The clip wouldn’t have survived today’s relentless meme culture, but the track’s sentimental and strong lyrics hold up, and its themes echo on in modern call-to-action anthems like Pink’s “What About Us.” - PATRICK CROWLEYĩ6. The track’s popular music video followed our star as she weirdly sauntered through the aftermath of a natural disaster, emotionless, while rescuers frantically helped victims out of the rubble. Jewel successfully avoided the sophomore slump with this single, the first off her second album, Spirit. Yes, there are many racial and gender issues at play - Osmond is providing the singing voice for a Chinese character, and the lyrics deal in a vast array of male and female stereotypes. But listening to the smooth delivery of Osmond’s insults and orders to those under his charge - and singing along with those backing “ BE A MAN!“s in response - is too damn fun to resist. Let’s get down to business to defeat any notion that this isn’t one of the greatest Disney songs of all time. Donny Osmond & Chorus, “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” (Did not chart) See our list below - with a Spotify playlist of all the songs at the bottom - and have fun reliving the days of Monica Lewinsky, Jesse Camp and Mark McGwire all week on .ĩ8. 1 until the next year (like “Baby One More Time” or “Believe”), we’re counting ’em for ’99.
Songs were counted as eligible if they were released as singles in ’98, or if they debuted on the Billboard charts in ’98 - but if they didn’t hit the Hot 100 until the next year (like “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” or “Ex Factor”), or if they debuted in ’98 but didn’t hit No.
To start, we compiled a list of our 98 favorite songs of ’98 - the classics that best define our memories of the year that was, and the ones that have stuck with us in the decades since. It was the roaring ’90s on the Billboard charts, a pre-millennial boom where no one involved could’ve guessed that a couple teenage ‘Net entrepreneurs were just a year away from turning the entire industry on its head.Īt Billboard, we’re celebrating everything 1998 with a week’s worth of content themed around this incredible year, remembering all the unforgettable (and some of the unfortunately forgotten) songs, artists, and moments it had to offer. Brandy & Monica happened, and so did Whitney & Mariah. Some of the biggest songs of the year came from movies as random as Rush Hour, City of Angels and Dr. 1. All three members of the perma-hiatused Fugees had major solo hits. A quarter century into their career, Aerosmith had their first Hot 100 No. But even in a year where these pop planets finally seemed to find themselves in perfect alignment, it was the other hits orbiting and shooting off around them that gave 1998 its real character.
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