1999, what a fun year to close out the millennium. Everyone was partying like there was no tomorrow, and the music of that year really showed it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsV500W4BHU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

The second Austin Powers movie was released that year; its soundtrack featured Lenny Kravitz's cover of the Guess Who's "American Woman", as well as a song from Madonna entitled "Beautiful Stranger". For the latter, I couldn't find a Youtube clip that had just the song, so I had to settle for the music video as a whole; here's a link where the song begins: right here

And here's "American Woman":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzWHE32IxUc

The second Austin Powers movie was released that year; its soundtrack featured Lenny Kravitz's cover of the Guess Who's "American Woman", as well as a song from Madonna entitled "Beautiful Stranger". For the latter, I couldn't find a Youtube clip that had just the song, so I had to settle for the music video as a whole; here's a link where the song begins: right here

And here's "American Woman":



I like his version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_742IwPgqAQ

Lou Bega- Mambo No.5

Lou Bega- Mambo No.5

I enjoyed that song. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_742IwPgqAQ

Lou Bega- Mambo No.5
That song was used as a theme tune for a cricket program, and brings back memories for me.

Lou Bega- Mambo No.5
I remember Radio Disney had their own version where they replaced the girls' names with the names of Disney characters.

Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KboCLgKIhTk

1999, what a fun year to close out the millennium. Everyone was partying like there was no tomorrow, and the music of that year really showed it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0




Good song. Always liked Dave Grohl, he is so funny too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0bPrt69rag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4VK9_CfOLQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJZTfl3DmCU
These guys are hot  :-*

Two memorable dance hits from my freshman year of HS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwIbXJSwIMk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0p_ZvDaXXQ

YEAH BABY!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD5phTXGN_0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPfovXw2tw

Brian McKnight - Back At One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDraSPMBQtM

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Alright who's the wise @$$ starting April Fool's day this early in the year?  ::)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emguA0RIH4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p47fEXGabaY

Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG_-m-mBn-g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz36fINs_YY

This song was released towards the end of 1999. I'm not a huge fan of her but I love this song, it's so beautiful and uplifting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wbugWrfLU

This song was released towards the end of 1999. I'm not a huge fan of her but I love this song, it's so beautiful and uplifting.


Yes, this is one of Celine Dion's more "lively" songs. I enjoy it too. 8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGywwdMn690

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5LW07FTJbI

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I have that song as my ringtone  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nDq1HoNm-E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmmjtzDrdGk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpspGHeLOPE

NKOTB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijXcYLV1aNg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-221CykxBXg

Matchbox Twenty's debut album, Yourself Or Someone Like You, which was released in early 1997, had four tracks that became hits on the charts. The last one, "Back 2 Good", became a hit in early 1999.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkjyQt3xv8

This song, at roughly 5 1/2 minutes, often got cut down on radio airplay. Some stations cut out the second-to-last verse (3:29-4:18), while others would cut out the last verse (4:19-5:16). Very rarely would I hear the whole thing on the radio.

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Seriously, this is the video that took me from N'Sync and got me on the BSB train, because I loved Howie Dorough--the cute one with the slicked back hair, and gave up Lance Bass. Go ahead laugh...I know now...I know now.... :) To put it in perspective. BSB had it for me in group form, what MJ had for me as a solo artist. It was that serious when I was 13.

Enrique Iglesias - Rhythm Devine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZrzOZaI7UE

There was also Santana's comeback album, Supernatural, which contained the singles "Smooth" (featuring vocals by Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas; it was a huge hit during the latter half of the year) and "Maria Maria" (featuring The Product G&B), as well as "Put Your Lights On" (featuring Everlast, who earlier in 1999 had a hit single with "What It's Like").

1999 is one of those years that, music wise, brings me a rush of both nostalgia and embarrassment. By and large, the popular music of that time was pretty horrible, but 12-year-old me certainly loved it, and seeing all of these videos posted here brings back many great memories.

I was big into rock at that time, so two somewhat forgotten songs I listened to quite a bit in '99 were:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5iTNVEOAg

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSCKWfJlXs

Uh, some to these songs belong to the year 2000, not 1999.

Uh, some to these songs belong to the year 2000, not 1999.
1999 and 2000 were very similar in terms of pop culture, so you can't really blame people for getting them mixed up so easily.

1999 and 2000 were very similar in terms of pop culture, so you can't really blame people for getting them mixed up so easily.


Songs are definitely recent for more than one year. That's totally normal. There were songs in a year that have been released on an album and the song has been rereleased as a single a year later... That was also the case in 99/00.

Songs are definitely recent for more than one year. That's totally normal. There were songs in a year that have been released on an album and the song has been rereleased as a single a year later... That was also the case in 99/00.


Yeah, but some of these 1999 songs didn't hit the top 40 until 2000. Therefore, they aren't 1999 songs, but 2000 songs. If a song hits the top 40 in 1999, then it is both a 1999 and 2000 song.

Yeah, but some of these 1999 songs didn't hit the top 40 until 2000. Therefore, they aren't 1999 songs, but 2000 songs. If a song hits the top 40 in 1999, then it is both a 1999 and 2000 song.


That's your definition ;)

Yeah, but some of these 1999 songs didn't hit the top 40 until 2000. Therefore, they aren't 1999 songs, but 2000 songs. If a song hits the top 40 in 1999, then it is both a 1999 and 2000 song.


Which songs do you mean by the way?

Which songs do you mean by the way?


Sonique - It feels so good
Celine Dion - That's the way it is
Third Eye Blind - Never let you go
Christina Aguilera - What a girl wants

These were some of the biggest hits of the year 2000. I don't know if they hit the top 40 in 1999 here in America, but the songs that I listed really should have been posted in the "2000: The year in music" thread.

Seriously, this is the video that took me from N'Sync and got me on the BSB train, because I loved Howie Dorough--the cute one with the slicked back hair, and gave up Lance Bass. Go ahead laugh...I know now...I know now.... :) To put it in perspective. BSB had it for me in group form, what MJ had for me as a solo artist. It was that serious when I was 13.


I was 23 when this song came out.  I had been following this band from the very beginning.  They were immensely popular in Canada just like the New Kids On The Block.
I don't know what drew me to them? Probably because they were young when they started.  I still do love them.  Alas all of them grew up, got married, and four of them have kids.  Oh well.  I can still dream about them right?

Sonique - It feels so good
Celine Dion - That's the way it is
Third Eye Blind - Never let you go
Christina Aguilera - What a girl wants

These were some of the biggest hits of the year 2000. I don't know if they hit the top 40 in 1999 here in America, but the songs that I listed really should have been posted in the "2000: The year in music" thread.
That's the way it is actually peaked in December 1999. I also explicitly remember hearing that song on huge radio in 1999.

That's the way it is actually peaked in December 1999. I also explicitly remember hearing that song on huge radio in 1999.


No, you're wrong. It peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending Saturday, March 4, 2000: http://books.google.com/books?id=fw4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA128&lpg=PA120&focus=viewport&output=html_text

The song's peak the previous year was at #30 on the week ending Saturday, December 25, 1999:http://books.google.com/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA84&lpg=RA1-PT1&focus=viewport&output=html_text

Proof that it's peak was at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100:http://www.billboard.com/artist/298857/celine+dion/chart

It was the 28th most successful song of the year 2000: http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/2000

I was 23 when this song came out.  I had been following this band from the very beginning.  They were immensely popular in Canada just like the New Kids On The Block.
I don't know what drew me to them? Probably because they were young when they started.  I still do love them.  Alas all of them grew up, got married, and four of them have kids.  Oh well.  I can still dream about them right?


Can you show us a picture of you when you were 23?

Can you show us a picture of you when you were 23?


I have a picture of myself somewhere.  :)

"Say It Again" was the United Kingdom entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, written by Paul Varney and performed by girl band Precious.
The song received 38 points, placing 12th in a field of 23.

