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Boyz II Men (pictured) had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "End of the Road", the number one hit song of the year. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1992. [1] No song that appeared in the 1991 year-end had managed to appear in the 1992 year-end.
Boyz II Men (pictured) earned their first Hot 100 number-one single with "End of the Road", which stayed at the top position for thirteen straight weeks. This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 1992. The longest running number-one single of 1992 is "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston, which stayed at the top of the chart for 14 weeks. "I Will Always Love ...
A total of 77 songs reached the top ten, a huge decline from 111 songs from the previous year, with 68 songs that peaked that year while the remaining nine peaked in 1991 or 1993. 13 songs hit number one that year, while 10 songs peaked at number two.
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.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
Whitney Houston had the best-selling single of 1992, "I Will Always Love You", which spent ten weeks at number-one and a total of fifteen weeks in the top 10. Erasure achieved three top 10 singles this year, including their only UK number-one, the "Abba-esque (EP)", which topped the chart for five weeks.
In addition to Wynonna, four other artists reached number one for the first time in 1992. Collin Raye was the first, moving into the top spot on the first chart of the year with "Love, Me". [3] [4] Raye's song was replaced at number one three weeks later by Tracy Lawrence's "Sticks and Stones", another first-time chart-topper. [5]
To formulate chart rankings, Billboard assembled a panel of selected record stores to provide reports of each week's top-selling singles. [ 6 ] 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 ]