ONTD Original: Best Ladies R&B Groups of the 90s

Musical groups (both women and men) have been a intricate part in music especially in the R&B genre. With groups like The Temptations, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Martha and The Vandellas, The Spinners, The Pointer Sisters, The Gap Band, New Edition and many others.

For this list (not any order even though I do have my personal list) I compiled the best ladies R&B groups (subsequent best guy R&B groups list I'll be making later on) that emerged in the 1990s. These groups were at the top of the music game not only in the R&B genre but were some of the best artists in their prime. Some of these groups had some....internal issues so I will keep it to their music only, I let you guys do all of that in the comments.

TLC


Origin: Atlanta, Georgia
Members: Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes & Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas
Top Selling Album: CrazySexyCool (1994)
Hit Songs: Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg, Baby-Baby-Baby**, What About Your Friends, Hat 2 Da Back, Get it Up, Creep*, Waterfalls*, Red Light Special, Diggin' On You, Kick Your Game, No Scrubs*, UnPretty*, Silly Ho, Dear Lie, I'm Good at Being Bad&Girl Talk


More info about TLC

FYI:
- sold over 65 million albums
- best-selling American girl group and second worldwide to the English group Spice Girls
-their album CrazySexyCool (1994) still remains the only album by a female group to receive a diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
- the first R&B group in history to receive million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for FanMail (1999)


Most Underrated song



SWV aka Sisters With Voices


Origin: New York City, New York
Members: Cheryl "Coko" Gamble, Tamara "Taj" Johnson & Leanne "Lelee" Lyons
Top Selling Album: It's About Time (1992)
Hit Songs: I'm So Into You, Right Here/Human Nature**, Weak*, Downtown, You're Always on My Mind, Anything, You're the One**, Use Your Heart, Rain, Can We and Someone

More info about SWV

- Sold over 25 million albums
- "Right Here/Human Nature" peaked at No. 1 on R&B and No. 2 on the Hot 100 and it stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard R&B charts for 7 weeks, making it one of the longest-running singles of 1993


Most Underrated Song




En Vogue


Origin: Oakland, California
Members: Terry Ellis, Dawn Robinson, Cindy Herron & Maxine Jones
Top Selling Album: Funky Divas (1992)
Hit Songs: Hold On**, Don't Go, Lies**, You Don't Have to Worry**, My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)**, Giving Him Something Can Feel**, Free Your Mind, Give it Up, Turn it Loose, Runaway Love, Don't Let Go (Love)** and Whatever

More info about En Vogue

- sold more than 20 million records worldwide
- Billboard magazine ranked the band as the 19th most successful recording artist of the 1990s and the ninth most-successful girl group of all-time
the group's singles ranks in Billboard's most successful girl group songs of all-time list, "Don't Let Go (Love)" (#12) and "Hold On" (#23)


Most Underrated Song




Destiny's Child


Origin: Houston, Texas
Members: Present (Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams) and Past (LaTavia Roberson, LeToya Luckett and Farrah Franklin)
Top Selling Album: The Writing's on the Wall (1999)
Hit Songs: No, No, No, With Me, Get on the Bus, Bills, Bills, Bills*, Bug a Boo, Say My Name*, Jumpin' Jumpin', Independent Women Pt.1*, Survivor, Bootylicious*, Emotion, Nasty Girl, Lose My Breath, Soldier, Cater 2 U and Girl

More info about Destiny's Child

- sold more than sixty million records worldwide
- Billboard magazine ranks the group as one of the greatest musical trios of all time, the ninth most successful artist/band of the 2000s, placed the group 68th in its All-Time Hot 100 Artists list in 2008 and the magazine ranked them as the 90th most successful dance club artist of all-time


Most Underrated Song




* - #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
** - #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart







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