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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]
Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2) Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (ISBN 0-89820-137-3) Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
Ten songs had runs at number one of ten weeks or longer during the 1990s, with the longest coming from "Touch, Peel and Stand" by Days of the New at 16 weeks. ("Higher" by Creed spent 17 weeks at the top of the chart but its last couple of weeks ran into the year 2000). By 1996, rock radio stations had become more song-driven rather than album ...
The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s.
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.
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.
List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1991; List of European number-one hits of 1991; List of number-one singles of 1991 (France) List of Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1991; List of Hot Country Singles & Tracks number ones of 1991; List of number-one albums of 1991 (Portugal) List of number-one hits of 1991 (Italy)
The modern rock radio format experienced a substantial growth in popularity during the decade, [5] with the success of Nirvana's 1991 song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" marking a "return of the crossover rock hit". [6] Speaking to Billboard in 1994, chart analyst Max Tolkoff remarked that in previous years, "people didn't care what was a hit on ...