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Fast Ball is known for the hit "The Way" but they also released this gem, "Out Of My Head".  A sweet song about falling for a friend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd2aeZhu9xY

Vertical Horizon - Everything you want
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Amber
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1iVUXOClAw
The Thunderpuss mix was popular
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR4QGsASbGg
One other, slow version of the song the Afterlife mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liSOi6sr7ac

"Do That To Me One More Time"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpiKQJeAsUE

Madonna's fifth single from Ray Of Light, Nothing Really Matters, was released this year
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She also released Beautiful Stranger from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Snagged Me later in the year
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Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
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Montell Jordan - Get It On Tonite
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Madonna's fifth single from Ray Of Light, Nothing Really Matters, was released this year

I don't remember that one.




She also released Beautiful Stranger from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Snagged Me later in the year


But I do remember this one...it was a big hit on the charts and received generous radio airplay during the summer months :)

Fast Ball is known for the hit "The Way" but they also released this gem, "Out Of My Head".  A sweet song about falling for a friend.


I think I might've posted that one earlier in this thread, but it's a nice little song. Kinda short, at 2 minutes and some seconds, but it has a nice message in it, and often times I like to listen to it when I feel down. :)

I think I might've posted that one earlier in this thread, but it's a nice little song. Kinda short, at 2 minutes and some seconds, but it has a nice message in it, and often times I like to listen to it when I feel down. :)

Yeah it does have a good message 😊

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1999 was such a terrible year for music...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

1999 was such a terrible year for music...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc


I always thought the song was pretty great, but not the music video. Especially when that song was used in a lot of AMVs during the late 2000s on YouTube.

I always thought the song was pretty great, but not the music video. Especially when that song was used in a lot of AMVs during the late 2000s on YouTube.


I liked that song too, but in my eyes, music was starting to go downhill in 1999. Too pop for my taste.

However, music sales in America was at its peak in 1999. Albums and singles were selling like hotcakes.

I always thought the song was pretty great, but not the music video. Especially when that song was used in a lot of AMVs during the late 2000s on YouTube.


To be honest, I actually prefer the music video over the song. :P

But in all seriousness, I don't hate the song, although it definitely isn't one of my favourites. It's always good to listen to just for a joke. ;)

But in all seriousness, I don't hate the song, although it definitely isn't one of my favourites. It's always good to listen to just for a joke. ;)

I think so too, regarding the song. ("Blue (Da Be Dee)" - Eiffel 65) Early on it was one of my guilty pleasures. :D

"Flying Without Wings" is a song released by Irish boy band Westlife from their self-titled debut studio album (1999).

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"Flying Without Wings" is a song released by Irish boy band Westlife from their self-titled debut studio album (1999).

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I remember how in elementary, we used to have trays that we brought to school, and when I dropped my tray, I used to joke, "This tray is flying without wings!"

I remember how in elementary, we used to have trays that we brought to school, and when I dropped my tray, I used to joke, "This tray is flying without wings!"
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I liked that song too, but in my eyes, music was starting to go downhill in 1999. Too pop for my taste.


A lot of people from 2006 would probably agree with you. Especially when they were nostalgic for the 80s/early-mid 90s.


However, music sales in America was at its peak in 1999. Albums and singles were selling like hotcakes.


That's what probably made the Y2K era look unique compared to other eras from the 90s.

"You Needed Me" is a song written by Randy Goodrum, who describes it as being about "unconditional undeserved love." It was a number one hit single in the United States in 1978 for Canadian singer Anne Murray. In 1999, Irish pop band Boyzone recorded a hit cover of the song that hit number one in the UK Singles Chart.

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One of the very few decent songs, in my opinion, which were released in 1999. If i'm not mistaken, this was released towards the end of the year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8MAHQhKe7Q

One of the worst songs released in 1999. I absolutely loathe this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cqU1pFRqYE

One of the very few decent songs, in my opinion, which were released in 1999. If i'm not mistaken, this was released towards the end of the year.
Filter - "Take a Picture"

Yes, it was. I remember it. Some radio stations played a shorter version of it.

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Edwin McCain, "I Could Not Ask For More":

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This was a track from his second album, Messenger, and his second hit overall. He kinda faded away after that.

