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List Of RPM Number-one Dance Singles Of 1991
These are the ''RPM magazine'' Dance number one hits of 1991. Chart history See also * 1991 in Canadian music * List of RPM number-one dance singles chart (Canada) References External links * Read abou''RPM Magazine''at the AV Trust * Search ''RPM'' charthereat Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada (LAC; french: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is th ... {{Canadian Singles Canada Dance Dance 1991 RPM electronic dance music chart Dance music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RPM (magazine)
''RPM'' ( and later ) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. ''RPM'' ceased publication in November 2000. ''RPM'' stood for "Records, Promotion, Music". The magazine's title varied over the years, including ''RPM Weekly'' and ''RPM Magazine''. Canadian music charts ''RPM'' maintained several format charts, including Top Singles (all genres), Adult Contemporary, Dance, Urban, Rock/Alternative and Country Tracks (or Top Country Tracks) for country music. On 21 March 1966, ''RPM'' expanded its Top Singles chart from 40 positions to 100. On 6 December 1980, the main chart became a top-50 chart and remained this way until 4 August 1984, whereupon it reverted to a top-100 singles chart. For the first several weeks of its existence, the magazine did not compile a national chart, but simply printed the cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystal Waters
Crystal Waters (born November 19, 1961) is an American house and dance music singer and songwriter, best known for her 1990s dance hits " Gypsy Woman", " 100% Pure Love", and 2007's " Destination Calabria" with Alex Gaudino. All three of her studio albums produced a Top 40 hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. In December 2016, '' Billboard'' magazine ranked her as one of the most successful dance artists of all time. Her accolades include six ASCAP Songwriter awards, three American Music Award nominations, an MTV Video Music Award nod, four ''Billboard'' Music Awards and twelve No. 1 ''Billboard'' Dance Chart hits. Her hit song "Gypsy Woman” has been sampled hundreds of times. Though her music sales have yet to be re-certified, Waters has sold over 7 million records worldwide. Life and career Early life Born in Deptford Township, New Jersey, Waters is the daughter of Junior Waters, a famed jazz musician, and his wife Betty. Her great-aunt, Ethel Waters, was one of the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Or White
"Black or White" is a single by the American singer Michael Jackson. It was released by Epic Records on November 11, 1991, as the first single from Jackson's eighth studio album, ''Dangerous'' (1991). Jackson wrote, composed, and produced it with Bill Bottrell. The song is a fusion of pop rock, dance and hip hop. Epic Records described it as "a rock 'n' roll dance song about racial harmony". "Black or White" reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on December 7, 1991, making it the fastest US chart topper since the Beatles' "Get Back". It stayed there for a total of seven weeks. Jackson became the first artist to have number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100, in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s with the song. It is certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Around the world, "Black or White" hit number one in 20 countries, including the US, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Denmark, Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
"Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" is a song by American hip-hop group P.M. Dawn, released in August 1991 as the second single from their debut album, '' Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience'' (1991). It is built around samples of Spandau Ballet's "True", the Soul Searchers' " Ashley's Roachclip", and the Bob James version of Paul Simon's " Take Me to the Mardi Gras", with the remainder of the song written by P.M. Dawn vocalist Attrell "Prince Be" Cordes. Only Prince Be and "True" writer Gary Kemp were credited for writing the track. The song was P.M. Dawn's first and only number-one hit on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and it was the first number-one song after the debut of the Nielsen SoundScan system, which monitored airplay and sales more closely than before, when ''Billboard'' had to rely on manual sales reports and airplay data. According to the test charts of the SoundScan system, "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" was at number one for at least thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CeCe Peniston
Cecilia Veronica "CeCe" Peniston (; born September 6, 1969) is an American singer and former beauty queen. In the early 1990s, she scored five number one hits on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play. Her signature song "Finally" reached the number 5 spot on the Hot 100 and number 2 in the UK Top 75. Peniston has performed at private engagements for Aretha Franklin's private birthday party in Detroit, Michigan, Pope John Paul II in Rome at the Vatican (as a member of the gospel band Sisters of Glory) and the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, during both of his inauguration ceremonies in Washington, D.C. She was the first foreign female entertainer to perform in post-apartheid South Africa. According to Peniston, her vocal range vacillates between "five to seven octaves". In February 2011, Peniston signed a record deal with West Swagg Music Group/Bungalo Records, with full distribution through Universal Music Group Distribution, and announced relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finally (CeCe Peniston Song)
"Finally" is the 1991 debut single by American singer and songwriter CeCe Peniston from her debut album, ''Finally'' (1992). It became Peniston's first (and biggest) hit song, peaking at number five on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in January 1992 and becoming her only US top-ten hit to date. Prior to that, the track was a major success on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play chart, where it spent two weeks at number one in late 1991. In addition, a dance remix of the song (the "Choice Mix") peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in March 1992. The remix appeared on many dance music compilations in the early '90s. Background and release Peniston grew up in Phoenix and began writing pop songs during school. The words of "Finally" were purportedly penned during a chemistry class, while thinking about dating in college. In 1989 and 1990, she won the Miss Black Arizona pageant, and took the Miss Galaxy pageant a short time later. Her music career began in January 1991, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa L
