VH1 is presenting the Top 100 Songs of the 90's, starting tonight.

My guess for #1 is "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.

It'll be interesting to see who's all included. I remember a lot of Gangsta Rap and Alternative Rock, during the early 90's and Bubbly/Boy Band music, during the late 90's.

IMO, it wasn't that great of a musical decade. I actually switched over to Country. I prefer the 80's myself.

Delete - oops.

The 90s is when pop music really splintered off into sub-genres that couldn't be played back-to-back on the same station anymore. I was working in a music store through the first half of the decade and had tuned out pop music almost entirely by 93/94. Have always been a country fan and fortunately, like Ausmusfan, country was in the middle of a boom with a lot of new artists and great sounds back then. The 90s seemed to become more and more dominated by hip-hop and urban sounds, which I just never related to very well. I actually enjoyed the teen pop sound of the late 90s because it reminded me of what I loved so much about the 1980s - catchy, accessible, fun music. Was it worth the plastic it was burned to? No. But it was enjoyable.

I can hear the husband is watching the Vh1 show right now and "Informer" by Snow is playing. "12 Inches of Snow" was the title of the album. Hmm, somehow I think he was exaggerating a wee bit. Licky boom boom down, indeed.

I started listening to new music in summer of '94 so that's all I've known. Rock, pop, rap, 'indie', electronic, etc.--everything is fragmented but it doesn't mean you have to limit yourself to only one genre.

"Teen Spirit" is the odds-on favorite for #1 but also watch out for something typically VH1 lame like "Under the Bridge" or "One."

100. Rico Suave - Gerardo - yikes, i actually bought the cassingle.
99. The Rain - Missy Elliott - never heard of this song
98. Unbelievable - EMF - awesome song
97. Gett Off - Prince - don't remember this one
96. Love and Affection - Nelson - they were cute
95. This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan - only know the words to the title
94. The Way - Fastball - loved this song, it was different
93. Stay - Lisa Loeb - this song rocked !!! should've ranked higher
92. 911 is a Joke - Public Enemy - another I don't know
91. Building a Mystery - Sarah Maclachlan - beautiful song
90. You Get What You Give - New Radicals - fun song
89. Never Said - Liz Phair - never heard before
88. Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik - easy to sing along to
87. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus - i just threw up a little in my mouth
86. Linger - the Cranberries - LOVED IT !!!
85. Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill - wacky song
84. Informer - Snow - hardly understood a word he rapped
83. Cannonball - the Breeders - awesome guitar riff
82. Mind Playing Tricks on Me - Geto Boys - never heard before
81. I Don't Want to Wait - Paula Cole - Dawson's Creek Theme

One of my all time favorite lyrics - "23 positions in a 1 night stand."

You gotta check this song out, it's incredibly dirty and nasty....and I love it!

I think you might be missing one position. Think Dr. Pepper.

Thanks Maddog! I corrected my typo.

Never said that you did. Just stating that you have to do a lot more station jumping to get the kind of variety you could find on a single station in the 1980s. True top 40 stations that will play everything popular don't really exist anymore (or are very rare). They always lean urban or adult or some other direction and leave a lot of popular music off their playlists. On the flip side of that, in the 1980s there wasn't near the variety of music in what could be considered "pop" either. Dance music had gone underground or back into the clubs after the disco backlash and didn't truly re-emerge until the latter half of the 80s. Pop-oriented heavy metal became the rock sound of the decade and hadn't been booted off the airwaves until grunge appeared in the mainsteam in the early 90s. Urban and hip-hop had been gaining ground slowly throughout the 80s, but didn't really explode until about 1990.

But a reasonable list for VH1 so far. I'm with Ausmusfan's comments for the most part, tho I remember the Prince song (one of our favorite albums to play in Wherehouse when we worked) and Public Enemy. I would think Nirvana should be at the top, but wouldn't surprise me to see "I Will Always Love You" sneak in if it isn't "Teen Spirit." Not that it should - I just wouldn't be surprised with all the history it made at the time.

OMG...this is an awesome song...and an even better video!!! Missy Elliott is the sh!t.

"...beep, beep...who got the keys to the Jeep? VROOM!!!"

That is absurd. This should be top-20. One of the most important songs for Hip Hop ever; Missy changed so much with that one song.

No. 1 SHOULD be NOTHING BUT A G THANG by Dr. Dre, but I'm sure they'll find a way to bury it somewhere in the 60s.

