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The single entered the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 at number 33, in the issue dated March 24, 1990. "Nothing Compares 2 U" rose steadily over the next four weeks – no doubt bolstered by the increasing exposure of the song's video on MTV – before reaching number one in the issue dated April 21.
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Jun 2, 2021 · It’s a little embarrassing, if I’m honest, how revolutionary the music video for Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” felt back in 1991 when MTV put it in Ultra-Mega-Heavy rotation.
- Rob Harvilla
Jul 27, 2023 · Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" was both a timeless pop classic and her only real Hot 100 hit. Forever No. 1 analyzes why.
In January 1990, "Nothing Compares 2 U" was released as a single, with the I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got album following in March. In April, the song went to #1 in America and many other countries, thrusting 23-year-old Sinéad into the spotlight.
Jul 26, 2023 · Six years before Sinead O'Connor turned "Nothing Compares 2 U" into a monster hit that catapulted the singer onto the world stage, Prince was spending the summer of 1984 working at his studio and was missing his housekeeper, Sandy Scipioni, who had left for a family emergency, according to The Guardian. Scipioni was instrumental in keeping the ...
- Andrew Amelinckx
Jul 27, 2023 · By Tom Eames. It was one of the biggest ballads of the 1990s, helped by an iconic music video and a powerful vocal performance. Sinead O'Connor 's version of a Prince song topped the charts around the world and remains of the greatest power ballads, but what inspired it and how did Sinead come to record it?
Jul 29, 2023 · “Nothing Compares 2 U” became a No. 1 hit in 17 countries, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four straight weeks and helped win O’Connor a Grammy (which she later refused to accept).