Vanessa may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Vanessa'' (Millais painting), an 1868 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais * ''Vanessa'', a 1933 novel by Hugh Walpole * ''Vanessa'', a 1952 instrumental song written by Bernie Wayne and performed by Hugo Winterhalter * ''Vanessa'', a song by Grimes and d'Eon from Darkbloom * ''Vanessa'' (opera), a Samuel Barber opera that premiered in 1958 * ''Vanessa'' (1977 film), a 1977 West German film featuring Olivia Pascal * ''Vanessa'' (Mexican TV series), 1982 Mexican telenovela starring Lucía Méndez * ''Vanessa'' (UK TV series), British talk show presented by Vanessa Feltz * ''Vanessa'', former name of Canadian television channel Vivid TV People * Vanessa (name), a female given name and list of persons named Vanessa * Esther Vanhomrigh, for whom Jonathan Swift coined the name Fictional characters * Vanessa (''King of Fighters''), a character in SNK Playmore's ''The King of Fighters'' video game series * Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Running Back To You
"Running Back to You" is the lead single from American singer and actress Vanessa Williams' second studio album, '' The Comfort Zone'' (1991). It features samples from The J.B.'s "The Grunt" (1970) and John Davis and the Monster Orchestra's "I Can't Stop" (1976). The single became one of the biggest hits of her career; it topped ''Billboard''s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for two weeks from October 5 to October 12, 1991 and reached number eighteen on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. A colorful music video, directed by Ralph Ziman, was shot for the single. Williams performed the song on ''The Arsenio Hall Show'' in 1991. At the Grammy Awards in 1992, the song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance The Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (previously called Best Rhythm and Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Female) was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards .... Track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makin' Happy
"Makin' Happy" is a song by American singer and songwriter Crystal Waters, released in 1991 as the second single from her debut studio album, '' Surprise'' (1991). It was the follow-up to Waters' hugely successful song " Gypsy Woman" and achieved moderate success in European countries. In the US, the song spent one week at number-one on the ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart and it also reached the top of the Canadian ''RPM'' Dance/Urban chart. In the United Kingdom, the single peaked at number 18. Critical reception Alex Henderson from AllMusic complimented the song as a "highly addictive and enjoyable house/ neo-disco fare". Larry Flick from ''Billboard'' described it as "a frenetic and hypnotic jam". He remarked that it "maintains a similar deep house vibe s her first single Waters more than proves her songwriting talent here, while her unique feline vocals will test some and delight others." Andy Kastanas from ''The Charlotte Observer'' declared it as "a housy tune that's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The KLF
The KLF (also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the JAMs, the Timelords and other names) are a British electronic band formed in London in 1987. Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as the JAMs. As the Timelords, they recorded the British number-one single "Doctorin' the Tardis", and documented the process of making a hit record in a book '' The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)''. As the KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered stadium house (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and, with their 1990 LP ''Chill Out'', the ambient house genre. The KLF released a series of international hits on their own KLF Communications record label and became the biggest selling singles act in the world in 1991. From the outset, the KLF adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novels ''The Illuminatus! Trilogy'', making anarchic situationist manifestatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy D & The Boyz
Dwight Arrington MyersCuda, Heidi Sigmund Keeping it reel. ''Vibe'' ("born Dwight Arrington Myers")Samuels, Anita M. (January 12' 1996)Heavy D, the C.E.O. ''New York Times'' (May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011), known professionally as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-born American rapper, record producer, and actor. Myers was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a group that included dancers/hype men G-Whiz (Glen Parrish) and "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), as well as DJ and producer Eddie F (Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizeable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. The five albums the group released included production mainly by Teddy Riley, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Myers's cousin Pete Rock, and "in-house" beatmaker Eddie F. Myers also released four solo albums and discovered Soul for Real and Monifah.allmusic Biography/ref> Early life Dwight Arrington Myers was born on May 24, 1967, in Mandeville, Manchester, Jamaica, the son of nurse Eulahlee Lee and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now That We Found Love
"Now That We Found Love" (also known as "Now That We've Found Love") is a song written by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff and originally recorded by American R&B/soul vocal group The O'Jays for their seventh album, ''Ship Ahoy'' (1973). Heavy D and the Boyz version American group Heavy D & the Boyz released their very successful dance/ house-cover of "Now That We Found Love" in 1991. It was produced by Teddy Riley and remains their biggest hit. The song was released as the second single from their third album, ''Peaceful Journey'' (1991), and peaked at number two in the UK and number 11 in the US. Critical reception Jesse Ducker from Albumism described the song as "a catchy and extremely successful pairing with producer Riley, featuring Aaron Hall’s powerful vocals on the chorus. The song takes some of its inspiration from the O'Jays' song of the same name, but has the most in common with reggae group Third World’s version of the track. Heavy D plays to his strengths her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