Sixpence None the Richer's version of "There She Goes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68MKLkNSMN4

Also, the live original version of Aaron Lewis and Fred Durst's "Outside" (the one with "I'm feelin' those lighters"). I can't recall if this came on the radio in 1999 or 2000, but I think it was 1999. Perhaps Nally knows. It feels like both years to me, so I probably heard it a lot during both those years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc3Za3jfvJg

I member watching TRL every day for weeks just to hear these Incubus songs.

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This is a good song from 1999; "Push It" by Static-X. It was released just ten days after I was born. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0MfBG5-Uo

Man, this thread never ceases to give me some awesome nostalgia. It's funny because some of the worst songs from 1999 are also some that make me feel the most nostalgic. All I can say is that I was a middle schooler at the time, and 6th graders are not exactly known for their quality taste of music.

Here's another song that is cheesy as hell, but makes me feel serious nostalgia for 1999.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20

I member watching TRL every day for weeks just to hear these Incubus songs.



Both of those were from the band's album Make Yourself, which of course was released in October of that year. One other track from it, "Drive", didn't become a hit until two years later.

"She" is a song written by Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer and released by Charles Aznavour as a single in 1974. The song was written as a theme tune for the British TV series Seven Faces of Woman. Elvis Costello recorded a cover version of the song in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film Notting Hill. This version of the song peaked at number 19 in the United Kingdom, giving Costello his first top 20 hit in the United Kingdom in 16 years.

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"The Prayer" is a popular song written by David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager, Alberto Testa and Tony Renis. It is most commonly known as a duet between Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli. It is from Quest for Camelot: Music from the Motion Picture, the second single from Dion's Christmas album These Are Special Times and the first from Bocelli's album Sogno and was released as a promotional single on 1 March 1999. The song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Quest For Camelot" in 1999 and a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 2000.

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J Lo, "Waiting for Tonight"... TLC, "No Scrubs"... the list goes on...

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"When You Say Nothing at All" is a country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz. It was a hit song for three different performers: Keith Whitley, who took it to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart on December 24, 1988; Alison Krauss, whose version was her first solo top-10 country hit in 1995; and Irish pop singer Ronan Keating, whose version was his first solo single and a chart-topper in the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand in 1999, and song was recorded infor the soundtrack to the film Notting Hill and also appeared on Keating's debut solo album, Ronan.

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"Miss Otis Regrets" is a song composed by Cole Porter in 1934, and first performed by Douglas Byng in Hi Diddle Diddle, a revue that opened on October 3, 1934, at London's Savoy Theatre. Released in 1999, As Time Goes By is the tenth solo album by the British singer Bryan Ferry, it consists of popular songs and jazz standards. The song contains a dark story.

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I think I might've posted that one earlier in this thread, but it's a nice little song. Kinda short, at 2 minutes and some seconds, but it has a nice message in it, and often times I like to listen to it when I feel down. :)


I almost always think of that little song when I split up with somebody so it makes it a sad song. But other than that it has a great organ part.

Other songs I remember from 99 are by Sugar Ray, especially Someday. The singer had a great voice with a melancholy quality to it.

Then was Give It To You by Jordan Knight. IMO One of the dumbest songs I ever heard but certainly memorable.

Spring of 99 was when I bought my first house.

Imo, 1999 is one of the best and strongest years in pop music history. Smooth, Livin' La Vida Loca, Better Days, Mambo No. 5, Praise You, All Star, Scar Tissue, and No Scrubs are my favorites from that year.

Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos


Yep, latin pop was huge during that era. (And I remember this song very well; it was a favourite of mine.)

Enrique was of course a second-generation singer (the son of Julio Iglesias, who scored a number of hits in both English and Spanish during his career). Nothing like following in your dad's footsteps. O0

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Ricky Martin: Livin La Vida Loca

I was stunned when I found out that Ricky Martin is gay.  But I was happy for him when he did come out because it meant that he didn't have to hide how he is anymore.
This could have ruined him but it hasn't ruined him at all and now Ricky is living a very quiet life with his husband and his children.  I really wish that gay celebrities wouldn't feel so ashamed of who they are. 
It must have been quite difficult for Ricky to keep his sexuality to himself knowing that he had an image to protect.

When it came down to top 40 hits and the like, I've seen 1999 as the best year when it came down to pop music, just so many bangers came out that year, especially that summer.