Two others to watch for, both from movie soundtracks: I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU (Whitney) and MY HEART WILL GO ON (Celine), both of which completely rocked the charts and the awards.

Also curious to see where Jewel's WHO WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL will end up. What that single and album did was unprecedented. And will they include Elton John's version of CANDLE IN THE WIND? Given the sales and the sympathy, that one could be top-10.

I watched the show last night. I had forgotten some of those songs. The 90s had a great British alternative scene called BritPop and I sadly remember the phrase "Cool Britania". The early to mid 90s saw the second wave of the Manchester scene: Stone Roses, Charlatans UK, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, Inspiral Carpets, etc. and other Brit greats like Lush, Suede (aka London Suede), Saint Etienne, Stereolab, Blur, and don't forget Pulp or My Bloody Valentine. And then I haven't even mention Radiohead or Bjork. The late 90s was all boy bands and spice girls-type singing groups. I use to love love love Suede & Brett Anderson. He use to describe himself as a sexual tourist. That video for The Drowners was so much fun. I consider that my first foam party (before I actually went to one!)

80. I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred - insert joke here
79. Bitch - Meredith Brooks - Love this song
78. Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz - he rocked this song and rocked in dreads
77. It Was a Good Day - Ice Cube - ????
76. Run Around - Blues Traveler - who knew playing a harmonica was so rad
75. Jump - Kris Kross - Daddy Mack will make you jump, jump
74. Believe - Cher - song that made us all GAY
73. Sex & Candy - Marcy Playground - loved this song
72. One Week - Bare Naked Ladies - crazy, wacked out song - hard to see along - many cool lyrics though
71. Tennessee - Arrested Development - take me to another place, take me to another land ....
70. Virtual Insanity - Jamiroguai - neat video
69. Freak on a Leash - Korn - not my thing, cool video
68. Gettin' Jiggy Wit It - Will Smith - fun song by the Fresh Prince
67. Groove is in the Heart - Dee lite - Cool a$$ song, made me free to be gay
66. I'll Be - Edwin McCain - sentimental song on the decade, who didn't want to be a shoulder to cry on
65. Humpty Dance - Digital Underground - a dance even I could do
64. Peaches - Presidents of the USA - I don't even know this song
63. Mo' Money, Mo' Problems - Puff Daddy - Awesome song, I love it
62. I Alone - Live - I don't know this one either
61. All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow - all I wanna do is turn this song off when I hear it, it's annoying

Kris Kross made me want to puke puke

and I still like All I Want to Do

Great song although if you're only going to put one Live song on the list is should be Dolphin's Cry. Maybe it'll come up higher on the list.

Agreed! Overall,my least favorite decade for music.See what happens when you get old?

Please don't tell me "Wonderwall" or anything by Oasis even touched the top 50. Please.

Clearly they're gonna hose Hip-Hop. One of the greatest samples of all time, still hits the airwaves, still is on my playlist. Oh well. It is VH1's list, so it's not a surprise.

'Believe' by Cher is one of the top two or three best selling singles in history - why is it so low?

Quite frankly, I listened to most of the Brit bands that you mention above during the 90s, especially the Manchester bands. They rocked!

As far as most of the American crap that was being played/released during that decade was mostly concerned w/, "Who has the right image?, Who can make the most money for us?, Who can lip synch the best?, Who can we hire to write the the hits w/ a 'hook' for us?...Who cares whether you can sing/write music as long as we can package you." IMHO, that sums up most of the American music scene of the 90s.

Where'd you get that? I've never seen a list that even has this in the top 10 for sales.

Singles sales since the early 90s can be a bit dubious. Various labels would reduce a single to 99 cents, which would dramatically increase sales, but that doesn't mean it's a great song.

