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See
All 75 of PCM's 1999 Top Songs Here! |
| 1. |
All
Star - Smash Mouth
The longevity for this song, in addition to the catchy
melody and refrainn, could have been that the song was
featured in the films Shrek, Rat Race,
Mystery Men and Digimon: The Movie. |
| 2. |
Man!
I Feel Like A Woman - Shania Twain
Shania, Eilleen Regina Edwards to her friends, had the
biggest selling album by a female ever with the release
of Come On Over, featuring Man! I Feel Like
A Woman. This crossover album was a country and
pop hit, selling over 40,000,000 copies. I Feel Like
A Woman has become a girls' night out anthem. |
| 3. |
Mambo
No. 5 - Lou Bega
Originally written and recorded by Perez Prada in 1952,
Lou re-wrote some of the lyrics and updated the music
for modern pop music ears. The girls mentioned in the
song include: Angela, Pamela, Sandra, Rita, Monics,
Erica, Tina, Mary and Jessica. |
| 4. |
I
Need To Know - Marc Anthony
1999 was the year of the Latino Pop Star, as you can
tell by this list. The cha-cha style beat of this song
crossed several generations, and any mobile DJ can tell
that this song will do the job of taking that "cha-cha"
request without 'offending' the younger partiers. |
| 5. |
Smooth
- Santana (with Rob Thomas)
This team-up, which is 1999's Grammy Song of the Year
from 1999's Album of the year, Supernatural,
was the song everybody heard everywhere they went in
the summer of '99. It held the Billboard Hot 100 number
one position for twelve weeks. |
| 6. |
Livin'
La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
The former member of the original Menudo released Livin'
La Vida Loca as the first single from his self-titled
album. It is his signature song in the U.S., but he
is probably best know world-wide for Cup of Life,
which was used as the theme the 2000 Olympics. |
| 7. |
Canned
Heat - Jamiroquai
Better known as the Napolean Dynamite dance song,
it actually only reached Billboard position # 58, with
very little airplay. Canned Heat, along with
Louie Armstrong's What a Wonderful World, show
what the inclusion in a movie soundtrack can do for
a song. |
| 8. |
Believe
- Cher
Cher first hit Billboard's number one spot with Sonny
with the immortal I Got You Babe in July 1965.
She repeated that position with Believe in 1999,
which gave her the record for longest span between #1
hits. At age 52, Cher was also the oldest person ever
to hold the Billboard number one position, with Believe.
The Beach Boys own the official artist record
with Good Vibrations (1966) and Kokomo (1988). |
| 9. |
Summergirls
- LFO
"...You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch..."
caught the ears of a generation. Mix a bunch of subtle
Pop Culture references like Alex P. Keaton,
New Edition, Kevin Bacon and Footloose,
New Kids On The Block, The Beastie Boys,
Larry Bird, William Shakespeare, Michael
J Fox and Paul Revere with soft pop, and
you've created a summertime classic. |
| 10. |
We
Like To Party - The VengaBoys
Six Flags Amusement Parks have featured this song in
commercials for years, and although it barely cracked
the Billboard Top 30, it has become a party classic.
BTW - VengaBoys is pronounced BengaBoys |
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Why didn't Christina Aguilera make the 1999 top ten
list? Christina is arguably the best musical talent
to come out from 1999, but she seems to have gotten
better as she's aged. Santana, Ricky, Shania and the
others "peaked" this year. As talented as
she is, we just haven't gotten the votes
and/or suggestions to help her crack the the list
for 1999. |
| ...see
the rest of the 1999 Most Requested Song List here |
| 1999
Quick Trivia: |
| 1999's
Best Picture Oscar Winner: American Beauty |
| 1999's
Grammy For Best New Artist: Christina Aguilera |
| 1999's
Grammy Record of the Year: Smooth - Santana featuring
Rob Thomas |
| More
1999 Trivia at Pop-Culture.us |
