In the 1990s, music had gone through the rap and house revolution, totally changing the landscape of music. While up to the 1980s, music seemed to get louder and louder, the 1990s music seemed to take a step back in rhythm, going from the aforementioned Rap revolution, to the slower, romantic lyrics of late '90s bands, while also witnessing a rise in alternative rock, and a couple of attempts at bringing back '80s style of pop. By the end of the decade electronic dance music (house, techno) was ubiquitous and the charts were full of manufactured corporate groups.

Among the groups who started or became famous during the 1990s (excluding artists who have continued their success from previous decades, or have started new bands in the 2000s):

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*.moe
*112
*13 Engines
*2 Unlimited
*3 Doors Down
*311
*4 Non Blondes
*5ive
*98 Degrees

A

*A New Found Glory
*A-Teens
*Ace of Base
*Aerosmith
*AFI
*Air
*Alice In Chains
*Alien Ant Farm
*Alisha's Attic
*All-4-One
*All Saints
*Allure
*Amon Amarth
*American Hi-Fi
*Amiel
*Angelfish
*Aphex Twin
*Aqua
*Aquabats
*Army of Lovers
*Arrested Development
*Atomic Kitten

B

*Backstreet Boys
*Barenaked Ladies
*Beastie Boys
*Ben Folds Five
*Better Than Ezra
*Big Audio Dynamite II
*Bikini Kill
*Biohazard
*Blackstreet
*Blind Melon
*blink-182
*Bloodhound Gang
*Blues Traveler
*Blur
*bôa
*Bon Jovi
*Bootsauce
*Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
*Boyz II Men
*Bran Van 3000
*Brother Cane
*The Breeders
*Bronco
*BT
*Burzum
*Bush
*The Butthole Surfers
*By Divine Right
*Bachelor Girl
*The Black Crowes
*BlackGirl
*Blessid Union of Souls
*Blue
*Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony
*Bowling For Soup
*Butterfingers
*Black Label Society
*Blaque

C

*C&C Music Factory
*Cake
*Candlebox
*The Cardigans
*The Cash Brothers
*Change of Heart
*The Chemical Brothers
*Cherry Poppin' Daddies
*Children of Bodom
*Citizen King
*CIV
*CKY
*Collective Soul
*Color Me Badd
*Cornershop
*The Corrs
*Counting Crows
*The Cranberries
*Cradle of Filth
*Crash Test Dummies
*Creed
*The Crystal Method
*Cub
*Chumbawamba
*Cursive
*Cypress Hill

D

*Daft Punk
*Damn Yankees
*Dave Matthews Band
*Days of the New
*Deee-Lite
*Def Leppard
*Deftones
*Delerium
*Deep Blue Something
*Destiny's Child
*Digital Underground
*Dishwalla
*Dixie Chicks
*DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
*The Donnas
*Down
*Dream Theater
*Dream Warriors
*Dru Hill
*DVDA

E

*Eagle-Eye Cherry
*Econoline Crush
*Elastica
*EMF
*Emperor
*En Vogue
*Eve 6
*Everclear
*Extreme

F

*Faith No More
*The Family Jewels
*Fatboy Slim
*Fastball
*Fear Factory
*Filter
*Finger Eleven
*Finntroll
*Firehouse
*Folk Implosion
*Foo Fighters
*For Real
*Fuel
*Fugazi
*The Fugees

G

*Garbage
*Get Up Kids
*Gin Blossoms
*Ginuwine
*Girls Against Boys
*Godsmack
*Goo Goo Dolls
*God Lives Underwater
*Matthew Good Band
*Grandaddy
*Gravity Kills
*Great Big Sea
*Green Day
*Gruntruck
*Guided By Voices
*Guns N' Roses

H

*H20
*Hanson
*Heimlich Maneuver
*hHead
*HIM
*Hole
*The Honeyz
*Hootie and the Blowfish
*House of Pain

I

*I Mother Earth
*Incubus
*Infidels
*Intermix
*Insane Clown Posse
*INXS

J

*Jagged Edge
*James
*Jamiroquai
*Jane's Addiction
*Jesus Jones
*The Jesus Lizard
*Jimmy Eat World
*Jodeci
*Jurassic 5

