Section 2: TheTop 40

After 7 hit the Billboard Top 40 with ”Heat of the Moment” ”Ready Or Not” ”Can’t Stop” ”Nights Like This” and ”’Til You Do Me Right”

Christina Aguilera had three hits in the 90s — ”Genie in a Bottle” ”What A Girl Wants” and ”The Christmas Song,” the first two of which went to #1.

Ahmad’s lone hit ”Back in the Day” hit the top 40 in 1994.

Alabama remade ”God Must Have Spent a Little More Time On You” with *NSync in ’99 giving them their only top 40 hit of the decade.

Tatyana Ali is multitalented. She took ”Daydreamin’” all the way to #6 and made nerdy girls look sexy as Ashley Banks in the Fresh Prince.

Alias also hit the top 40 with ”More Than Words Can Say” and ”Waiting For Love.”

All-4-One took ”So Much In Love” ”I Swear” ”I Can Love You Like That” and ”Someday” into the top 40.

All Saints’s ”I Know Where’s It’s At” and ”Never Ever” both cracked the top 40.

Allure hit the top 40 twice with ”Head Over Heels” and ”All Cried Out.”

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