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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.
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.
1991 music festivals (1 C, 2 P) L. 1991 in Latin music (5 P) M. Musical groups disestablished in 1991 (176 P) Musical groups established in 1991 (629 P)
The methodology for determining sales and airplay figures drastically changed with the chart dated November 30, 1991. Instead of surveying retail stores and radio stations, sales data was now gathered by Soundscan via a collection of the number of barcode scans a record received while airplay was to be compiled by Broadcast Data Systems , which ...
Starting in 1991, Billboard began using Nielsen Soundscan data for its album chart, which provided more precise and accurate sales figures. [3] The first date to use this methodology was the June 1, 1991 dated chart when the number one album was Out Of Time by R.E.M., which topped the chart with sales of 89,000. [4]
Pages in category "1991 songs" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,293 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.