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Then the Food Network went platinum. It started with Emeril Lagasse, who turned into a Cajun cartoon on his popular, superanimated Emeril Live, but the trend solidified with shows like the campy and overexposed Japanese game show Iron Chef, which proved you can never underestimate the American appetite for laughing at those funny Asians...
...stunner was Jill Scott. Dance music did well by compilations, and even managed a few good albums (Groove Armada's Vertigo, David Holmes' Bow Down to the Exit Sign) in what is generally a singles-driven culture. As for pop-well, some records were set by various assortments of platinum-bleached boy and girl wonders. But Aimee Mann's work on the Magnolia soundtrack was impressive, and despite the fun I poked at her, I'll say that Madonna's Music is really an infectious album...
...audience to their feet and kept them there. Scallions, who came onto stage in cowboy hat and blue feathered jacket, had enough of an element of musical madness to keep the audience more than interested as the band played cuts from their new release, Something Like Human, and their platinum 1998 debut Sunburn. Guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell's enthusiasm for his music was particularly evident as he provoked the crowd into standing up and singing along with such well-known songs as "Bittersweet," off Sunburn. When the band played "Shimmer," their modern-rock staple, band members left much of the singing...
...PUFF DADDY's 1999 oeuvre went platinum within four weeks and hung on to Top 40 status for two more months...
...TANG CLAN's multi-platinum 1997 venture stayed on Billboard's radar for 41 weeks...