Finnish #1 Chart Hits: 1995
Another year completed in my run-through of the #1 chart hits in Finland, from the mid-1950s to the present day - and we now leave 1995 behind.
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1995 acts largely as a continuation of 1994. Dance music is still the most popular form of music, with all its different strains proving to be equally popular: central Europe keeps dishing out upbeat and melodic Eurodance, the US artists hit the raves with energy and ecstasy, and the UK provides the darker and grimier side of club music. These make up most of the year's charts, and again we're largely bereft of domestic artists as imported talent delivers what the people want to hear. We're still a few years away from the tide changing and the Finns taking back their charts in force - but the day will come.
It's also been fun to remember just how integral to pop culture promotional singles from movie soundtracks used to be. Besides the Barbie OST, I can't remember the last time we had a genuinely big movie soundtrack single and most films don't even bother with them these days. It's been nicely nostalgic to watch all these music videos with film footage awkwardly inserted in the middle of them in various manners - and a few videos where the movie stars bother to make cameos, which is always good.
In general terms, not the most exciting of years with plenty of faff and fluff clogging things up - but the highlights are really among some of the best songs of the 1990s, so there's your counterweight.
Flint's Top 5 Hits of 1995
- Scatman John - Scatman's World
- U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
- Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
- Moby - Everytime You Touch Me
- Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
The Trash Can Award for the Worst #1 of the Year: Sikaduo - Kourin, kourin
Up next is 1996 - when some tides start changing, and we finally get to meet one of the biggest Finnish acts of the 1990s (and going forward).