Category: Yearly Rankings

1998 might have been the year nu-metal stepped up to a whole new level thanks to the blockbusting success of

1997 doesn’t seem all that long ago. Y2K was fast approaching and we were freaking out about machines canceling progress and taking

Metal had seen off grunge and found its feet again by the second half of the 1990s. Yet aside from

In 1995, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl’s new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters, becoming one

Oasis was a massively popular Britpop band at the forefront of alternative rock. From their release of Definitely Maybe in 1994, through to (What’s

 Mazzy Star had a top 40 hit with “Fade into You” (1993).  Cyndi Lauper released her first mature album Hat Full of Stars (1993),

Metallica’s success was followed by Megadeth’s Countdown to Extinction (1992) which hit number 2, Anthrax, Pantera, and Slayer cracked the top 10, and albums by regional

Pearl Jam released its debut album, Ten, a month before Nevermind in 1991, but sales only picked up a year later. In the

Popular music in the 1990s saw the continuation of teen pop and dance-pop trends which had emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. Furthermore, hip hop grew and continued

Madonna made music videos a marketing tool and was among the first to make them an art form. Many of