1999 Music Hits: Teen Pop, Latin Pop, Dance Hits, Hip-Hop, Alternative Rock, Nu-Metal, Pop Rock, and TRL-Era Favorites 1999 music was a bright, loud, end-of-the-century explosion. Teen pop was suddenly massive, Latin pop had a major crossover moment, hip-hop was everywhere, pop-rock still filled radio, dance-pop stayed busy, and nu-metal and rap-rock were getting louder […]
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1999 Billboard Number One Hits: Every Hot 100 Chart-Topper The 1999 Billboard Number One Hits list closed the decade with teen-pop breakthroughs, R&B dominance, Latin-pop crossover, veteran comebacks, and one very smooth Santana revival. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera arrived at No. 1, Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez helped push Latin pop into the U.S.
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1999 History, Facts, and TriviaIn 1999, America spent the entire year worrying about whether every computer on Earth would simultaneously malfunction at midnight on December 31, ushering in a civilization-ending cascade of failures. The Y2K bug turned out to be largely a non-event, the result of thousands of programmers quietly fixing things that nobody noticed
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1999 Music Hits: Top Songs, Radio Favorites, and Pop Classics 1999 music was a last-call-for-the-decade mix of teen pop, adult contemporary, Latin pop, hip-hop, R&B, swing revival, alternative rock, movie soundtrack songs, and dance music. Aerosmith, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Ricky Martin, Céline Dion, Shania Twain, Brandy, Monica, Will Smith, Lauryn Hill, Madonna, Alanis Morissette, and
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Top 25 Songs of the 1990s: Billboard Hits, CD-Era Anthems, R&B Ballads, Dance Crazes, Soundtrack Songs, and Pop-Culture Memory The 1990s were built for huge singles, blockbuster ballads, MTV videos, CD sales, radio countdowns, movie soundtracks, dance crazes, pop-R&B crossovers, hip-hop breakthroughs, and songs that seemed to live forever at school dances. Billboard’s decade-based rankings
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1999 Oscars 71st Academy Awards Winners Announced: March 21, 1999 Held at: Los Angeles County Music Center, Los Angeles, California Host: Whoopi Goldberg Eligibility Year: 1998 Trivia Whoopi Goldberg became the first woman and the first African American to solo host the Oscars. This was her third time hosting but her first time going solo.
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1999 Grammy Award WinnersWinners Announced: February 25, 1999Held at: Radio City Music Hall, New York CityHost: Kelsey GrammerEligibility Year: October 1, 1997 – September 30, 1998TriviaBest New Artist Snub: Despite huge success, Backstreet Boys lost the Best New Artist award to Lauryn Hill.Album of the Year: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill also
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