Section 2: The Top 40
The supergroup known as BMU or Black Men United hit #28 with ”U Will Know.”
BoDeans took the Party of Five favorite, ”Closer To Free” to #18 in 1996 .
Billboard ranks Michael Bolton as the 10th biggest artist of the decade thanks to top 40 hits like, ”How Can We Be Lovers,” ”When I’m Back On My Feet Again,” ”Georgia On My Mind,” ”Love Is A Wonderful Thing,” ”Time, Love and Tenderness,” ”When A Man Loves A Woman,” ”Missing You Now,” ”To Love Somebody,” ”Said I Love You…But I Lied,” ”Completely,” ”Can I Touch You…There?” and ”Go the Distance.”
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony had top 40 hits with ”Thuggish-Ruggish-Bone,” ”1st of the Month,” ”Tha Crossroads” ”Look Into My Eyes,” ”If I Could Teach the World” and ”Ghetto Cowboy.”
Tracy Bonham had one hit, the infectious ”Mother Mother” which went to #32.
Jon Bon Jovi and the boys in the band hit the top 40 with ”Keep the Faith,” ”Bed of Roses,” ”In These Arms,” ”Always,” and ”This Ain’t a Love Song.”
Mr. Bon Jovi himself hit with ”Blaze of Glory” and ”Miracle.”
Brent Bourgeois had a solo hit in 1990 with ”Dare To Fall In Love”
Boy Krazy had a top 20 hit with ”That’s What Love Can Do”
The Boys had their last taste of chart success in 1990 with ”Crazy.”
Boyz II Men has massive chart success in the decade – having top 40 hits with ”Uhh Ahh,” ”Let It Snow,” ”Thank You” and ”I Will Get There.” They hit #7 with ”A Song For Mama,” #3 with both ”Motownphilly” and ”In the Still of the Night,” and #2 with ”It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday” and ”Water Runs Dry.” And they hit #1 five times in the decade, first with ”End of the Road” which stayed there for 13 weeks and got them two Grammys. In 1994 they spent another 14 weeks at #1 with ”I’ll Make Love To You,” which also got them two Grammys. Their next single was ”On Bended Knee” which spent six more weeks at #1 and that wasn’t even the end of it. In 1995, ”One Sweet Day” with Mariah Carey spent a whopping 16 weeks in the top spot. And finally, the #1 that everyone forgets, ”4 Seasons of Loneliness” spent a week there in the summer of ’97.
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