Okay, this is just the UK's top selling singles (as of 2005 i think) of all time:

01. "Candle In The Wind '97" - Elton John (4.86 million)
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid (3.55m)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (2.13m)
"Mull Of Kintyre" - Wings (2.05m)
"Rivers Of Bablyon" / "Brown Girl In The Ring" - Boney M (1.985m)
"You're The One That I Want" - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John (1.975m)
"Relax" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1.91m)
"She Loves You" - The Beatles (1.89m)
"Unchained Melody" - Robson & Jerome (1.84m)
10. "Mary's Boychild / Oh My Lord" - Boney M (1.79m)
"Evergreen" / "Anything Is Possible" - Will Young (1.78m)
"Love Is All Around" - Wet Wet Wet (1.78m)
"I Just Called To Say I Love You" - Stevie Wonder (1.775m)
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" - The Beatles (1.75m)
"Barbie Girl" - Aqua (1.72m)
"Believe" - Cher (1.67m)
"Perfect Day" - Various Artists (1.55m)
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" - Bryan Adams (1.53m)
"Tears" - Ken Dodd (1.52m)
20. "Can't Buy Me Love" - The Beatles (1.52m)


According to Billboard, "Believe" was the #1 song of 1999 so it's odd that's it not at least in the top ten or so of the VHI 90's...

"I Will Always Love You" "Believe" and the Titantic song are three of the longest running #1 songs ever..

I mixed that up with best selling...oops.

Count on seeing TLC near the top of the 90's...

Oh and check this Billboard page: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/year...chart_index.jsp

Wikipedia has this list of songs that have been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America as selling over 4 million copies:

(in alphabetical order)

* "Another One Bites the Dust", Queen
* "Bad, Michael Jackson
* "Ballad of the Green Berets", Sgt Barry Sadler
* "Beat It", Michael Jackson
* "Billie Jean", Michael Jackson
* "Black or White, Michael Jackson
* "Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight", Elton John
* "The Chipmunk Song", The Chipmunks
* "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", Bryan Adams
* "Eye of the Tiger", Survivor
* "Hey Jude", The Beatles
* "Hound Dog"/"Don't Be Cruel", Elvis Presley
* "I Just Can't Stop Loving You, Michael Jackson
* "I Want to Hold Your Hand", The Beatles
* "I Will Always Love You", Whitney Houston
* "I'll Be There", Jackson 5
* "Islands in the Stream", Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
* "I Think We're Alone Now", Tiffany
* "Let's Get It On", Marvin Gaye
* "Le Freak", Chic
* "Macarena", Los Del Rio
* "Scream/Childhood", Michael Jackson
* "Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees
* "Thriller", Michael Jackson
* "We are the world", Michael Jackson for USA for Africa
* "Whoomp! (There It Is)", Tag Team

There's a longer list of songs that are certified for sales over 2 million. "Believe" is on that list.

Notes on RIAA certification (also from Wikipedia):

* The RIAA only certifies a record if that record company pays for its official certification; some companies do not consider this an important distinction and will not request certifications unless pressed by its active, still saleable artists. A full and complete list of RIAA-certified recordings would be a very incomplete list of popular American music. (About this, I recall reading that Motown refused to have their hits officially certified for many years -- I think Berry Gordy didn't want anyone getting the true figures on their sales because that way he could avoid paying full royalties to his hitmakers.)

* The RIAA only certifies a particular recording of a song. For example, sales of Elton John's original "Candle in the Wind" single are not counted towards the 1997 version's official total.

* Retroactive RIAA certification only goes back to 1958; thus, a record like Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," released in 1942 and reported in 1963 as having sold 30 million copies, and currently listed by the Guinness Book of World Records at 50 million sales, would not be eligible. Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" is assumed to have sold more than 25 million copies since 1955. According to Billboard Magazine's statistician Joel Whitburn, other pre-1958 singles that would be affected by this cutoff point include Gene Autry's "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (8 million sales reported); Crosby's "Silent Night" (7 million); Vernon Dalhart's "The Prisoner's Song" (7 million); the Mills Brothers' "Paper Doll" (6 million); Patti Page's "The Tennessee Waltz" (6 million); Gene Austin's "My Blue Heaven" (5 million); and Ben Selvin's "Dardanella" (5 million); and another 21 single releases in the 2-3 million range. (That is, assuming their respective record companies would elect to bear the optional expense of an official RIAA certification. It is unlikely, for example, that Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which absorbed RCA Records, which in turn had long ago purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, now sees any particular advantage in precisely determining the sales for Selvin's 1920 smash hit on Victor Records.) The first officially RIAA-certified million-selling single was Perry Como's "Catch a Falling Star," in March 1958.

If you're still awake after all that... clearly "Believe" was a massive, massive hit and should be higher on this list.

60. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe - smashing hip hop song
59. Buddy Holly - Weezer - Beverly Hills wasn't their only song
58. Damn, I wish I Were Your Lover - Sophie B. Hawkins
57. Can I Get A ... - Jay-Z - Can I get a whao, whao - Jammin' # 1
56. Mama, Said Knock You Out - LL COOL J - know only the words to the title
55. Criminal - Fiona Apple - feed this girl an apple - cool ass song
54. One of Us - Joan Osborne - okay song, so many better
53. O.P.P - Naughty By Nature - Yeah you know me !!!
52. Fly - Sugar Ray - Mark McGrath was so hot.
51. California Love - 2 PAC - California knows how to party. In the city, city of Compton...
50. Man in a Box - Alice in Chains - ???
49. Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel - love her
48. 3 a.m. - Matchbox Twenty - Rob Thomas = hottie - awesome songs by this band
47. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - Mark Wahlberg and his buff bod
46. You're Still the One - Shania Twain - LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT
45. Only Wanna Be with You - Hootie and the Blowfsh - awww, this song was so cool
44. Killing Me Soflty - the Fugees - possibly the best remake of the 90's - where's lauryn???
43. My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) - En Vogue - four, beautiful funky divas
42. Shine - Collective Soul - the songs with the yeahs
41. Two Princes - Spin Doctors - just go ahead now... - cool song

"Believe" was #1 in the U.S. for 4 weeks, but remained on high on the charts for a long time, which is how it was ranked as the top single of 1999 in Billboard.

"My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic was #1 for only 2 weeks (believe it or not). I'd have to look up the competition it had at the time to keep it from being on top longer. Celine never had another #1 and only managed two or three top tens after that (I'd have to look that up to verify).

I did a little research this morning and it turns out that this list was determined by user voting on vh1.com. According to the site, over 600,000 votes were cast to make up the list, so sales, radio airplay, etc had absolutely nothing to do with it.

Be careful if you go on the greatest songs part of the vh1.com website. I clicked the wrong link and was treated to the entire list of 100. I can honestly say there were some "WHAT?!" moments while I was looking at it.

To quote a beloved cartoon character (at least in our house) concerning the list, "People are idiots. And I hate them."

I loved the parody of this song.

GREAT call. Waterfalls will be top 10. Red Light Special could also be in the top 40. TLC was the best-selling girl group of all time until, I believe, Destiny's Child bumped them off the top spot.

The reason "My Heart Will Go On" only spent 2 weeks atop the Billboard 100 list is because it's a combination of airplay and singles sales. They released a very limited number of singles, so after they were literally all sold out in two weeks, the song go no credit for that part of the equation. I believe it was atop the airplay charts for like 10-12 weeks. It's why the single-sales charts aren't the best measure of popularity; they can be manipulated by price and limited releases.

That's right - I'd forgotten the label only released 500,000 copies of "Heart" for sale and they were snapped up pretty quickly.

The formula for ranking airplay and sales together is constantly being tinkered with by Billboard. It was different when ONLY songs with physical singles were available up to the mid-90s (as "airplay only" songs were not allowed on the Hot 100); then changed when Billboard adopted a policy of allowing non-commercially available songs to chart (because so many labels were not releasing singles to try and boost album sales) still counting physical single sales, but having it account for much less of a song's point total; then changed again when digital downloads became a retail force that they had to start adding the points differently because what was getting airplay was not necessarily what was selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies range.

Anymore, Billboard has about a gazillion charts for literally everything. It's a fascinating read if you are a chart geek like me - so are Joel Whitburn's books for various music genres, as he compiles all his information from Billboard's charts over the decades. I bought Billboard every week from 1985 through about 1992 and then only occasionally after that (but always buy the year-end issues) and still enjoy looking at the new charts online every week and picking up an actual magazine in the bookstores now and then.

Ultimately, I think that lists compiled the way VH1 did this one are more interesting. They're completely subjective - based on whatever the people who took the trouble to vote online were liking at the time of the poll. Had the list been based on sales or airplay or some other way that showed "this is the tangible evidence we are basing our list upon," it wouldn't be near as fun to argue and debate. And that's the whole point of these shows (I can't tell you about how many times I yelled at the tv for their list of one-hit wonders a couple years back that repeats every now and then - they might have had up to ten artists who were NOT one-hit wonders)!

That was me for a while. I subscribed from around 1982 into the 90s. Once it became more of a chore to read -- it seemed almost every week there was a special supplement for an artist or company, plus additional charts for sales only, airplay only, etc., and such -- I finally lost interest. I've bought the year-end issue a couple of times in recent years but it's really too much. Charts for ringtone sales?

