The Five Singles That Prove 1994 Was The Greatest Year In Music
Soundgarden, Mariah Carey, Oasis, Warren G, and STP
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4 min readJun 26, 2021
Remember this viral video of Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel trying to wrap their heads around the internet?
That was 1994.
Before the internet was The Internet.
And back then, Singles mattered — no, not the movie — we’ll get to that later.
I mean music singles.
In an era before The Internet, it was radio (and MTV) that determined what went viral.
And the way to go viral was with a hit single.
In ’94, artists within the music industry produced an incredible variety of songs.
From The Boss on “Streets of Philadelphia” to those Southern Swedish Rednex with “Cotton-Eyed Joe” and everything in between, ’94 had the good, the bad, and the eccentric.
And that variety meant that 1994 was a fantastic year for singles.
