The number 1 rock song this week in 1994 belongs to Soundgarden’s hit single, “Black Hole Sun.” The song was released in 1994 as the third single from the album Superunknown and is arguably the band’s most popular song. In a 2014 interview with UnCut Magazine, Cornell said of the song:
“I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, a 35-40 minute drive from Seattle. It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I heard ‘blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah’. I thought that would make an amazing song title, but what would it sound like? It all came together, pretty much the whole arrangement including the guitar solo that’s played beneath the riff. I spent a lot of time spinning those melodies in my head so I wouldn’t forget them. I got home and whistled it into a Dictaphone. The next day I brought it into the real world, assigning a couple of key changes in the verse to make the melodies more interesting. Then I wrote the lyrics and that was similar, a stream of consciousness based on the feeling I got from the chorus and title.”
To finish out the top 10 songs this week in 1994:
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