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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.
Sinéad O'Connor (pictured) earned her first Hot 100 number-one single with "Nothing Compares 2 U", which stayed at the top position for four weeks. This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 1990. The three longest running number-one singles of 1990 are "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor, "Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey, and " Because I Love You (The Postman ...
Song Artist(s) Reference January 5 "Another Day in Paradise" [a] Phil Collins: January 12 "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" Michael Bolton: January 19 January 26 "Downtown Train" Rod Stewart: February 2 "Opposites Attract" Paula Abdul and The Wild Pair: February 9 February 16 February 23 "Escapade" Janet Jackson: March 2 March 9 March 16 ...
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 mid-1990s also witnessed a drastic difference between what reached the top of the Mainstream Top 40 chart and the Hot 100, when songs started being promoted to radio and receiving significant airplay without the release of a commercially available single, a requirement for a song to reach the Hot 100.
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1990.. A total of 116 singles reached the top 10 in 1990, a slight decrease from 124 in the previous year, with 108 songs reaching their peaks in the year while the remaining eight either peaked in 1989 or 1991. 26 singles hit number one in 1990, while 14 singles reached number two that year.
The 1990s also saw the emergence of pop/rock singer Natalie Imbruglia mainly thanks to her biggest hit - the cover of the song Torn which became one of the most popular pop songs of the decade. Other prominent pop singers that emerged during the 1990s included Peter Andre , pop band Human Nature , Tina Arena and R&B/hip-hop artists CDB and Deni ...
[2] One of the first noticeable effects of the change in methodology was that there tended to be less turnover of the top songs. Before the switch, no song had spent at least ten weeks at number one on the Hot 100 Airplay chart, but from December 1990 until the end of the decade, 17 songs had a minimum ten-week run at the top of the chart.