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1999. 2000s →. Mariah Carey amassed the most number-one hits (14 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (60 weeks) during the 1990s. Carey is also the only artist to spend at least one week at the summit of the chart in each year of the decade. Boyz II Men remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart ...
The first number-one song on both of these charts was "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men. [ 1] 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 ...
[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.
Wilson Phillips (pictured) had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "Hold On" at number one and "Release Me" at number 19. Janet Jackson (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1990. Phil Collins (pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1990 ...
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 ...
Billboard. Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1997. Elton John ( pictured) topped the Year-End chart with his double-sided single, "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight", which was at the top of the Hot 100 for 14 weeks. Puff Daddy ( pictured) had the most songs on the Year-End list with five: two of them, "I'll Be ...
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 ...
2000s →. "Blues from a Gun" by The Jesus and Mary Chain was the first Modern Rock Tracks number-one hit of the 1990s. Nirvana attained four number-one songs on the chart during the decade, including the crossover hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit". R.E.M. 's "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" was the first number-one debut in the chart's history.