Popular Songs Of 1998, Vol. 4

Last but not least, Vol. 4 of the most popular (and probably, by proxy, the best) songs from twenty years ago. I'm sure you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Eagle-Eye Cherry  ~  “Save Tonight”

2)  Shania Twain  ~  “Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)”

3)  Semisonic  ~  “Closing Time”

4)  Martina McBride  ~  “A Broken Wing”

5)  The Brian Setzer Orchestra  ~  “Jump Jive An’ Wail”

6)  Avalon  ~  “Testify To Love”

7)  Green Day  ~  “Redundant”

8)  Faith Hill ft. Vince Gill  ~  “Let Me Let Go”

9)  K-Ci & JoJo  ~  “All My Life”

10)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  “Crush”

11)  Creed  ~  “What’s This Life For”

12)  Dixie Chicks  ~  “Wide Open Spaces”

13)  2Pac  ~  “Do For Love”

14)  R.E.M.  ~  “Daysleeper”

15)  NSYNC  ~  “I Want You Back”

16)  Rebecca St. James  ~  “Pray”

17)  New Radicals  ~  “You Get What You Give”

18)  Vince Gill  ~  “If You Ever Have Forever In Mind”

19)  Oasis  ~  “All Around The World”

20)  98°  ~  “Because Of You”

21)  Deana Carter  ~  “Absence Of The Heart”

22)  Shawn Mullins  ~  “Lullaby”

23)  Our Lady Peace  ~  “Clumsy”

24)  Third Eye Blind  ~  “Jumper”

25)  Will Smith  ~  “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It”

Popular Songs Of 1998, Vol. 2

Well, these sure bring back memories for me. How about you? Popular Songs of 1998, Vol. 2 is a go! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Aerosmith  ~  “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”

2)  Dixie Chicks  ~  “I Can Love You Better”

3)  Sammy Kershaw  ~  “Love Of My Life”

4)  Garbage  ~  “I Think I’m Paranoid”

5)  Eve 6  ~  “Inside Out”

6)  All Saints  ~  “Never Ever”

7)  Fastball  ~  “The Way”

8)  Lila McCann  ~  “I Wanna Fall In Love”

9)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Iris”

10)  Sarah McLachlan  ~  “Adia”

11)  Everclear  ~  “Father Of Mine”

12)  Xscape  ~  “The Arms Of The One Who Loves You”

13)  Uncle Sam  ~  “I Don’t Ever Want To See You Again”

14)  Faith Hill ft. Tim McGraw  ~  “Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me”

15)  Jimmy Ray  ~  “Are You Jimmy Ray?”

16)  Destiny’s Child  ~  “No, No, No”

17)  Newsboys  ~  “Entertaining Angels”

18)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Cruel Summer”

19)  Metallica  ~  “The Unforgiven II”

20)  Spice Girls  ~  “Too Much”

21)  Clint Black  ~  “Nothin’ But The Taillights”

22)  Paula Cole  ~  “I Don’t Want To Wait”

23)  Harvey Danger  ~  “Flagpole Sitta”

24)  Jennifer Paige  ~  “Crush”

25)  The Wallflowers  ~  “Heroes”

Popular Songs Of 1998, Vol. 1

And it begins! The most Popular Songs Of 1998, a year which was apparently quite excellent for a variety of genres of music, many of which are represented here. I hope you'll enjoy listening to and watching these as much as I did when compiling them. And the best part is there's three more posts of these yet to come!  ~  JH

1)  Brandy & Monica  ~  “The Boy Is Mine”

2)  Barenaked Ladies  ~  “One Week”

3)  Shania Twain  ~  “You’re Still The One”

4)  Foo Fighters  ~  “My Hero”

5)  Madonna  ~  “Frozen”

6)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  “Don’t Drink The Water”

7)  Deborah Cox  ~  “Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here”

8)  DC Talk  ~  “Consume Me”

9)  Faith Hill  ~  “This Kiss”

10)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Perfect”

11)  Garbage  ~  “Push It”

12)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”

13)  Loreena McKennitt  ~  “The Mummer’s Dance”

14)  The Offspring  ~  “Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)”

15)  Janet Jackson  ~  “I Get Lonely”

16)  Radiohead  ~  “Karma Police”

17)  Sara Evans ft. Vince Gill  ~  “No Place That Far”

18)  Edwin McCain  ~  “I’ll Be”

19)  Hole  ~  “Celebrity Skin”

20)  Garth Brooks  ~  “To Make You Feel My Love”

21)  Jennifer Knapp  ~  “Undo Me”

22)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Real World”

23)  Lauryn Hill  ~  “Doo-Wop (That Thing)”

24)  U2  ~  The Sweetest Thing”

25)  Cher  ~  “Believe”

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 3

Here's another set of Popular Songs Of 1997. (One more to go after today.) This one might be the best in the series so far, but I'll leave that up to you to decide. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “As Long As You Love Me”

2)  Live  ~  “Freaks”  (This was then and still remains a profoundly odd, yet inexplicably engaging tune by one of my favorite mid-‘90s bands.)

3)  No Doubt  ~  “Sunday Morning”

4)  The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Mase & Puff Daddy  ~  “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems”

5)  Deana Carter  ~  “We Danced Anyway”

6)  Everclear  ~  “Everything To Everyone”

7)  Sneaker Pimps  ~  “6 Underground”

8)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Criminal”

9)  Paula Cole  ~  “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?”

10)  Rick Trevino  ~  “Running Out Of Reasons To Run”

11)  Babyface  ~  “Every Time I Close My Eyes”  (Listen closely for Mariah Carey’s backing vocals here. I never knew she was on this track, and uncredited no less!)

12)  Oasis  ~  “Stand By Me”

13)  Billie Myers  ~  “Kiss The Rain”

14)  The Verve Pipe  ~  “The Freshmen”

15)  Robyn  ~  “Do You Know (What It Takes)”

16)  Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill  ~  “It’s Your Love”

17)  Warren G  ~  “I Shot The Sheriff”

18)  Céline Dion & Barbra Streisand  ~  “Tell Him”

19)  Smash Mouth  ~  “Walkin’ On The Sun”

20)  Third Eye Blind  ~  “How’s It Gonna Be”

21)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Volcano Girls”

22)  Counting Crows  ~  “A Long December”

23)  Chris Rice  ~  “Deep Enough To Dream”

24)  Foo Fighters  ~  “Monkey Wrench”

25)  Elton John  ~  “Something About The Way You Look Tonight”