Welcome to our show and we are excited to share decades of music with you in 2022.

Here is my first selection of top 1999 hits which I hope you will enjoy.

Ricky Martin – Livin’ la Vida

“Livin’ la Vida Loca” reached #1 in more than 20 countries, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five consecutive weeks, and becoming Martin’s first #1 single on the chart. It also spent eight consecutive weeks atop the Canada Top Singles chart and topped the country’s year-end chart. In the UK, it debuted at #1 and stayed there for three weeks, making Martin the first Puerto Rican artist in history to hit the top spot. The track was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and Best instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).

January 11th 26th American Music Awards: Celine Dion & Eric Clapton win 

Britney Spears – . . . Baby one more time

“ Baby one more time” was written by Max Martin and became a worldwide hit, topping the charts in at least 22 countries, including the UK, and was the country’s best-selling single of 1999. It was voted by Billboard to be the best music video of the 1990s. In 2020, Rolling Stone named “. . . Baby One More Time” as the greatest debut single of all time. It won a Teen Choice Award for Single of the Year and an MTV Europe Music Award for for Best Song.

February 23rd Hip Hop artist Eminem releases his first major record album ‘The Slim Shady LP’ (Grammy 2000 – Rap album 

Now time for my first picks from 1999 and I hope you will enjoy my selection.

Shania Twain – Man! I Feel Like a Woman

“Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain from her third studio album, Come On Over (1997). Written by Twain and her longtime collaborator and then-husband Robert John “Mutt” Lange, who also produced the track, the song was released first to North American country radio stations in March 1999 as the eighth single from the album, and it was released worldwide later the same year.

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