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Hip hop singles from any year which charted in the 1989 Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 [2] Song Artist Project Peak position "Wild Thing" Tone Lōc: Lōc-ed After Dark: 2 "Funky Cold Medina" Tone Lōc: Lōc-ed After Dark: 3 "Buffalo Stance" Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi: 3 "Bust A Move" Young MC: Stone Cold Rhymin' 7 "Pump Up the Jam" Technotronic
Between 1989 and 1999, 173 singles topped the Hot Rap Singles chart, with "Hot Boyz" by Missy Elliott featuring Nas, Eve and Q-Tip being the final number-one single of the 1990s. [7] The single's 18-week reign at the top spot extended into the next decade , and until 2019 it held the record for the most weeks at number one in the chart's ...
They tied with New Kids on the Block for the most songs on the chart. Three songs by Madonna (pictured) from her album Like a Prayer, including its title track, appeared on the chart. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1989. [1] [2]
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The #1 song of 1989, "Look Away" by Chicago, despite reaching #1 in late 1988, never reached #1 in 1989. An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1989.. A total 124 songs reached the top ten in 1989, only 117 of them peaked in 1989 (the other seven peaked in either 1988 or 1990). 33 songs peaked at number one that year, tying the previous year, 1988 with the second-most number-one songs of the year, while 14 singles reached a peak of number two.
The song stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks in the top 40, winning the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance. In 2008, the song was ranked number 47 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop".
The song stayed 18 weeks on the recently created Billboard Hot Rap Singles and became one of the first songs to peak at No. 1 on that chart, staying there for two weeks in December 1989. Although MC Lyte had already reached #1 on Rap chart a few months earlier with the collaborative single " Self Destruction ", this was the first time that a ...