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. 'A Lot of Mutual Respect': Roxy Music's Ferry and Manzanera Divulge Details of September Arena Tourīut 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.