ha no wait it was Fergie who had the last ballad #1 before Adele: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/09/adele_someone_like_you_billboard_charts.php
― some dude, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
"Change The World" was goddamn ubiquitous down here for most of '96: it and "Head Over Feet" and the "Friends" theme and Jann Arden's "Insensitive" were on loop.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 October 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
19th biggest Hot 100 hit of '96!
― some dude, Monday, 29 October 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
How 'bout Aerosmith, "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing"?
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 29 October 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
well, "Jaded" was a top 10 hit even later than prob any boomer hit besides a couple of the Santana singles
― some dude, Monday, 29 October 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
but good call w/ Aerosmith in general
I've never even heard of "Jaded," but I wasn't paying much attention then. Just checked Blondie's "Maria" -- wasn't a huge chart hit in the U.S. but went to #1 in the U.K.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 29 October 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
"Jaded" was definitely not as big as the Armageddon song but it was kinda the last gasp of Aerosmith as pop culture force, was all over the radio and they played it at the Super Bowl
― some dude, Monday, 29 October 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
"Insensitive" even made it outside of Canada?!
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Smyth's duet with Don Henley from the early 90s, "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" was a decent bit of MOR slush, superior to anything I've hard by Smith, which granted isn't much. (I heard bits of Horses back in the day.)
― Freedom, Thursday, 5 May 2016 11:22 (seven years ago) link