Number 1 Songs in 1989 — UK and US Charts
UK #1
"Ride on Time"
Black Box
An Italian house music track that became the sound of the summer and the UK's best-selling single of 1989. It spent six weeks at number one and epitomised the acid house era.
US #1
"Look Away"
Chicago
The veteran rock band scored their first and only US number one with this power ballad from their '19' album. Chicago had successfully reinvented themselves as a soft rock act.
Biggest Films of 1989 — Box Office Hits
Batman
Box Office: $411 million
Tim Burton's dark, Gothic take on the Caped Crusader starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson was a cultural event. 'Batmania' swept the globe, and the film proved that comic book movies could be serious and commercially massive.
Fashion and Style of 1989
Fashion, clothing and visual culture from the era
Architecture and Buildings of 1989
Buildings completed and structures opened in 1989