Billboard #1 Hits: #702: ‘Hangin’ Tough’- New Kids On The Block. September 9, 1989. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘Hangin’ Tough’- New Kids On The Block
- Record Company- Columbia
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Maurice Starr
- Time: 4:18
- B-side: ‘Didn’t I [Blow Your Mind]
- Album- Hangin’ Tough
- Grade: D
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #1 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Ireland.
Manufactured boy band- they were the top charting act on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989- which tells you about all you need to know about 1989.
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Between New Kids on the Block, Milli Vanilli & Paula Abdul, who had a combined 8 #1 songs, as well as bombs by Bon Jovi and Michael Damien, it was a pretty pathetic year for music.