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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]
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.
During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6) Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2) Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (ISBN 0-89820-137-3)
When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.