Rock/Alt Rock
This band was the top rock band in the 90s with hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Heart-Shaped Box".
Nirvana
The artist known as the "King of Pop"
Michael Jackson
This 1993 Snoop Doggy Dogg song features the famous hook, "It's kind of hard being Snoop D-O-double-G"
Gin and Juice
This song by Coolio was to biggest rap single of 1995.
Gangsta's Paradise
This 1993 Eurodance track by Haddaway became a pop-culture staple after being used in an SNL sketch and the film A Night at the Roxbury
What is Love
This band frequently named their albums after colors
Weezer
This Backstreet Boys song is sung in the iconic Brooklyn Nine-Nine cold open
I Want It That Way
This 1992 Sir-Mix-a-Lot song won a Grammy Award and spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100
Baby Got Back
This song by Diane Warren stayed in #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 11 weeks in late 1996.
Hint: Also featured in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Un-Break My Heart
This One-Hit Wonder is 75% Spanish and is the song behind the iconic dance of the same name
Macarena by Los del Rio
Going to a concert of this band gets you into the Bad Place according to Michael
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
This Spice Girls single became their iconic debut track and reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1997.
Wannabe
This iconic duo made up of Big Boi and André 3000 released their groundbreaking debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik in 1994
Outkast
Mariah Carey
The Swedish eurodance group Rednex completely manufactured a fictionalized American country persona for this 1994 song.
Cotton Eye Joe
This 1996 Wilco album, named after the 1979 movie of the same title, is Gold certified in Canada but not in the US.
Being There
The name of the Danish-Norwegian dance-pop group that released the 1997 hit "Barbie Girl"
Aqua
This pioneer of hip-hop was renamed at one after an indigenous Peruvian revolutionary leader
Tupac "2Pac" Shakur
The longest-running number-one song of the 1990s on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
"Closing Time" by Semisonic and written by Dan Wilson was inspired by this event in his life.
The birth of his child
Before finding platinum success with their 1991 album Ten, this band originally performed under the name of NBA player Mookie Blaylock.
Pearl Jam
Before changing their name to Destiny's Child under Mathew Knowles, this R&group competed on Star Search under this name
Girl's Tyme
Jay-Z's 1998 song "Hard Knock Life" featured a sample from a famous Broadway musical for the track's iconic child chorus hook?
Annie
She is the only female solo artist in history to score a Billboard Hot 100 number-one single without having released a full studio album first
Lisa Loeb
This 1997 song cost the band 100% of their royalties for over two decades
Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve