1989
🎂 What music raised you?
Drop your birthday and we'll rewind to your golden era — the years the songs imprinted for life.
🔙 Backtrack — 1989
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
Back in 1989, the day could start with Voltron, drift into a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, and end with you about to wander the mall food court with nowhere to be.
📼 Saturday cartoons
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe👕 tee →
- ThunderCats👕 tee →
- G.I. Joe👕 tee →
- The Smurfs👕 tee →
- Garfield and Friends
- The Real Ghostbusters👕 tee →
- DuckTales👕 tee →
- Inspector Gadget
- Voltron👕 tee →
- Muppet Babies
Billboard Year-End Hot 100
📊 Full chart →- 1
Look AwayChicago - 2
My PrerogativeBobby Brown - 3
Every Rose Has Its ThornPoison - 4
Straight UpPaula Abdul - 5
Miss You MuchJanet Jackson - 6Cold HeartedPaula Abdul
- 7
Wind Beneath My WingsBette Midler - 8
Girl You Know It's TrueMilli Vanilli - 9
Baby, I Love Your WayBig Mountain - 10
Giving You the Best That I GotAnita Baker - 11
Right Here WaitingRichard Marx - 12
Waiting for a Star to FallBoy Meets Girl - 13
Lost In Your EyesDebbie Gibson - 14
Don't Wanna Lose YouGloria Estefan - 15
HeavenWarrant - 16I'm Gonna Miss YouMilli Vanilli
- 17
The LookRoxette - 18
She Drives Me CrazyFine Young Cannibals - 19On Our OwnBobby Brown
- 20
Two HeartsPhil Collins - 21
Blame It On the RainMilli Vanilli - 22Listen to Your HeartRoxette
- 23
I'll Be There for YouBon Jovi - 24
If You Don't Know Me By NowSimply Red - 25
Like a PrayerMadonna
More from 1989
🎤 Big in 1989
🎚️ 1989 genres
🎛️ Behind the boards & the pen — 1989
The hands behind 1989 — the producers and songwriters who actually shaped that year's records. Madonna was on 4 of them.
🎬 Movies of 1989
All soundtracks →The soundtracks that scored 1989 — every song and where it played.
🎚️ Related vibes
All themes →Themed rooms that lean on the sound of 1989.
What does 1989 remind you of?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of 1989.
Community Memories
How well do you remember 1989?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
📼 Take this tape with you
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🎵 1989 albums on vinyl
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