K

*K-Ci and JoJo
*The KLF
*Kidneythieves
*King Cobb Steelie
*Kittens
*Kittie
*KoЯn
*Kriss Kross
*K's Choice

L

*L7
*Lacuna Coil
*La Ley
*The Lemonheads
*Less Than Jake
*Letters To Cleo
*Limp Bizkit
*Lit
*Līve
*Local H
*Londonbeat
*Long Beach Dub Allstars
*Los Enanitos Verdes
*The Lowest of the Low
*Luscious Jackson

M

*Madball
*Mana
*Manic Street Preachers
*Marcy Playground
*Marilyn Manson
*Marcy Playground
*Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
*Massive Attack
*matchbox twenty
*Mayhem
*Mazzy Star
*Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
*Meat Puppets
*Megadeth
*Melvins
*Metallica
*The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
*The Misfits
*Modern Talking
*Mötley Crüe
*Mr. Big
*Mr. Bungle
*Mudhoney
*Muse
*Mushroomhead
*Music Instructor
*MxPx

N

*Nada Surf
*Nailbomb
*Nelson
*New Found Glory
*New Kids On The Block
*The New Pornographers
*New Radicals
*Nightwish
*Nine Inch Nails
*Nirvana
*No Doubt
*No Use For A Name
*NOFX
**NSYNC

O

*Oakenfold, Paul
*Oasis
*Ocean Colour Scene
*The Offspring
*Opeth
*The Orb
*Orbital
*Orgy
*Otep
*Our Lady Peace
*OutKast
*Overcast
*O*Town

P

*Portishead
*Pantera
*Papa Roach
*Pavement
*Pearl Jam
*Pennywise
*Phair, Liz
*Phantom Planet
*Phish
*P.M. Dawn
*Polaris
*Porno For Pyros
*Poison
*Powerman 5000
*Presidents of the United States of America
*Primal Scream
*Primus
*The Prodigy
*Public Enemy
*Puff Daddy & the Family
*Pulp

Q

*Queens of the Stone Age

R

*Radiohead
*Rage Against the Machine
*Rammstein
*Rancid
*Rasputina
*Red Hot Chili Peppers
*Reel Big Fish
*R.E.M.
*The Rembrandts
*Republica
*Rhapsody
*Rheostatics
*Right Said Fred
*The Rollins Band
*Rose Chronicles
*Roxette
*The Ruff Ryders

S

*Savage Garden
*Scorpions
*Seal
*Section 8
*Semisonic
*Sepultura
*Seven Mary Three
*Seven Year Bitch
*She Moves
*Silverchair
*Sister Hazel
*Six Feet Under
*Sixpence None the Richer
*Skydiggers
*Slaughter
*Slipknot
*Sloan
*The Smashing Pumpkins
*Snap!
*Sneaker Pimps
*Social Distortion
*Soulfly
*Soul Asylum
*Soul Coughing
*Soundgarden
*Spacemen 3
*Spice Girls
*Spin Doctors
*Sponge
*Stabbing Westward
*Stereophonics
*Stone Roses
*Stone Temple Pilots
*Stratovarius
*String Cheese Incident
*Sublime
*Sugar Ray
*Sunny Day Real Estate
*Superdrag
*SWV
*System of a Down

T

*Tad
*Take That
*Temple of the Dog
*The Pretenders
*Third Eye Blind
*TLC
*Toadies
*The Tomorrowpeople
*Tonic
*Tool
*The Tragically Hip
*A Tribe Called Quest
*Toad the Wet Sprocket

U

*UB40
*Ugly Kid Joe

V

*Van Halen
*The Vandals
*Vertical Horizon
*The Verve
*The Verve Pipe
*Veruca Salt
*Violent Femmes

W

*The Wallflowers
*Warrant
*The Wedding Present
*Weezer
*Eric West
*Westlife
*White Zombie
*The White Stripes
*Wilco
*Wild Orchid
*Wilson Phillips
*Wu-Tang Clan
*Within Temptation

Z

*Rob Zombie

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Other Decades

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Although 90s music probably died somewhere between 1997 and 2002, it could be argued that the decade's sound is still alive and strong to this day (2005), as boy bands and alternative acts still sell very well, whereas by 1992 or so very little 80s-style music sold.