surprised "Heart-Shaped Box" isn't on this list.

Uh huh. When I first saw this thread, I thought for sure there'd be a better variety of music... including HSB. I knew it would have far too much hip hop and r&b, but it's even more ridiculous than I imagined.

[AKA]

Originally posted by Cashodeen
Uh huh. When I first saw this thread, I thought for sure there'd be a better variety of music... including HSB. I knew it would have far too much hip hop and r&b, but it's even more ridiculous than I imagined.

Yeah. The only songs on the lists I like are "River Of Dreams" and "Fields Of Gold."

[°Bubbly Blonde°]

Originally posted by jamesanthony
Hot 100- based on airplay and sales combined

1- I Will Always Love You- Whitney Houston
2- Whoomp! There it Is- Tag Team
4- That's the Way Love Goes- Janet Jackson
5- Freak Me- Silk
6- Weak- SWV
7- Knockin Da Boots- H-Town
8- Dreamlover- Mariah Carey
9- If I Ever Fall in Love- Shai
10-Informer- forgot the white reggae artist if you remember type it in

R&B- based on airplay and sales combined

1- I Will Always Love You- Whitney Houston
2- Knockin da Boots- H-Town
3- That's the Way Love Goes- Janet Jackson
4- Freak Me- Silk
5- If I Ever Fall in Love- Shai
6- Weak- SWV
7- SWV's debut single- forgot the name, if you remember type it in
8- Don't Walk Away- Jade
9- Whoomp! There it Is- Tag Team
10-Hip Hop Hooray- Naughty By Nature

Adult Contemporary- airplay only

1- Love Is- Vanessa Williams/Brian Mcknight
3- I'll Never Get Over You- Expose
5- Have I Told You Lately- Rod Stewart
6- A Whole New World- Peabo Bryson/Regina Belle
7- Fields of Gold- Sting ahhhhh I remember all of those songs. The debut single by SWV i think was "I'm So Into You"...I cant remember really...I was only 7...

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by °Bubbly Blonde°
ahhhhh I remember all of those songs. The debut single by SWV i think was "I'm So Into You"...I cant remember really...I was only 7...

Yes it was I'm So Into You - thanks. They sounded like urban chipmunks on that one.:D

[vashti1999]

"Right Here" was SWV's debut single, not "I'm So Into You", that was second. After "Weak", Right Here would be re-released as a remixed single sampling Michael Jackson's Human Nature.

[jamesanthony]

The missing SWV single is I'm So Into You, which as I now remember was their second single, but their first hit.

I never heard of Heart Shaped Box. Who is the artist?

[Dean Winchester]

Heart-Shaped Box was Nirvana... however, while it got a lot of airplay in late 1993, especially on rock stations, Geffen didn't release it officially as a single, so it was ineligible to make Billboard's hot 100.

[ONJMagic]

Originally posted by jamesanthony

1- I Will Always Love You- Whitney Houston
10-Informer- Snow
1- Love Is- Vanessa Williams/Brian Mcknight


Those are the only songs I like from this list. I don't even recognize some of them. I must have been asleep when they were hits. :lol: