Hits In The U.S., Flops In The U.K. | 90s Edition

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[zombiedodge]

The 1990-92 period is a graveyard of forgotten pop hits. Eighties trends had outstayed their welcome and the sounds that would define the nineties were just getting started.

[pritpala]

You didn’t include the biggest one. Janet Jackson Love will Never Do Without You. Reached no.1 in the US and didn’t even touch the top 40 in the UK.

[michaelhatton]

This is your night flopping in the UK shocks me; that song sounds like it was MADE to top the UK charts!

[stereohype]

Australian charts was kind of a mix of these...some charted well, others didnt, as opposed to UK. But I do remember almost all of these songs

[godsgroove]

lol you carcked me with what you wrote in the description 🤣

[bunjijumper]

I love this channel. It's interesting how some groups are huge in one country but virtually unknown in the UK and vice versa. Deborah Cox was amazing.

[paulc]

You can see in the period from 1990-94 UK dance / electronic music had pushed on so much more than the US
Despite the origins of Detroit and Chicago the UK market & musicians took it to another level

[Tohereknowswhen]

I'm stunned that Free Fallin' by Tom Petty didn't make the top 40 in the UK here, I know it well, even one of his other songs Learning To Fly missed the top 40 here and I used to hear that a lot on Atlantic 252 in the early 90's.

[stephaniegriffin]

Even some of these hits I thought charted higher!

[raymondacosta]

Omg! I’ve been looking for Temptation for like the past 5 years. I could not for the life of me remember the singer. I now realize I never really knew who sang it, which made it hard to find lol Thank you for finally ending my search for this nostalgic song from my childhood 😊

[pigimiss]

Amber charting so low is shocking!! I love that song!

[patrickboothe]

Not even a minute in and i’m hearing long forgotten US hits that I’ve forgotten about and haven’t heard since they were played on the radio around the time they charted.

[marcus]

I forgot how high some of these songs peaked on the Hot 100 here in the US. I'm absolutely stunned that Amber's "This Is Your Night" had such a low peak in the UK and that La Bouche's "Be My Lover" just barely missed the UK's top 40. My local CHR/Top 40 station had both in heavy rotation. Also, I'm not all that surprised that freestyle acts such as Corina, Expose and Seduction had songs with low peaks in the UK because I wasn't sure how most songs from that genre did over there aside from Shannon's 1983-84 hit "Let the Music Play."

[MrStGeorgeIllawarra]

Paula Cole's I Don't Wanna Wait was the theme to Dawson's Creek and Hands by Jewel played in the final episode when Michelle Williams's character died. Weird coincidence.

[mjsicinski]

When you compare the US and UK with 90s dance-pop, there’s a real sense of “we’ve got that at home.” Local acts dominate, no need for radio to look across the pond.

[mceccato]

"Slide" by the Goo Goo Dolls only made it to 8 in the US? That song was everywhere in the late 90s. You couldn't escape it!

[LadyArachnea]

I'm shocked because for me those songs by La Bouche, 10.000 Maniacs, Céline Dion, Shanice, Dionne Farris & Tracy Chapman are classics from my teenage years....Life is a Highway, I knew the cover by Rascal Flatts first with Cars & then the original.

[gnu_andrew]

A lot of artists I've barely heard of here, being a Brit. I honestly can't say we missed out on much.

A moment of silence for all the 90s country music that was never even released in the UK... :-)

[anndeecosita]

I like most of these songs. ❤ Free Fallin’ is one of my favorite songs of all time. I also like Tracey Chapman a lot. She’s such a talented songwriter. Vanessa Williams has a beautiful voice.
Also some of these songs are “joke songs”. The one by Biz Markie is hilarious. 😂

[jayvee]

I love everything single song 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

Thanks for the memories as the 90s was my late teens and 20s