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    Default Last big pop hit based instrumentally around acoustic guitar?

    Acoustic guitar played a prominent role in popular music for decades, especially during the 1960s and 1970s when performers such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Bread, John Denver, the Eagles, Dan Fogelberg, and so many others featured acoustic guitar as the primary instruments in many of their hit songs. Even as "recently" as the late 1980s/early 1990s, rock acts such as Guns 'n Roses, Poison, and Extreme had hit recordings based around acoustic guitar. The last one I can remember, however, is Eric Clapton's 1993 hit "Tears In Heaven." Have there been more recent acoustic guitar-based pop songs that made it big in terms of sales, airplay, and general notoriety?

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    Did you stop listening to the radio in 1993?

    The Cranberries, Mazzy Star, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Radiohead and a thousand other bands were putting out acoustic hits in the 90s.

    As for recent stuff that isn’t country or folk, this is all that comes to mind. Probably not what you’re looking for.


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    Possibly the biggest hit of 1996:



    Edit: Or ever.

    When Billboard celebrated their 40 years charting from 1958 to 1998, the song was declared as the most successful song by a solo artist in the Billboard Hot 100 history.
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    Most anything John Mayer has done is acoustic.

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