DEF: Paula Abdul “Cold Hearted”
Paula Abdul hit number one on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart with four songs from her Forever Your Girl album. Exactly 30 years ago, the third of those four songs, “Cold Hearted,” rose to the top of...
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DEF: Paula Abdul “Forever Your Girl”
Four songs from Paula Abdul‘s debut album, Forever Your Girl, hit number one on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Exactly 30 years ago, the second of that quartet of songs, the album’s title track, climbed to the...
DEF: Paula Abdul “Straight Up”
After building a name for herself as a choreographer, Paula Abdul tried her hand at a pop music career and released the album Forever Your Girl in 1988. The album’s first two singles, “Knocked Out”...
DEF: Paula Abdul “(It’s Just) The Way That You Love Me”
In 1989, Paula Abdul‘s singing career broke out when she climbed to number one with her single “Straight Up” and then proceeded to score four more Top 5 hits from her debut album, Forever Your...
25 Years Ago in the Nineties: Paula Abdul “The Promise of a New Day”
California-born singer and dancer Paula Abdul has hit number one on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart six times, all between 1989 and 1991. Exactly 25 years ago, the last of those six chart-topping hits — “The...
25 Years Ago in the Nineties: Paula Abdul “Rush Rush”
In December 1984 and January 1985, Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” spent six weeks at number one on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. It would be six and a half more years before another song spent more...
25 Years Ago in the Nineties: Paula Abdul (Duet With The Wild Pair) “Opposites Attract”
Singer and choreographer Paula Abdul experienced an incredibly successful year between early 1989 and early 1990, becoming famous as a musical recording artist with five straight Top 5 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, four...
Straight Up
Over a roughly three-year period from the beginning of 1989 through the beginning of 1992, Paula Abdul hit number 1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart six times and had two additional Top 10 hits. That run began exactly 25 years...
Rushing to Number One 20 Years Ago Today
In December 1984 and January 1985, Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” spent six weeks at the top of Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Over the next six-and-a-half years, no song would spend more than 4 weeks...
