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Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were ‘Hangin’ Tough’ at No. 1
New Kids on the Block's 'Hangin' Tough' topped the Billboard charts in 1989. Here's the chart rewind.
4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985 with “Cool It Now,” he followed with New Kids on the Block – brothers Jonathan and Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood. While their self-titled first LP didn’t hit the Billboard 200 upon its release, follow-up Hangin’ Tough filled the late-’80s boy band void, yielding five infectious Hot 100 top 10s, including the quintet’s first No. (On their summer 1989 tour, New Kids on the Block – and former Billboard publisher Tommy Page, then in his teen-idol days [he passed in 2017] – set out as the opening acts for Tiffany.
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