[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBWYuK\_8qgA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBWYuK_8qgA)

I recently stumbled onto this video of old Top 40 from 1995. It actually has quite a versatile selection of albums. Kind of all over from the day’s popular music. Also an ice hockey craze tie-in, from around the World Championship times. That was the first one, so it’s specially nostalgic, huh?

I guess the variation even towards the top 10 or top 5 means that many kinds of people had the money and bought albums.

I remember many of these songs, even though I might not know the albums that well. Or I usually might remember the album coming out but definitely not heard all the songs in it.

A note. There are snippets on which there is only one line of text for the title. Then it’s a S/T album for the artist.

2 comments

  1. One thing that caught my eye is that there is this slump of metal albums slightly outside of top 30. Motörhead, Deicide, and Tarot. But then there’s also White Zombie about ten places higher. I guess this could be just a random coincidence at the time. I mean related to the points in time when each of these records originally came out. Thus also related to how much time each had already spent on the list.

    Another thing is that there are maybe only five electronic dance albums on the list. This is one of the things that people dominantly associate with 90-99 music. Then again, stereotypes are always an exaggeration.

    I also have a question about the Bruce Springsteen Secret Garden music video but maybe I’ll go on and ask it on NoStupidQuestions. I’ll have to ponder about it a little bit.

  2. Without watching, I remember that this Lista Top 40 episode was called Lista Top 4-1 because Finland beat Sweden 4-1 in the IIHF Ice Hockey championship final.

    Finland is a bit of an oddball what comes to albums that end up on the charts. There’s no way bands like Deicide would ever make it there in the UK. Motörhead or some other big names like Iron Maiden could perhaps do it. Finnish Top 40 was usually a mix of everything from Finnish schlagers to the usual pop songs and extreme death metal.

    If you compare this to Top of the Pops, there’s an awful lot of talking and much less actual music.

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