Readers of That Grape Juice know what avid music lovers we are – especially of hits past.
So, just as our retrospective features ‘From the Vault’ and ‘TGJ Replay’ allow us the chance to re-spin the gems and jams of yesterday of one artist, our newest feature Chart Rewind – a variation of our current Retro Rewind assay – accedes salutes to an entire era of music history.
This week we pucker up for Seal‘s 1995 megahit, ‘Kiss From A Rose’ (most famously from the ‘Batman Forever’ soundtrack). Written in the late 80s, the track was initially a source of embarrassment for the crooner who ultimately shelved it until the recording of his second eponymous album, 1994’s ‘Seal II.’ Eventually released in the United States in 1995, ‘Rose’ also landed on the ‘Batman’ soundtrack – a move that helped it blast to #1 Stateside (where it was found this week that year).
Going on to sell over 8 million copies, the tune dominated the next year’s Grammy ceremony by taking home ‘Record of the Year,’ ‘Song of the Year,’ and other honors.
Tuck in below to see who joined Seal in the top 25 on this week’s ‘Retro Rewind’:
Billboard Hot 100 This Week in 1995
Hot 100 This Week
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I’m OVER “Wlld THOUGHTS” ???
I Got 5 On It!!!
Oh man my dad used to jam to that!!!
Damn I miss the 90’s!!!
Amazing list as almost always with the 90s. But haven´t this guys made a Retro Rewind with this very same week with this Seal song and all already? Their lack of diversity and ideas is appalling to be honest.
I WAS 5 years old but I remember it like it was yesterday. Good music! LONG LIVE THE ’90s! A late friend of mine LOVED this song….RIP! How music has gone to the dogs. Those vocals, that bridge….this song will never die!
“There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
Love remained a drug that’s the high and not the pill.
But did you know, That when it snows, My eyes become large
And the light that you shine can be seen.
Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray.
Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah.
And now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom
On the gray.”
Classics in the top20 90s chart compared to the unforgettable 6 in 2017