90s Music Quiz with Sound: Test Your Knowledge

Music-related events during the 1990s

Popular music in the 1990s saw the continuation of teen pop and dance-pop trends, while hip hop, reggae, contemporary R&B, and urban music remained extremely popular.
Rock music was also very popular in the 1990s, with grunge, Britpop, industrial rock, and other alternative rock music taking over as the most popular of the decade.
Electronic music grew highly popular in the 1990s with house and techno from the 1980s rising to international success, as well as new electronic dance music genres such as rave, happy hardcore, drum and bass, intelligent dance, and trip hop.
Contemporary country music also rose as a major genre in the 1990s, which had started in the 1980s.
Indie rock gained popularity in the underground scene with bands such as Sonic Youth, Pavement, Archers of Loaf, Sleater-Kinney, and Modest Mouse.
The 1990s saw a resurgence of third wave ska and swing revival, both of which featured a fusion of horn-based music with rock music elements.
Alternative rock entered the musical mainstream, with many alternative bands becoming commercially successful during the decade, including Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and R.E.M.
Alternative metal emerged, which combined elements of alternative rock with heavy metal, typified by bands such as Tool and Jane's Addiction.
Grunge bands were popular during the early 1990s, with Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam bringing alternative rock to popularity in 1991.
Post-grunge emerged as major record labels began signing and promoting bands that were emulating grunge, with bands such as Candlebox, Bush, Collective Soul, and Creed.
Punk rock underwent a resurgence in the early to mid-1990s, with independent record labels achieving commercial success and skate punk breaking into the mainstream with Green Day and Blink-182.
Many subgenres of metal developed outside of the commercial mainstream during the 1980s, with thrash metal achieving break-out success in the early 1990s, and industrial metal and death metal gaining momentum later in the decade.
The singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was revived in the 1990s, with artists such as Mariah Carey, Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos, and Sheryl Crow borrowing from the tradition to create new acoustic-based rock styles.
British girl group Spice Girls managed to break the US market, becoming the most commercially successful British group in North America since The Beatles, and bringing about a widespread invasion of teen pop acts to the US charts.Music of the 1990s
Britney Spears' "Womanizer" was her second No. 1 hit and had the longest gap between No. 1 hits since Cher's "Believe."
Madonna's Erotica was released in 1992 and Ray of Light in 1998, which has sold over 16 million copies worldwide.
Celine Dion achieved worldwide success in the 1990s with best-selling albums such as Falling into You and Let's Talk About Love.
Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston topped the adult contemporary charts with hit singles such as "Vision of Love" and "All the Man That I Need."
Neo soul emerged in the mid-1990s, led by artists such as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell.
The 1990s saw the rise of rap and hip hop, extending from New York City to other cities like Los Angeles, Atlanta, Houston, the Bay Area, Miami, Chicago, and Memphis.
Dr. Dre's The Chronic provided a template for modern gangsta rap, and Snoop Dogg's album Doggystyle was successful in 1993.
Lauryn Hill's debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 1998 and sold over 19 million copies worldwide.
The early 1990s were dominated by female rappers such as Queen Latifah and Salt-N-Pepa.
The mid-1990s saw the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G., which conspiracy theorists claim were killed as a result of the East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry.
The 1990s saw the use of samples and interpolations of old songs in hip hop songs to celebrate the end of the 20th century by going retro.
Prominent rap artists of the 1990s include Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, LL Cool J, Eazy-E, Wu-Tang Clan, Vanilla Ice, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Cypress Hill, MC Hammer, Coolio, Common, OutKast, Three 6 Mafia, Mark Morrison, Tag Team, Mobb Deep, A Tribe Called Quest, Puff Daddy, Will Smith, DMX, Master P, Jay-Z, and Eminem.
Electronic music grew in popularity in the 1990s due to the growth of computers, music technology, and a reduction in equipment costs.Music in the 1990s
Electronic music developed in the 1990s, with genres like "Electronica" and "downtempo" emerging.
Kraftwerk is considered the first band to create music entirely with machines and computers.
Madonna's album Ray of Light experimented with electronica sounds and Moby achieved international success in the ambient electronica scene.
The UK saw outdoor raves being popular before the government introduced the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, leading to the opening of superclubs like Ministry of Sound and Cream.
British genres that emerged include progressive house, big beat, vocal house, trip hop, and UK garage.
DJs like Sasha, John Digweed, and Paul Oakenfold became big names in the business.
Italy saw success with Italo house, Eurodance, and Hi-NRG, while Germany and Belgium developed harder, darker styles of music like gabber, hard trance, and techno.
Trance emerged in the early 1990s and penetrated most of Europe, with artists like ATB, Ferry Corsten, WestBam, and Paul Van Dyk gaining huge commercial and underground success.
Country music saw a resurgence in the early 1990s, with Garth Brooks, Clint Black, and Alan Jackson being some of the most notable performers.
Pop-influenced country music became popular with artists like Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, and Faith Hill.
Britpop bands like Blur, Suede, Pulp, Ash, Elastica, Supergrass, the Verve, and Oasis regularly topped the charts in the early 1990s.
Shoegaze, an indie and alternative rock subgenre, emerged with bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, Lush, Pale Saints, and Chapterhouse.Music Trends of the 1990s
The Corrs and The Proclaimers achieved international success during the 1990s.
European pop artists of the 1990s included Seal, M People, 2 Unlimited, and Ace of Base.
Boy bands such as Take That and East 17 competed with Irish bands Westlife and Boyzone until the Spice Girls emerged as one of the most successful and influential pop acts of the decade.
Ballad songs were popular during this decade, and popular European artists included George Michael, Robert Palmer, Sade, Sinéad O'Connor, the Cranberries, Lisa Stansfield, Roxette, and Michael Learns to Rock.
Los del Río popularized the dance craze "Macarena" with their summer hit "Macarena" in 1996.
Electronic music saw the development and refinement of IDM (intelligent dance music) and the rise of Eurodance and the trance genre.
Acid jazz saw a rise in popularity in the early part of the decade, with acts such as Jamiroquai, Incognito, the Brand New Heavies, Us3, the James Taylor Quartet, Stereo MCs, Ronny Jordan, Galliano, and Corduroy.
Latin America saw the rise of pop idols such as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, Thalía, Lynda Thomas, Chayanne, Paulina Rubio, Gloria Trevi, No Mercy, Shakira, Fey, Enrique Iglesias, and Ricky Martin.
Spanish-language rock, led by bands like Soda Stereo, Héroes del Silencio, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Maná, La Ley, Café Tacuba or Los Tres, gained large international followings during this period.
Salsa and cumbia music spread throughout Latin America and became increasingly popular as dance music in the US and Europe.
INXS and Crowded House continued their success in Australia and New Zealand, while OMC's single "How Bizarre" became the most successful New Zealand song in history.
J-Pop was a major trend in the late 1990s, with top-charting artists including Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki, Every Little Thing, and Hikaru Utada.
The 1990s saw a revival of interest in local music in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore, with local artists outselling foreign ones in these regions.