Except, I just saw the full list. They hit the mark on some, but there are some REAL stinkers in the top 20. It seems they allowed only one song per artist to be nominated. I'm soooo glad I have not wasted any time watching this show. What a bunch of crap.

Yeah, I hear that. Anymore, it's almost too magazine-y, if that makes sense. I liked it in the late 80s when it was just about the industry and it didn't deal so much with artist interviews and the are-these-really-necessary charts for ring-tones, etc. Although, honestly, I still think those are kind of fascinating to see what dumb-ass songs are SO popular that people actually want to hear them when their phone rings too.

Personally, I'm kinda happy I've been watching the show so far this week (although I will miss tonight and tomorrow - will have to catch one of the many repeats over the next couple of weeks). Cyd, I don't think we have even remotely the same taste in music (since the ones you seemed to be happiest with are mostly the ones I'm wondering what they're doing on the list at all! ). But like I said before, that's part of what I like is that we get to discuss and argue their top 100.

Joe - you're awesome. Thanks for filling in some gaps.

I was obsessed with pop music when I was a kid, going so far as to keep my own top singles and album charts for three years as a young teen. The only ones whoever saw it besides myself were my brothers but I was devoted to it. I still have every one of them. I listened to AT top 40 just as passionately....So the Billboard top 100 is always fun for me to look at...Radio has of course changed oh so dramatically...I could never listen to Ryan Seacrest do the top 40 as I'm pretty sure he does now. It would be wrong.

Airplay vs. sales. I forgot. I remember hearing radio personalities talk about how long the Titantic song was around...at or near the very top of the charts.

40. I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd - good song by a not so good looking quartet
39. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls - this song totally defined me - the lyrics especially, since i was dealing with wanting to come out and becoming very apprehensive about it. " i don't want the world to see me, cuz i don't think they'd understand..."
38. Genie in a Bottle - Christina Aguilera - the best of the teenybopper chicks, that appeared in the late 90's
37. Good Riddance (time of your life) - Green Day - loved it
36. Gonna Make You Sweat - C+C Music Factory - "i'm just squirrel trying to get a nut" - huge dance song
35. Wonderwall - Oasis - i loved singing along to this one - even though i couldn't understand a thing they said, otherwise
34. Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind - "do, do, do, do, do, do ... i want something else"
33. Wannabe - Spice Girls - the girls that kicked grunge to da curb, brought fun back to the radio
32. No Diggity - Blackstreet - "I like the way you work it ..."
31. Creep - Radiohead - another lyrical song that suited me - "i'm a creep, i'm a weirdo, i don't belong here"
30. Tearin' Up My Heart - Nsync - aww, the boy band with the cuties - my boy JC
29. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice - you know you loved it too - he was da bomb - and you know when "Under Pressure" comes on, you're thinking of Ice Ice Baby
28. La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin - oh, Ricky, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind....
27. Mr. Jones - Counting Crows - amazing song
26. My Name is - Eminem - who is this, who let him on the radio - who knew?
25. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden - cool song
24. Jump Around - House of Pain - OMG I LOVE THIS SONG !!!!!! JUMP AROUND !!!!!!!!!!!
23. Whatta Man - Salt-n-Pepa - the girls singing about what I love - MEN
22. Loser - Beck - "I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me" - another one about me at the time
21. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion - the song that will forever go on - love it

the top 100 list

Baby Got Back at #6????

