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'' RPM'' was a Canadian magazine that published the best-performing singles of Canada from 1964 to 2000. In 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
, fifteen songs peaked at number one on the magazine's chart. Chumbawamba
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's " Tubthumping" was the first chart-topper of the year while Canadian musician Alanis Morissette
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stayed at number one into 1999
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with " Thank U". Seven musical acts attained their first Canadian number one this year: Matchbox Twenty, Natalie Imbruglia, Fastball, Goo Goo Dolls, Brandy
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, Monica
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, and Jennifer Paige. Two artists reached number one with more than one single: Bryan Adams and Goo Goo Dolls.
The most successful song of the year, as well as the longest-running number-one hit, was "Torn
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" by Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia, which spent 12 nonconsecutive weeks at number one from April to July, interrupted on the week of 15 June by Fastball's " The Way". Two other songs also interrupted a single's reign at number one: " 3 AM" by Matchbox Twenty kept Bryan Adams' " Back to You" off number one for two weeks, and " Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls lost the number-one position on the issue of 17 August to Brandy and Monica's " The Boy Is Mine".
Three Canadian artists reached number one during 1998: Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, and Alanis Morissette. Dion topped the chart for six weeks with " My Heart Will Go On". Besides "Torn" and "My Heart Will Go On", five songs stayed at the summit for at least three weeks: "Back to You" by Bryan Adams, "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, " Crush" by Jennifer Paige, "Sweetest Thing
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" by U2, and "Thank U" by Alanis Morissette. Goo Goo Dolls' "Slide
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" became only the third single to debut at number one on the ''RPM'' Singles Chart, not counting the magazine's first issue.
Chart history
Notes
See also
*1998 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.
Specific locations
* 1998 in British music
* 1998 in Norwegian music
* 1998 in South Korean music
Specific genres
* 1998 in classical music
* 1998 in country music
* ...
* List of ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number ones of 1998 (United States)
* List of number-one singles from the 1990s (New Zealand)
References
External links
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1998 record charts
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...