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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]
("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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
List of number-one hits of 1991 (Italy) List of Hot R&B Singles number ones of 1991; List of number-one singles of 1991 (Canada) List of number-one singles of 1991 (Ireland) List of number-one singles of 1991 (Portugal) List of Oricon number-one albums of 1991; List of Top Country Albums number ones of 1991; List of UK top-ten singles in 1991
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 ...