Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"

The most-played song from 1998 came from an Alternative-Rock band with a goofy name. The Goo Goo Dolls released "Iris" for the City of Angels Soundtrack, but later included it in their Dizzy Up the Girl album. The song found homes on Alternative, Rock, Top 40, and Adult Contemporary radio stations which propelled it to the top spot on all of those formats. While not a well-received movie, the City of Angels Soundtrack also featured radio hits from Alanis Morissette and Sarah McLachlan.

Sarah McLachlan - "Angel"

Most Adult Contemporary radio stations shuffle through 300-400 songs on any given day -- lending an answer to the age-old question from listeners: "Why do you guys always play the same songs?".  Radio stations develop their music library by testing the hooks from hundreds of songs in focus groups (known as auditorium testing).  While not a perfect method, auditorium testing is standard in the industry.  One of the major problems with it, however, is that certain songs may test well, yet you don't want to hear them day after day on the radio.  One such example is the death march known as "Angel" from Sarah McLachlan.  While the song proved to be a massive hit in 1999 thanks to its inclusion on The City of Angels Soundtrack, there's certainly a time and place to hear a painfully slow ballad about a keyboardist who overdosed on heroin...and that time and place is not every day at work.

Alanis Morisette - "Uninvited"

With fans clamoring for something new from Alanis Morisette following the success of 1995's Jagged Little Pill, fans received something new in 1998.  "Uninvited" was Alanis' contribution to The City of Angels Soundtrack.  With the song's angst, it picked up where Jagged Little Pill left off and stoked the flames for Alanis' sophomore album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, (that dropped later in 1998).  While critics praised the album, it disappointed commercially.  The album produced just two moderate hits as compared to five from Jagged Little Pill.