Section 2: The Top 40

Jomanda hit #40 with ”Got A Love For You”

Jon B. hit the top 40 with ”Someone to Love” ”Pretty Girl” ”They Don’t Know” and ”Are You Still Down.”

Donell Jones hit #7 with ”U Know What’s Up”

Howard Jones’s ”Lift Me Up” was his only hit in the decade and it charted at #32.

Quincy Jones hit #31 with ”The Secret Garden” featuring Al B. Sure, James Ingram, El DeBarge & Barry White.

Jeremy Jordan hit the top 40 with ”The Right Kind of Love” and ”Wannagirl.” Shh. I owned the record.

Montell Jordan hit the top 40 with ”Somethin’ 4 Da Honeyz” ”I Like” ”Falling” ”What’s On Tonight” ”I Can Do That” ”Let’s Ride” and ”Get It On…Tonite.” He also spent seven weeks at #1 with my second favorite song of the decade, ”This Is How We Do It.”

Journey hit #12 in 1996 with ”When You Love A Woman”

Another contender for least known Top 40 song shows up this week as J-Shin hit #34 with ”One Night Stand.”

Junior M.A.F.I.A. hit #13 with ”Player’s Anthem” and #17 with ”Get Money.”

Juvenile hit #19 with ”Back That Azz Up”

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Dave Steed is all about music; 80's and metal to be exact. His iPod will shuffle from Culture Club to Slayer and he won't blink an eye. He's never heard Astral Weeks but thinks "Dazzey Duks" by Duice is the bomb. It's an odd little corner of the world he lives in.

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