{"id":599331,"date":"2026-09-13T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599331\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:30:46","slug":"quiz-only-real-90s-kids-can-name-all-32-song-titles-in-5-minutes-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599331\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: Only Real \u201890s Kids Can Name All 32 Song Titles in 5 Minutes or Less"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might be the year 2026, but there\u2019s never a bad time to listen to \u201890s music<\/a>. If you grew up in that decade and still can\u2019t get enough tunes from the likes of Britney Spears and Destiny\u2019s Child or Nirvana and Blink-182, you\u2019ve come to the right place. As a \u201890s kid myself, there\u2019s just something so special about revisiting music of our upbringing. Want to put your knowledge to the test? See if you can name all 32 songs by just the final word in the lyrics:<\/p>\n

Were you able to get every song right? Some of them were easier than others, and the five-minute time limit didn\u2019t take the pressure off. Now that you\u2019ve completed the quiz, there\u2019s no time like the present to fire up a \u201890s playlist. \u201890s house classics, anybody?<\/p>\n

Looking back to the \u201890s<\/a>, it\u2019s impossible to pick a favorite song. It\u2019s a bit easier to determine the most influential of each year of the decade, though. Parsing through the list of Billboard Hot 100 singles of the \u201890s, it\u2019s easy to see which ones reigned supreme\u2014and why they\u2019re still popular tracks today. Let\u2019s break down some of the biggest by the year!<\/p>\n

Biggest \u201890s Songs of Each Year<\/p>\n

1990: The start of the new decade was all about \u201cNothing Compares 2 U\u201d by Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor, \u201cVision of Love\u201d by Mariah Carey, and \u201cBecause I Love You (The Postman Song)\u201d by Stevie B, songs that all spent four weeks in the No. 1 spot in the Billboard charts.<\/p>\n

1991: Two songs reigned supreme in 1991, with Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cBlack or White\u201d and Bryan Adams\u2019s \u201c(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\u201d both holding the No. 1 spot for a whopping seven weeks. <\/p>\n

1992: This was a particularly impressive year for the Billboard charts, with \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d by Whitney Houston claiming the No. 1 spot for an incredible 14 weeks, followed by \u201cEnd of the Road\u201d by Boyz II Men spending 13 weeks on top of the charts.<\/p>\n

1993: The two biggest songs of \u201893 were Janet Jackson\u2019s \u201cThat\u2019s the Way Love Goes\u201d and Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cDreamlover,\u201d which both spent a whole eight weeks in the No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n

1994: Boyz II Men was back at the top of the charts in \u201894, with the biggest song of the year, \u201cI\u2019ll Make Love to You,\u201d holding down the No. 1 spot for 14 weeks. In second place was All-4-One\u2019s \u201cI Swear,\u201d which held the spot for 11 weeks.<\/p>\n

1995: Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men really owned the \u201890s charts, didn\u2019t they? The biggest song in \u201895 was the collaboration between the two artists, with \u201cOne Sweet Day\u201d claiming the No. 1 spot for an incredible 16 weeks.<\/p>\n

1996: The most popular song of \u201896 was no competition, with \u201cMacarena\u201d by Los Del Rio spending 14 weeks at the top of the chart.<\/p>\n

1997: Speaking of 14 days, Elton John spent two whole weeks in the No. 1 spot in \u201897\u2014with two songs. The double A-side single \u201cCandle in the Wind 1997\u201d and \u201cSomething About the Way You Look Tonight\u201d topped the charts for 14 days.<\/p>\n

1998: There was no competition for the biggest song of \u201898. \u201cThat Boy Is Mine\u201d by Brandy and Monica spent 13 weeks in the No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n

1999: And in the final year of the decade, Santana and Rob Thomas had major success with their song \u201cSmooth,\u201d which spent 12 weeks at the top of the chart.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Billboard charts don\u2019t paint the full picture of what we were listening to in the \u201890s. Artists like the Spice Girls, Alanis Morissette, TLC, NSYNC, Tupac Shukar, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were also played everywhere, for example. Listening to music of the \u201890s takes us back to a different time, and the nostalgia<\/a> never fails to hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It might be the year 2026, but there\u2019s never a bad time to listen to \u201890s music. If…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-599331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}