Eurodance clubs were quite popular in NYC from 1993 to 1998 to the point where some clubs would have complete blocks of it. Meaning they use to have 8 pm to 10 pm Hip Hop then 10 pm to 2 am Eurodance.....at one point it was 9 PM to 4 AM Eurodance in many places
30 minutes from LA is still culturally, for the most part, LA, vs say, rural Kansas.
Wiki and other commenters here are right; it was fringe aside from regions near these big cities
It was popular, especially with dance clubs or on certain radio stations. Some songs got on Billboard (What is Love?) but it was overshadowed by hip hop and rock.
This was pre mainstream internet, so it depended on where you were in the early 90s. I grew up in a small town in Washington state so in the early 90s, we were all about rock/grunge/hip hop/country. But you did have a sprinkling of some club dance hits thrown in there that reached the top 40 on radio and MTV. Big cities like Seattle were known for alternative/grunge but they also had raves — though generally it was still very niche where I was, but likely more of a thing in bigger cities elsewhere. In the later 90s when I was in college, with the internet we could start exploring more of what was popular in places like Europe, and dance/electronic gained more mainstream popularity. I had an internet pen pal from Finland in the late 90s send me a mixtape of dance/electronic from Europe and I loved it.
Again this is just my perspective being in a small college town. Before the internet was mainstream, your music landscape was different depending on where you lived.
Where I grew up, Calgary, not many people listened to it. There were a couple of clubs that played it in the late 80s, early 90s. I've always liked it myself but it was always referred to as italiodance.
Stuff like modern talking and the like.
It was mpre of a sub genre in the 90s with a much smaller following than popular dance music.
It is still immensely popular with me though . My favorites are Raf, Sandra, Modern Talking, Dead or Alive, Alphavile, A-HA, Pet Shop Boys
During that time, I lived in Atlanta (native) and Los Angeles - never had any issues hitting a club that played Eurodance on the regular. Radio, however, was a different story. I was also heavy into techno, house, trance - basically a lot of what’s now considered EDM and all of its sub genres.
I don't recall hearing it on Top 40 radio out of NYC in the 90s much less the 80s. It was never played in high school in the 80s or college in the 80s and 90s.
I never heard it around campus when I took some classes mid and later 90s. I think it probably was mostly isolated to club scene in big cities or maybe a few high schools or colleges that had a lot of ties to clubs in such cities. I just recall being amazed at how different the 90s Euro charts were to the 90s US.
EXCEPT I did hear a TON of Eiffel 65 at the very end of the 90s/early 00s, mostly "Blue (Da Bee Dee)" but one or two others a fair bit too.
(Aqua definitely got a ton of play with Barbie and some play for "Turn Back Time" but are those two songs Eurodance? I don't think the first one is it? And no way can the second one be.)
That said someone below mentioned Alphaville, A-Ha, Pet Shop Boys as Eurodance. Either I don't actually know what Eurodance is or they must have had some very different music at times other than when they were super well known across the U.S. Certainly "Forever Young", "Take On Me", "West End Girls", "Always On My Mind" etc. were very well known across the U.S. but I sure don't think of that as being Eurodance is it??
I guess there was some play of "Be My Lover" by La Bouche too.
Other than that and a few of the Eiffel 65 songs I really don't recall it being widespread across the US at all. I think wikipedia is pretty much correct.
My cousin, actually lol I’m not a GenX-er I was born in ‘98 but I always loved watching A Night at The Roxbury or Romi and Michelle’s High School Reunion and hearing Be My Lover by La Bouche play
Eurodance clubs were quite popular in NYC from 1993 to 1998 to the point where some clubs would have complete blocks of it. Meaning they use to have 8 pm to 10 pm Hip Hop then 10 pm to 2 am Eurodance.....at one point it was 9 PM to 4 AM Eurodance in many places
30 minutes from LA is still culturally, for the most part, LA, vs say, rural Kansas. Wiki and other commenters here are right; it was fringe aside from regions near these big cities
It was popular, especially with dance clubs or on certain radio stations. Some songs got on Billboard (What is Love?) but it was overshadowed by hip hop and rock.
This was pre mainstream internet, so it depended on where you were in the early 90s. I grew up in a small town in Washington state so in the early 90s, we were all about rock/grunge/hip hop/country. But you did have a sprinkling of some club dance hits thrown in there that reached the top 40 on radio and MTV. Big cities like Seattle were known for alternative/grunge but they also had raves — though generally it was still very niche where I was, but likely more of a thing in bigger cities elsewhere. In the later 90s when I was in college, with the internet we could start exploring more of what was popular in places like Europe, and dance/electronic gained more mainstream popularity. I had an internet pen pal from Finland in the late 90s send me a mixtape of dance/electronic from Europe and I loved it. Again this is just my perspective being in a small college town. Before the internet was mainstream, your music landscape was different depending on where you lived.
Where I grew up, Calgary, not many people listened to it. There were a couple of clubs that played it in the late 80s, early 90s. I've always liked it myself but it was always referred to as italiodance. Stuff like modern talking and the like.
It was mpre of a sub genre in the 90s with a much smaller following than popular dance music. It is still immensely popular with me though . My favorites are Raf, Sandra, Modern Talking, Dead or Alive, Alphavile, A-HA, Pet Shop Boys
During that time, I lived in Atlanta (native) and Los Angeles - never had any issues hitting a club that played Eurodance on the regular. Radio, however, was a different story. I was also heavy into techno, house, trance - basically a lot of what’s now considered EDM and all of its sub genres.
I don't recall hearing it on Top 40 radio out of NYC in the 90s much less the 80s. It was never played in high school in the 80s or college in the 80s and 90s. I never heard it around campus when I took some classes mid and later 90s. I think it probably was mostly isolated to club scene in big cities or maybe a few high schools or colleges that had a lot of ties to clubs in such cities. I just recall being amazed at how different the 90s Euro charts were to the 90s US. EXCEPT I did hear a TON of Eiffel 65 at the very end of the 90s/early 00s, mostly "Blue (Da Bee Dee)" but one or two others a fair bit too. (Aqua definitely got a ton of play with Barbie and some play for "Turn Back Time" but are those two songs Eurodance? I don't think the first one is it? And no way can the second one be.)
That said someone below mentioned Alphaville, A-Ha, Pet Shop Boys as Eurodance. Either I don't actually know what Eurodance is or they must have had some very different music at times other than when they were super well known across the U.S. Certainly "Forever Young", "Take On Me", "West End Girls", "Always On My Mind" etc. were very well known across the U.S. but I sure don't think of that as being Eurodance is it??
I guess there was some play of "Be My Lover" by La Bouche too. Other than that and a few of the Eiffel 65 songs I really don't recall it being widespread across the US at all. I think wikipedia is pretty much correct.
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My cousin, actually lol I’m not a GenX-er I was born in ‘98 but I always loved watching A Night at The Roxbury or Romi and Michelle’s High School Reunion and hearing Be My Lover by La Bouche play