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freshest streaming service. Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine, about the hits from coast to coast.

I'm Chris Malanfi chart analyst pop critic and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series.

On today's show 28 is the song Number One series.

On today's show, 28 years ago this month in July of 1990, Billboards Hot 100 was led

by a number one single that would turn out to be quietly historic, the first of a new breed of Chartopper, even though it's not the most memorable hit ever.

The song was called She Ain't Worth It, and it was a one-off pairing between two young

men who had never met before the recording session and would never work together again.

A Hawaiian pop crooner named Glenn Maderos, and dropping in more than halfway through with

a rap bridge, former new edition number, and new Jack

Swing Mega Star, Bobby Brown. She ain't worth it. She's trying to make me late for another day.

Because I try to make your mind for the lap time.

So take this in as a diss of a good-bye.

She ain't worth it even though she's on the tip.

She better get a grip and it in a grip quick grip. She ain't worth it holds two distinctions in Hot 100 history. For one thing,

it's the first chart topping, sing and rap two-act pairing in Billboard history.

And second, with a couple of caveats, it is the formal debut of the word featuring on a Hot 100 number one hit.

The song credit read Glenn Maderos featuring Bobby Brown.

It is difficult to overstate how popular that word has become on the charts

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