Our next 1985 song will start a trend – popular sports-themed songs. For some reason, this year released a round of such songs. Most seemed to be based with baseball, but only this one is completely about the game. If you go to minor league games around the area, you will hear this intro played a lot. Our #13 40 year-old song is Centerfield by John Fogerty.
Our next 1995 song is the literal definition of a one-hit-wonder. How? If you were to look at this band’s Spotify page, the top 3 popular songs on their list are all this song. Yet despite that, it’s hard to argue this song’s placement in the countdown as it’s still a popular song that’s played to this day in various avenues. Coming in at #13 is Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something.
Arguably the smoothest R&B song on this countdown is now here, and unfortunately the hits for this artist would start to slowly decline after this track. The track for a movie based on a very popular book, this song has remained an R&B hit for many such radio stations, and it showed that she still had it. At #14 it’s Exhale (Shoop Shoop) by Whitney Houston.
While this next track in the 1985 countdown might be time-capsuled in the 80s, it’s melody and chorus has managed to remain popular and continues to be heard to this day, and it’s considered an iconic 80s R&B dance song. Ironically, this title is the same of another 1995 track but that one failed to make the countdown. But this one did, coming in at #14 is Rhythm of The Night by DeBarge.
It wasn’t supposed to be a track that would define a cable tv station. But one visit by the artist Sting, and into the microphone he belted the famous words “I want my MTV,” and boom, this song would be arguably this band’s biggest hit. However, like one other artist already, this isn’t their only track in this countdown. But for now, let’s celebrate the anthem that helped define a generation – at #15 it’s Money for Nothing by Dire Straits.
The second quarter of the top 20 songs turning 30 years old this year begins with this rock track featuring a well-known guitar lick and effect. This band appeared in last year’s countdown and this track along with a couple others helped solidified them as one of the premier new hard rock acts of the 90s. Coming in at #15 is December by Collective Soul.