1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
1993 Music Hits
In 1993, the top hit songs were quite a shock to the mainstream music industry but the songs' popularity reflected the public's own interests and sent many songwriters and composers back to the drawing board.
Veteran acts such as Meat Loaf regained the top spot letting his fans know that he was still on top of his game after three decades. His hit “I'd Do Anything For Love” was the number one hit of the year 1992 and was followed by UB40's “I Can't Help Falling In Love With You”. It was obvious from these top two hits that the public was very interested in love songs at the time. The group Four Non Blondes showed what they were made of with their song “What's Up?” that caught the public's ear and expanded into more inquisitive songs and lyrics. Following came the group Snow and their song “Informer” and Haddaway's “What is Love”.
The awards given for the year were monumental. For the Grammy Awards Eric Clapton won best record of the year with his ballad to his son who had fallen from a window. Clapton's “Tears In Heaven” brought many a tear to audiences around the world and rightly so won the top honors. He doubled that success with Album of the Year, and Song of the Year.
The top ten albums of the year was led by Whitney Houston from “The Bodyguard” soundtrack. The action/romance movie and soundtrack topped the year's albums followed by Kenny G's “Breathless”, Eric Clapton's “Unplugged”, Janet Jackson's “Janet”, Billy Ray Cyrus' “Some Gave All”, Dr. Dre's “The Chronic”, Spin Doctor's “Pocket Full Of Kryptonite”, Pearl Jam's “Ten”, Garth Brooks' “The Chase”, and “Core” from the Stone Temple Pilots.
In classical music the genre saw such works as Krzysztof Penderecki's “Polish Requiem” revised version, John Adams' “Violin Concerto”, Michael Daugherty's “Bizarro”, Luciano Berio's “Rage and Outrage” and more.
Within the other genres had hits such as “Tell Me Why” by Genesis, “The River Of Dreams” by Billy Joel, “The Red Strokes” by Garth Brooks, “Simple Life” by Elton John, “Bad Girl” by Madonna, “Break It Down Again” by Tears for Fears, “Anya” by Deep Purple, “Come Undone” from Duran Duran, “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M, “Disarm” by Smashing Pumpkins, “Give In To Me” from Michael Jackson, “Creep” from Radiohead and many more.
1993 in the music industry showed that emotion, especially mourning and love drove the industry's top chart hitters.