MMMBOP
“MMMBop” is a song written and performed by the American pop rock band Hanson and released as the lead single from their debut full length studio album, Middle of Nowhere, in 1997. The song was nominated for two Grammys at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards in February 1998 and is the band’s most successful single to date. “MMMBop” was phenomenally successful, especially for a debut single, reaching number one in 27 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Mexico. It was voted the best single of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll, while also topping critics’ polls from such media as Rolling Stone, Spin, and VH1, and was ranked as #20 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Songs of the 90s”. (More from Wikipedia)
In the mid-1990’s, Kim Fowley edited a video demo and went to 24 record labels trying without success to sign three young brothers who were in a band named Hanson. In 1997, Hanson got a major-label contract and had a worldwide hit, “MMMBop”; they also received three Grammy nominations that year.
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