ISBN: 978-0-89820-137-3
Straight from the pages of Billboard magazine — this decade’s “Hot 100” music charts, with every weekly chart reproduced in black and white. Week by week, chart by chart, witness the 1990s unfold …
- New technology updates the way Billboard compiles their charts: SoundScan (sales) and Broadcast Data Systems (airplay)
- Country music popularity booms with these new artists: Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, Brooks & Dunn, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Trisha Yearwood, John Michael Montgomery, Tim McGraw, Travis Tritt
- With the blockbuster arrivals of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, the Seattle export of grunge rock explodes the popularity of rock, paving the way for the success of hundreds of rock artists (Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, Alanis Morissette).
- Rap grows to be a powerhouse force in the music industry with the immense popularity of Coolio, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Craig Mack, The Notorious B.I.G. and hundreds of others.
- R&B vocal groups enjoy mass appeal, making up a significant portion of the Hot 100: Boyz II Men, Color Me Badd, All-4-One, SWV, Jade, Shai, Silk, Xscape, Changing Faces, Zhane
- Female artists are now the creators of a large percentage of music of all genres.
- Major chart presence of artists who write, produce and perform for themselves and others: Babyface, R. Kelly, Dr. Dre, Teddy Riley
- Some of today’s biggest artists have had their entire careers in the 1990s: Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Boyz II Men, Jodeci, En Vogue, TLC, Hootie & The Blowfish
- Dance crazes: Lambada, Achy Breaky (country line dancing), Macarena, The Train
- Swift rise to fame followed by early death: Selena, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, 2PAC, Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon, Eazy-E
- Sampling old songs, particularly ‘70s funk, becomes increasingly popular with rap and R&B artists
- Record labels and artists forgo releasing album tracks as commercial singles, hoping for better album sales
- Major artists start their own record labels: Michael Jackson, Madonna, Mariah Carey
- Remix producers extend the life of singles with additional versions to keep the songs fresh in the clubs and on the radio
- New Age music sales increase: Enya, Yanni, John Tesh
- Popularity of reggae music: Shabba Ranks, Maxi Priest, Inner Circle, Big Mountain, Buju Banton, Shaggy, Mad Lion, Patra, Chaka Demus, Ini Kamoze
From pastime to passion to profitable enterprise, the growth of Record Research has been the outgrowth of Joel Whitburn’s hobby. Joel began collecting records as a teenager in the 1950s. As his collection grew, he began to sort, categorize and file each record according to the highest position it reached on Billboard magazine's charts. He went on to publish this information — first on individual artists’ cards, then in book form in 1970 — and a business was born.
Over the nearly six decades since, Record Research has created data of the life of a recording on America's major music charts, publishing 189 reference books in print. Joel also collaborated with Warner/Rhino Records in creating a series of 150 CD albums, plus five CD albums with Curb Records.
The Joel Whitburn Music Archive remains unrivaled and includes every charted Hot 100 and pop single (back to 1936), every charted pop album (back to 1945), collections of nearly every charted Country, R&B, Bubbling Under The Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary records. The collection also boasts one of the world’s largest picture sleeve collections, many of which are displayed in the series of books (Top 40 Hits, Top 40 Albums, Top 40 Country Hits, Top 40 R&B Hits) he authored for Billboard’s book division.
The world's most authoritative historian on charted music passed away in 2022, still researching the charts until his final day. His Record Research legacy continues.
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