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Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s. Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which at the time was a record. [4] [5] Lisa Loeb became the first artist to score a #1 hit before signing to any record label, with "Stay (I Missed You)".
The progressive rock of Rush's "Show Don't Tell", the final song to top the chart in the 1980s, had evolved into the post-grunge sound of Creed's "Higher" by the end of the 1990s. Despite the evolution, Van Halen still managed to top the chart more than any other artist during the 1990s with eight number-one songs.
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 ...
90 "This One's for the Children" New Kids on the Block: 91 "What It Takes" Aerosmith: 92 "Forever" Kiss: 93 "Jerk Out" The Time: 94 "Just a Friend" Biz Markie: 95 "Whole Wide World" A'Me Lorain: 96 "Without You" Mötley Crüe: 97 "Swing the Mood" Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers: 98 "Thieves in the Temple" Prince: 99 "Mentirosa" Mellow Man Ace ...
Artists who hit number one prior to the start of the Hot 100 are included here. A song that topped multiple pre-Hot 100 charts is counted only once towards the artist's total. The ° symbol indicates that all or part of an artist's total includes number-ones occurring on any of the pre-Hot 100 chart(s) listed above (January 1, 1955 through July ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1991. [1] ... 90 "Disappear"
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.
Mainstream Top 40 is compiled from airplay on radio stations which play a wide variety of music, not just "pure pop", which Billboard defines as "melodic, often synth-driven, uptempo fare". [2] During the 1990s, mainstream top 40 went from R&B dominating the airwaves (and thus the charts) in the early 1990s to rock and alternative music ...