Four singles into their career, Five solidified their reputation as the - relative - bad boys of late 90s pop music with a Joan Jett sampling anthemic monster of a hit...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 36)
Category: Flashback
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 35)
"One For Sorrow" opened the curtain for Steps' debut album, leaning into their ABBA referencing credentials and starting the rise to their massive global success...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 34)
It took approximately three years for The Corrs to become one of Ireland's biggest musical exports. And it took some timely remixes and a Fleetwood Mac cover to do so...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 33)
Take one member of Daft Punk, a French house pioneer, an old Chaka Khan sample, and what have you got? One of 1998's biggest dance anthems by far...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 32)
For all their adulation and avid fanbase, Boyzone still lacked a huge selling crossover single. That was until Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber entered the equation...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 31)
No other dance DJ and producer felt quite so keenly the pain of being the eternal chart best man - and never the groom - as Sash! did in the 90s...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 30)
"Viva Forever" is widely recognised as one of the Spice Girls' most accompolished ballads - even if it became the unofficial soundtrack to external circumstances around its release...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 29)
Jamiroquai had gone six years deep into their career without earning a number one single. It took a film of monster proportions to do so...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 28)
Deep diving into the great big songbook of 90s R&B baby-making jams paid dividends for many - as it indeed did for Another Level on their freaky second single...
The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 27)
Offering a positive yet rebellious statement of intent, Billie Piper launched off the pages of Smash Hits as its advert girl to become a smash hit in her own right...
The Niche Reference 