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Bryan Adams (pictured) had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" at number one and "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" at number 59. Mariah Carey (pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1991. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1991. [1]
("Black or White" by Michael Jackson would also spend a total of seven weeks at #1, but only four of those weeks were in the 1991 calendar year.) That year, 14 acts earn their first number one song, such as Surface , C+C Music Factory , Freedom Williams , Timmy T , Londonbeat , Hi-Five , Extreme , EMF , Color Me Badd , Marky Mark and the Funky ...
A total of 111 singles reached the top ten in 1991, with 102 singles that peaked that year while the remaining nine peaked in 1990 or 1992. This was also the final year that the Billboard Hot 100 used the old methodology for determining sales and airplay figures from a survey of retailers and radio stations.
Although the year 1991 is the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough, heavy metal was still the dominant form of rock music for the year. [1] Therefore, Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", was not the most popular U.S. album of the year.
C+C Music Factory presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis "This Beat Is Hot" B.G., the Prince of Rap [69] [70] September 7 [71] [72] September 14 "The Whistle Song" Frankie Knuckles "Things That Make You Go Hmmm..." C+C Music Factory presents Freedom Williams and Zelma Davis [73] [74] September 21 "Makin' Happy" Crystal Waters "Makin' Happy"
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
Sibling duo BeBe & CeCe Winans had two number ones in 1991. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1991 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American-oriented genres ; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. In 1991, it was published under the ...
Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1991, 30 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles & Tracks, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from country music radio stations compiled by ...