WTF

100 Greatest Songs Of The '90s Full List
01. Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
02. U2 "One"
03. Backstreet Boys "I Want It That Way"
04. Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You"
05. Madonna "Vogue"
06. Sir Mix-A-Lot "Baby Got Back"
07. Britney Spears "...Baby One More Time"
08. TLC"Waterfalls"
09. R.E.M. "Losing My Religion"
10. Sinéad O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U"
11. Pearl Jam "Jeremy"
12. Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know"
13. Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang"
14. Mariah Carey "Vision of Love"
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under the Bridge"
16. MC Hammer "U Can't Touch This"
17. Destiny's Child "Say My Name"
18. Metallica "Enter Sandman"
19. Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
20. Hanson "MMMBop"
21. Celine Dion "My Heart Will Go On"
22. Beck "Loser"
23. Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue "Whatta Man"
24. House of Pain "Jump Around"
25. Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun"
26. Eminem "My Name Is"
27. Counting Crows "Mr. Jones"
28. Ricky Martin "Livin' la Vida Loca"
29. Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby"
30. *NSYNC "Tearin' Up My Heart"
31. Radiohead "Creep"
32. BLACKstreet "No Diggity"
33. Spice Girls "Wannabe"
34. Third Eye Blind "Semi-Charmed Life"
35. Oasis "Wonderwall"
36. C+C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
37. Green Day "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
38. Christina Aguilera "Genie In A Bottle"
39. Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"
40. Color Me Badd "I Wanna Sex You Up"
41. Spin Doctors "Two Princes"
42. Collective Soul "Shine"
43. En Vogue "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)"
44. The Fugees "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
45. Hootie & the Blowfish "Only Wanna Be With You"
46. Shania Twain "You're Still the One"
47. Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch "Good Vibrations"
48. Matchbox Twenty "3 AM"
49. Jewel "Who Will Save Your Soul"
50. Alice in Chains "Man in the Box"
51. Tupac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) "California Love"
52. Sugar Ray "Fly"
53. Naughty by Nature "O.P.P."
54. Joan Osborne "One of Us"
55. Fiona Apple "Criminal"
56. L.L. Cool J "Mama Said Knock You Out"
57. Jay-Z featuring Amil and Ja Rule "Can I Get A..."
58. Sophie B. Hawkins "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover"
59. Weezer "Buddy Holly"
60. Bell Biv DeVoe "Poison"
61. Sheryl Crow "All I Wanna Do"
62. Live "I Alone"
63. The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase & Puff Daddy "Mo Money Mo Problems"
64. The Presidents of the United States of America "Peaches"
65. Digital Underground "The Humpty Dance"
66. Edwin McCain "I'll Be"
67. Deee-Lite "Groove Is In The Heart"
68. Will Smith "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"
69. Korn "Freak on a Leash"
70. Jamiroquai "Virtual Insanity"
71. Arrested Development "Tennessee"
72. Barenaked Ladies "One Week"
73. Marcy Playground "Sex and Candy"
74. Cher "Believe"
75. Kris Kross "Jump"
76. Blues Traveler "Run-Around"
77. Ice Cube "It Was a Good Day"
78. Lenny Kravitz "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
79. Meredith Brooks "Bitch"
80. Right Said Fred "I'm Too Sexy"
81. Paula Cole "I Don't Want to Wait"
82. Geto Boys "Mind Playing Tricks on Me"
83. The Breeders "Cannonball"
84. Snow "Informer"
85. Cypress Hill "Insane In The Brain"
86. The Cranberries "Linger"
87. Billy Ray Cyrus "Achy Breaky Heart"
88. Duncan Sheik "Barely Breathing"
89. Liz Phair "Never Said"
90. New Radicals "You Get What You Give"
91. Sarah McLachlan "Building a Mystery"
92. Public Enemy "911 Is A Joke"
93. Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories "Stay"
94. Fastball "The Way"
95. Montell Jordan "This is How We Do It"
96. Nelson "(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection"
97. Prince & The New Power Generation "Gett Off"
98. EMF"Unbelievable"
99. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"
100. Gerardo "Rico Suave

I heard a report awhile ago, that "Believe" is Cher's biggest selling single in her career, that may be the confusion.

Since the full list is out.... let's list some omissions.

WTF??? no Janet Jackson - that's the way love goes, black cat, love will never do, escapade, together again

her brother, Michael Jackson - Black or White, Remember the Time

aerosmith - cryin', I don't want to miss a thing

blind melon - no rain

stone temple pilots - plush

dave matthews band - crash into me

the wallflowers - one headlight

limp bizkit - nookie

ace of base - the sign, don't turn around, all that she wants

toni braxton - breathe again, un-break my heart

melissa etheridge - come to my window, i'm the only one

Boyz II Men - Motownphilly, End of the Road, It's so Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

No Doubt - Don't Speak, Spiderwebs

Kid Rock - Bawitdaba

I agree about J. Jackson Love Will Never Do. Not only because of Antonio Sabato Jr But seriously, it is a great song, and with the released in '91 as a single, Janet J became the first artitst to have 3 number 1 songs from the same album in 3 seperate years

I wish Black Cat was on because that is just a kick ass song.