quinta-feira, 23 de abril de 2015

A Decade Back: 1995 in Music

1995 Grammy Awards

The year 1995 is a very prolific year in the music industry.

Great genres are all present on the music mainstream and fans from all over the planet had been exposed to different types of sounds and tunes.

Groups from pop and R&B had been circulating the airwaves at this year so as genres Rap and Rock.

The imminent rise of boy groups are also on the works and soloists are making a huge turn with collaborations and endless attempts to release singles after single and so forth.

Famous artists like Tupac Shakur had been bannering the headlines same as well-respected bands like R.E.M. Soloist Selena’s death also happened during this year as one of her former personal assistants took advantage of the young diva’s fame and fortune.

Alan Wilder left Depeche Mode and Robbie Williams stayed away from Take That. Rancid released their third studio album … And out Comes the Wolves.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had been opened in Cleveland, Ohio. Def Leppard set a new world record of performing three shows in three different continents in a single day.

Artist Cher had made a comeback by releasing an album after four years. Enrique Iglesias is a singer on the rise.

At the Billboard Hot 100 during this year, Boyz II Men had made an early impression by being at the number 1 spot for On Bended Knees on the first three weeks of the year.

Coincidentally, they had closed the same year with Mariah Carey for reigning at the highest peak for the last five weeks of 1995. The song was One Sweet Day.

The infamous girl group TLC had placed two songs on the Billboard Hot 100 with Creep for four weeks (January 28, February 4, 11 and 18) and Waterfalls for seven straight weeks (July 8, 15, 22 and 29 and August 5, 12 and 19).

The Batman soundtrack Kiss from a Rose by Seal made a topnotch week on August 26. Queen and King of Pop had led the charts for songs Take A Bow and This Is How We Do It with seven weeks apiece.

Bryan Adam’s soulful song Have You Really Loved a Woman? reigned for five straight weeks. 

Mariah Carey, as a single performer, made Fantasy on top of the charts for eight weeks covering most of October and November. The late Whitney Houston also contributed a song on the charts for a week entitled Exhale.

Albums that were relatively the most famous during this year are as follows: Foo Fighters’ self-entitled album, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ One Hot Minute, wonder Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, Bjork’s Post, Matthew Sweet’s 100% Fun, TLC’s CrazySexyCool, Pearl Jam’s Vitology and Moby’s Everything is Wrong.

On 1995 Grammy Awards, Alanis Morissette snatched Album of the Year with Jagged Little Pill while Seal closed the awards with Song and Record of the Year for Kiss from a Rose.

Hootie and The Blowfish is dubbed as the Best New Artist. Alison Krauss, the most number of Grammy’s earned by a female artists secured her spot on the title for Baby Now That I Found You for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female. Turbulent Indigo, an album by Joni Mitchell won Best Pop Album.


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