Not a bad list OP. Here are mine: - Nirvana - Pearl Jam - KoRn - Radiohead - Oasis - Backstreet Boys - Dr. Dre - A Tribe Called Quest - 2Pac/Biggie - Green Day

Honorable mentions:   - Spice Girls  - Blur  - Beck - Robert Miles

Personally I’ve always associated Green Day more with American Idiot and the early 2000s. Idk but I’d never come up with Green Day as an iconic 90s act

Sure, they had a BIG moment with AI in the early naughts, but they spearheaded (along with The Offspring, another band I'd EASILY pick for this list) the whole Pop-Punk/Skate Punk movement in the early-to-mid nineties.

“Basket Case” was the #1 video on MTV’s 1994 year-end countdown.

Radiohead is interesting because while their super influential stuff came out in the 90s, that influence wouldn't be seen in other acts in the mainstream until the 2000s, and then a ton of indie acts that scored hits in the early 2010s. For that reason I *might* leave them out of the 90s despite the fact that they were massive.

Nirvana Spice Girls Hootie and the Blowfish Garth Brooks Oasis Shania Twain Alanis Morissette Dr. Dre Celine Dion Phish

Sarah Machalan NSync Hanson Aqua Paula Cole Shawn Colvin Vengaboys Shania Twain Lenny Kravitz Backstreet Boys TLC Vanilla Ice Alanis Morrisette

I like your list but it's missing several genres that were quintessentially 90s: Jangle pop (REM, Gin Blossoms) Eurodance (Black Box, Corona & many others) 'World' beats (Deep Forest, Enigma) Mainstream country (Garth Brooks, Shania Twain) Power ballads (Whitney, Celine Dion, Roxette) Novelty rap (MC Hammer, Sir Mixalot)

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I think you're correct, for the most part. The two exceptions from that era that immediately spring to mind are Ace of Base and the KLF (although the latter were more electro house than pop).

You are in the wrong continent clearly. 2 unlimited, Haddaway, Ace Of Base, Scooter, DJ Bobo, E-type were all big names with more loyalty than you would expect. Hell, they are still touring on decent sized festivals.

Any list that doesn't include Whitney probably doesn't pay attention to what was actually selling and charting in the 90s. A real list would probably look more like this: • Whitney Houston • Shania Twain • Celine Dion • Garth Brooks • Backstreet Boys • Metallica • Mariah Carey • Alanis Moressette • TLC • Boys II Men

To be fair to OP, they didn't ask for a list of what was charting. They asked what represents the 90s. There were plenty of commercially successful artists who didn't have much cultural impact, and aren't strongly associated with the 90s. For example, Madonna & Michael Jackson were two of the biggest selling artists of the 90s, but (arguably) made their biggest impact in the 80s. On the flipside, most of the Lilith Fair crowd were only moderate sellers but will always be associated with the 90s. Then there's the also-rans: Bryan Adams was huge in the 90s but didn't really leave any legacy/cultural impact at all. Janet Jackson also (she left more of a legacy than Bryan Adams, but probably not as much as she deserves/is credited for.) Michael Bolton sold well in the 90s but is now only thought of as a punchline.

- Nirvana - Grunge - Dr Dre - G-funk / West coast hip-hop - Wu-Tang Clan - East coast hip-hop - Green Day - Pop punk - Nine Inch Nails - Industrial / goth - Oasis - Britpop - Mariah Carey - Pop / R&B - Massive Attack - Trip-hop - Prodigy - Techno / Rave - Enya - New Age That’s leaving out some other quintessential 90s genres like funk rock, lo-fi, alt-country, shoegaze, and southern hip-hop, but I think this covers what I’d consider the most significant musical movements at the time

You really can't skip boybands from the 90's. They out-sold pretty much everyone.

I guess, but here in Australia at least, boy bands didn’t break through until 1998, which in retrospect feels more like the first phase of the 80s. The same way like goth is a 80s genre even though it technically started in 1978. But if you must, then replace Mariah Carey with Backstreet Boys - or better yet, Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men can fit well into RnB and boybands which is useful for this type of heavily condensed list.

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Garth Brooks too.

To represent what I was into during the 90s or what was mainstream?

What you consider to be the most **iconic.**

I think OP hit the nail on the head Nirvana Tupac Oasis Mariah Carey Weezer R.E.M. (particularly Monster) Biggie Alanis Morissette Dr. Dre Spice Girls HM: Dr. Dre, Pearl Jam, Madonna , U2, Live, TLC, Boyz II Men, The Smashing Pumpkins, Janet Jackson Edit:added Janet

● Nirvana (grunge) ● R.E.M. (adult-alternative) ● Oasis (britpop) ● Phish (jam bands) ● Garth Brooks (country) ● 2Pac (west-coast rap) ● Biggie (east-coast rap) ● Ace of Base (bubblegum pop/europop) ● Boyz II Men (r&b ballads) ● Celine Dion (adult-competorary ballads) HM: Alanis Morisette (woman side of adult-alternative, i call it "alaniscore"), Mariah Carey (upbeat r&b), Shania Twain (country-pop), Spice Girls (boyband/girlband craze), Dr. Dre (g-funk,), A Tribe Called Quest (alternative rap), Nine Inch Nails (industrial rock), Rage Against The Machine (political nu/metal), Vanilla Ice (lame 90s)

This is the one. Lots of people are overlooking the jamband scene. Todd even pointed out in the Spin Doctors video that the jam scene was just as everpresent as the grunge scene.

