During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Heart in Motion, the latter of which included the No. 1 single " Baby Baby ".

In the 1970s Clannad made their mark initially in the folk and traditional scene, and then subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional Celtic and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s, incorporating elements from New Age, smooth jazz, and folk rock.

By the 1990s, many of these bands and artists had disbanded, were no longer performing, or were being carried by independent labels because their music tended to be more lyrically complex ( and often more controversial ) than mainstream Christian pop.

* Euphoria ( Australian band ), a 1990s Australian pop / dance trio

Several primarily freestyle artists released ballads during the 1980s and early 1990s that crossed over to the pop charts and charted higher than their previous work.

It was further popularized during the 1990s by Andrew Harvey and others, and entered mainstream pop culture in 2003 with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

Hee Haw continued to pop up in reruns ( see below for details ) throughout the 1990s and later during the following decade, in a series of successful DVD releases from Time Life.

* Lincoln ( band ), an American nerd pop band of the late 1990s

Their 2001 book, Spreading Misandry, analyzed " pop cultural artifacts and productions from the 1990s " from movies to greeting cards for what they considered to be pervasive messages of hatred toward men.

While the format has no particular standard identity, most " mix " stations have rotations consisting largely of pop and rock music from the 1980s and 1990s ( and often the 1970s ), with some current material mixed in.

In addition, stations devoted to the pop music of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s on their own have developed as the audiences that grew up with that music grew older and nostalgic for the sounds of their youth.

Rock bands of the 1980s and 1990s including Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Tool, Alice in Chains and Rage Against the Machine have been identified as laying groundwork for the development of nu metal by popularising elements of the genre, such as combining aggressive riffs with pop structures and drawing influence from a variety of genres within and outside of heavy metal.

In the UK the Madchester scene influenced the early sound of 1990s Britpop bands like Blur, and Oasis who drew on 1960s psychedelic pop and rock, particularly on the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants ( 2000 ).

Rolling Stone magazine changed its format in the 1990s to appeal to younger readers, often focusing on young television or film actors and pop music.

* New Radicals, an American pop rock band from the 1990s

Credited for being the pioneers that paved the way for the commercial breakthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s, their debut album, Spice, sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in music history.

Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s.

In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops.

In the late 1990s, actresses, pop singers, and other entertainment celebrities began gradually replacing models on fashion magazine covers and ad campaigns.

In the 1990s and the 2000s, many pop music performers rose to fame.

Some 1990s and 2000s rock and pop bands use a double bass, such as Barenaked Ladies ; Indie band The Decemberists ; and punk rock / psychobilly groups such as The Living End, Nekromantix, The Horrorpops, and Tiger Army.

This money represented the bulk of the K Foundation's funds, earned by Drummond and Cauty as The KLF, one of the United Kingdom's most successful pop groups of the early 1990s.

He came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among pre-teen and teenage audiences during the early-first decade of the 21st century .< ref name =" showbuzz ">

* Hollywood, a 1990s female UK / Swedish electro pop duo, part of the Romo movement

A " second wave " arose in the early 1990s, spearheaded by Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal and Emperor.

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.

The microgenre solidified into its most commonly recognized form in the early 1990s, with the sounds of bands such as Man Is the Bastard, Crossed Out, No Comment, Capitalist Casualties, and Manpig.

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

Alternative rock grew out of the grunge scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s and is particularly favored by college radio and adult album alternative stations ; there is a strong focus on songwriters and bands with an outsider sound or a more sophisticated sound than the " three chord wonder " cliché.

In the 1990s, the queercore movement developed around a number of punk bands with gay, lesbian, or bisexual members such as God Is My Co-Pilot, Pansy Division, Team Dresch, and Sister George.

By the 1990s, punk rock was sufficiently ingrained in Western culture that punk trappings were often used to market highly commercial bands as " rebels ".

There were occasional mainstream acts that dabbled in neo-psychedelia, including Prince's mid-1980s work and some of Lenny Kravitz's 1990s output, but it has mainly been an influence on alternative and indie-rock bands.

Most notably, the rap rock genre became popular in the late 1990s, with bands like Rage Against the Machine, KoRn, Sublime, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and, most recently, Hollywood Undead gaining worldwide popularity by furthering Run – D. M. C.

Steve Huey in Allmusic describes the band as " one of the most unusual cult bands of the 1990s ... driven by frontman Mike Doughty's stream-of-consciousness poetry, Soul Coughing's sound was a willfully idiosyncratic mix of improvisational jazz grooves, oddball samples, hip-hop, electronics, and noisy experimentalism ( described by Doughty as ' deep slacker jazz ').

This marked a resurgence to a degree in the 1990s and 2000s with bands such as North Star, Muse, The Flower Kings, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Apocalypse, Karmakanic, Nexus, Pär Lindh Project, Arena, Glass Hammer and many others.

Many Romanian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Iris and Holograf, continue to be popular, particularly with the middle-aged, while since the beginning of the 1990s the hip hop / rap scene has developed a unique sound and indigenous style.

Kwela master Aaron " Big Voice Jack " Lerole continued to perform into the 1990s ; a few bands, such as The Positively Testcard of London, continue to record kwela music.

The origins of Britpop lie primarily in the indie scene of the early 1990s, and in particular around a group of bands involved in a vibrant social scene focused in the Camden Town area of London.

Post-Britpop bands like Travis, Stereophonics and Coldplay, influenced by Britpop acts, particularly Oasis, with more introspective lyrics, were some of the most successful rock acts of the late late 1990s and early 2000s.

In the 1980s and 1990s, several American bands began to combine polka with various rock styles ( sometimes referred to as " punk polka "), " alternative polka ", or " San Francisco-style ".

During the late 1990s, Omaha became nationally known as the birthplace of Saddle Creek Records, and the subsequent " Omaha Sound " was born from their bands ' collective style.

Although most grunge bands had disbanded or faded from view by the late 1990s, their influence continues to affect modern rock music.

By the 1990s, fewer bands were using synthesizers, and even former purely electronic acts such as Depeche Mode began using traditional acoustic instruments alongside the electronic instruments.

By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world.