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1987 Soul Train Music Awards
The 1987 Soul Train Music Awards were the first edition of the annual awards honoring Black music, held March 23, 1987, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
1988 Soul Train Music Awards
The 1988 Soul Train Music Awards was the second annual ceremony, held March 30, 1988 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles and hosted by Dionne Warwick.
1989 (album)
1989 is Taylor Swift's fifth studio album (October 27, 2014, Big Machine), her first full pop record, a synth-pop homage to the 1980s produced with Max Martin; it sold 1.2 million copies in week one, won the 2016 Grammy for Album of the Year, and was re-recorded as 1989 (Taylor's Version) in 2023.
1989 (Ryan Adams album)
1989 (Ryan Adams album): Ryan Adams's 2015 track-by-track cover of Taylor Swift's 1989, released September 21, 2015 on Pax-Am/Blue Note; recorded after a four-track Nebraska-style attempt, reached Billboard number 7, Metascore 69.
1989 (Taylor's Version)
1989 (Taylor's Version) is Taylor Swift's October 27, 2023 re-recording of her 2014 album 1989, the fourth Taylor's Version, with five vault tracks, Christopher Rowe recreating Max Martin's productions, and a 185,000-unit UK Number 1 debut.
1989 Soul Train Music Awards
The 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, held April 12 in Los Angeles, was the third annual ceremony honoring black music, where Anita Baker won three awards.
1990 in music
1990 in music: the transitional chart year between late-1980s dance-pop and the 1991 grunge and hip-hop breakthrough; US sales hit $7.5 billion, cassettes peaked, Janet Jackson and New Kids on the Block topped Billboard.
1990s in music
1990s in music: the decade's popular music, defined by the 1991 hip-hop-driven chart revolution, grunge and alternative rock's mainstream breakthrough, Britpop, R&B's commercial peak, CDs overtaking cassettes, and early digital distribution.
1991 in music
1991 in music: the year SoundScan changed the Billboard charts, N.W.A. became the first rap group at No. 1, and a dense run of releases from Metallica, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana's Nevermind pushed grunge and alternative rock into the mainstream.
1992 in music
1992 in music saw grunge and alternative rock consolidate mainstream success while ballads and R&B dominated the charts, and Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" set a chart record.
1994 Billboard Latin Music Awards
The 1994 Billboard Latin Music Awards, then called the Latin Music Awards, were the first edition, held at Miami's Intercontinental Hotel; Gloria Estefan won three awards and La Mafia took the first Hot Latin Track of the Year.
1994 in music
1994 in music: the festival year of Woodstock '94 (Mudstock), Glastonbury 1994 (Pyramid stage fire, 80,000 attendance, first TV coverage), Lollapalooza after Cobain's death, and landmark albums Definitely Maybe, Parklife, Ready to Die, and Dookie.
1995 in music
1995 in music: Britpop peak with the August 14 Blur–Oasis "Country House" vs "Roll With It" chart battle, Oasis's (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, Radiohead's The Bends; US best-seller Cracked Rear View; Grammys for Sheryl Crow and Springsteen.
1995 Soul Train Music Awards
The ninth annual Soul Train Music Awards (March 13, 1995, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles) honored 1994 achievements by musicians of color. Hosts Anita Baker, Patti LaBelle, and Babyface presided; Baker, Barry White, and Boyz II Men won two awards each, Snoop Doggy Dogg took rap album for Doggystyle, and Brandy was best new artist.
1996 in music
1996 in music: a year in popular music history. Grammy telecast winners (Seal, Alanis Morissette), Billboard year-end charts led by women for the first time, 'Macarena', the launch of the MOBO Awards, and landmark releases in rock and electronic music.
1996 Soul Train Music Awards
The 1996 Soul Train Music Awards, the 10th annual edition, held March 29, 1996 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, hosted by Brandy, LL Cool J, and Anita Baker; D'Angelo and TLC won three awards each.
1997 in music
1997 in music: the year of Radiohead's OK Computer, The Prodigy's U.S. No. 1 The Fat of the Land, the murder of The Notorious B.I.G., the techno boom-and-bust, and the first Internet music sales by Capitol and Prince.
1998 Soul Train Music Awards
The 12th annual Soul Train Music Awards, held February 27, 1998 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, hosted by Patti LaBelle, Heavy D, and Erykah Badu; Badu won four awards for Baduizm and Whitney Houston received the Quincy Jones Award.
1999 (Prince album)
1999, Prince's fifth studio album (Warner Bros., October 27, 1982), a double album of synth-funk built on Oberheim synths and the Linn LM-1 that defined the Minneapolis sound and became his commercial breakthrough.
1999 in music
1999 in music: the CD-era sales peak and chart year. Key facts: Napster launched June 1999, Cher's "Believe" topped Billboard's year-end Hot 100, the Latin pop explosion (Ricky Martin, Santana's "Smooth"), nu metal's peak, Lauryn Hill's Grammy sweep.
1st Annual Grammy Awards
The 1st Annual Grammy Awards, held May 4, 1959 in Los Angeles and New York, honored 1958 recordings in 28 categories; Modugno's Volare and Mancini's Peter Gunn won the top awards.
1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards
The 1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held at Staples Center in Los Angeles on September 13, 2000, with Santana's "Corazón Espinado" winning Record of the Year.
1Verse
1Verse (Korean: 유니버스) is a five-member K-pop boy group debuted in July 2025 by the independent Seoul label Singing Beetle, known for including two North Korean defectors, Hyuk and Seok.
1Z Entertainment
1Z Entertainment (Onez Entertainment Corp.) is a Philippine artist management and music label founded by the five members of SB19, launched October 2023 after leaving ShowBT; it manages SB19 and debuted girl group XONARA.
2 Chainz
2 Chainz (Tauheed Epps, born 1977) is an Atlanta rapper and Grammy winner, formerly Tity Boi of Playaz Circle, whose 2012 debut Based on a T.R.U. Story debuted at No. 1 and whose albums include Pretty Girls Like Trap Music and Welcome 2 Collegrove with Lil Wayne.
2 Cool 4 Skool
2 Cool 4 Skool is BTS's debut single album (Big Hit Entertainment, June 12, 2013), title track "No More Dream", first of the School Trilogy, sold 760 copies in its first week.
2 Hard 4 the Radio
2 Hard 4 the Radio is a 2026 Drake song from ICEMAN, produced by P-Lo and Karri, interpolating Mac Dre's Too Hard for the Fuckin' Radio; it debuted at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and dissed Mustard.
2 Live Crew
Formed in 1984 in California, 2 Live Crew was an American hip-hop group known for its explicit lyrics and bass-heavy beats in the Miami bass genre.
2 On
"2 On" (also "2 On" by Tinashe featuring ScHoolboy Q) is a 2014 R&B single, the lead single from Tinashe's debut album Aquarius, produced by DJ Mustard; it peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went platinum.
2 Unlimited
2 Unlimited: Belgian-Dutch Eurodance act founded 1991 in Antwerp by producers Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde, fronted by Ray Slijngaard and Anita Doth; hits "No Limit", "Get Ready for This", "Twilight Zone"; 18-22 million records; re-formed 2009.