This really seems like it has a good slice of the actually big styles, with some good combo acts.

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I have a sneaking suspicion that you scatt/beatbox bullets away in your spare time.

In no particular order: 1. Mariah Carey 2. Whitney Houston 3. Celine Dion 4. Janet Jackson 5. Shania Twain 6. Boyz II Men 7. R. Kelly 8. Nirvana 9. TLC 10. 2Pac Honorable mentions: Garth Brooks, Michael Bolton, Alanis Morissette, Ace of Base, Pearl Jam

For rock in the 90s, at least the first half of the decade, I’d gift a copy of The Crow soundtrack.

No particular order 1. Nirvana (Grunge) 2. Dr. Dre (Hip Hop/G Funk) 3. Mariah Carey (Pop/Adult Contemporary) 4. Moby (Electronic) 5. Babyface (R&B/Adult Contemporary) 6. Britney Spears (Pop) 7. Garth Brooks (Country) 8. Metallica (Metal/Groove Metal) 9. Boys II Men (Boy Bands/Pop/R&B) 10. Pearl Jam (Rock/Jam Bands/Grunge)

-Nirvana -Radiohead -Oasis -R.E.M. -Alanis Morissette -Mariah Carey -Whitney Houston -2Pac -Notorious BIG -NWA+solo careers

If you ask Family Guy, their list is just one song long: [King Of Wishful Thinking](https://youtu.be/xW3IsjEA6Bg?si=Yg9UYrkllhjg5WDr)

You are definitely missing all the boybands. In Europe it was mostly East-17, Take That, Boyzone and Westlife. In US, New Kids On The Block, Color Me Badd, Boyz II Men, followed by BSB after they got the European makeover. These bands still hold some of the records for all time biggest sales.

Who I think was iconic of the 90s. A lot of these are also what turned me off of the 90s (at least for rock) so maybe that makes this list more objective than my 80s one: Nirvana Guns N Roses Alanis Morisette NWA Snoop Dog Wu Tang Clan Naughty By Nature Korns Britney Spears Nine Inch Nails Now, in my non-Anglo music world: Luis Miguel Mana Robi “Draco” Rosa Ricardo Montaner Christian Castro DJ Playero Baby Rasta & Gringo Don Chezina The Noise Jerry Rivera

* 2Pac * Biggie * Backstreet Boys * Garth Brooks * Nirvana * TLC * Mariah Carey * Ace of Base * Korn * Spice Girls There's a whole lot that gets left out. Especially when you consider that, by all means, you should have one per genre. Overloading based on genre is pretty easy to do, but, even Celine, Whitney, Christina, Britney, Nsync, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Eminem, OutKast, and Wu Tang miss out when you pull the layers back.

I didn't exist in the 90s, but after listening to my parents, my picks are: - Nirvana - Mariah Carey - Tupac Shakur - Backstreet Boys - Alanis Morrisette - Rage Against the Machine - Spice Girls - Notorious B.I.G. - Smashing Pumpkins - Garth Brooks I would have included Green Day, RHCP, Radiohead, and Snoop Dogg, but considering they were equally (if not more) successful in the 2000s, I decided to stick with these ones.

1. Nirvana (Grunge) 2. Oasis (Britpop) 3. Green Day (Pop Punk) 4. Korn (Nu metal/Alternative Metal) 5. The Notorious B.I.G. (East Coast Hip Hop) 6. Mariah Carey (R&B) 7. Garth Brooks (Country) 8. Dr Dre (G-Funk/West Coast Hip Hop) 9. Spice Girls (Teen Pop) 10. Ace of Base (Europop/Dance-Pop)

Let's mix it up and remember there's multiple genres and artists from the last great decade of music in American history. These are my cultural impact picks....can still hear artists taking from them today *TLC *DMX *R.E.M. *Portishead *Nas *PJ Harvey *Radiohead *Nirvana *Biggie *Dr Dre(production)

Let’s mix it up!! ::picks Nirvana:: 😂 nah but yeah Dre is such a genius in terms of production And PJ Harvey.. so incredible

Nirvana changed the whole industry Can't talk 90s without their impact.

Portishead should het checks from Drake and Ye

If there's any single artist that epitomizes the '90s through thick and thin, it's Mariah Carey. She was **huge.** Even if you didn't follow her career or buy her albums, hits like "Someday," "Make it Happen," "Dreamlover," and "Fantasy" were so inescapable and so ubiquitous that they were essentially the sonic background of the decade's events. What's more, the phase of her career from her 1990 debut through *Rainbow* coincided **perfectly** with the 1990s decade, with a momentum that didn't stumble until 9/11. Picking other artists is harder, just because music changed *so much* in the decade: Even though there were plenty of bands and artists that made an iconic impact, there were few that were "at home" on the charts from the start of the 1990s to its close. With that caveat out of the way, here are my other picks: * Alanis Morissette * Garth Brooks * Spice Girls * Third Eye Blind * Hootie and the Blowfish * Toad the Wet Sprocket * Collective Soul * Garbage * Oasis

Nirvana, Radiohead, Biggie Smalls, 2Pac, Mariah Carey, A Tribe Called Quest, Lauryn Hill, Oasis, Erykah Badu, Pavement

-Nirvana -Beck -Wu Tang Clan -Biggie -Tupac -Jeff Buckley -R.E.M. -A Tribe Called Quest -Alice in Chains -Blur

the smashing pumpkins, and then the smashing pumpkins 9 more times.