25 Years Ago in the Nineties: Alanis Morissette “Ironic”

Because of the way Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart worked until the late 1990s, where songs had to be released as singles in order to appear on the chart, Alanis Morissette only hit the Top 10 on the chart twice (instead of at least five and possibly even seven times). Exactly 25 years ago, the first of those two Top 10 hits, “Ironic,” rose to a peak position of number 4.