List of Billboard Adult Top 40 number-one songs of the 1990s

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The Adult Top 40 chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and ranks "the most popular adult top 40 as based on radio airplay detections measured by Nielsen BDS."[1] The chart was first published in the March 16, 1996, issue of Billboard; however, historically, the chart's introduction was in October 1995, when it began as a test chart.[2]

The Adult Top 40 chart was formed following a split of the "Hot Adult Contemporary" chart due to the growing emergence of Adult Top 40 radio stations in the 1990s. These stations played a wider variety of artists and saw a faster turnover of songs compared to traditional adult contemporary radio. Songs by modern rock, dance, and R&B artists were mixed in with acts more closely associated with adult contemporary. According to Billboard, splitting the chart "better reflect[s] the music being played on adult contemporary and adult/top 40 stations."[2]

Chart history

– Year-end number-one single
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1995
October 7 "Kiss from a Rose" Seal 6 [3]
November 18 "As I Lay Me Down" Sophie B. Hawkins 3 [4]
December 9 "Roll to Me" Del Amitri 1 [5]
December 16 "As I Lay Me Down" Sophie B. Hawkins 4 [4]
1996
January 13 "One Sweet Day" Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men 10 [6]
March 23 "Time" Hootie & the Blowfish 2 [7]
April 6 "Because You Loved Me" Celine Dion 12 [8]
June 29 "Give Me One Reason" [9] Tracy Chapman 8 [10]
August 24 "Change the World" Eric Clapton 6 [11]
October 5 "I Love You Always Forever" Donna Lewis 1 [12]
October 12 "Change the World" Eric Clapton 1 [11]
October 19 "I Love You Always Forever" Donna Lewis 7 [12]
December 7 "Head Over Feet" Alanis Morissette 3 [13]
December 28 "Don't Speak" No Doubt 15 [14]
1997
April 12 "You Were Meant for Me" Jewel 6 [15]
May 24 "One Headlight" The Wallflowers 5 [16]
June 28 "Sunny Came Home" Shawn Colvin 7 [17]
August 16 "All for You" Sister Hazel 7 [18]
October 4 "Foolish Games" Jewel 5 [19]
November 8 "I Don't Want to Wait" Paula Cole 6 [20]
December 20 "Tubthumping" Chumbawamba 5 [21]
1998
January 24 "Walkin' on the Sun" Smash Mouth 3 [22]
February 14 "3 a.m." Matchbox Twenty 10 [23]
April 25 "Torn" [24] Natalie Imbruglia 14 [25]
August 1 "Iris" Goo Goo Dolls 17 [26]
November 28 "Thank U" Alanis Morissette 2 [27]
December 12 "Lullaby" Shawn Mullins 8 [28]
1999
February 6 "Angel" Sarah McLachlan 7 [29]
March 27 "Slide" [30] Goo Goo Dolls 2 [31]
April 10 "Every Morning" Sugar Ray 10 [32]
June 19 "Livin' La Vida Loca" Ricky Martin 6 [33]
July 31 "All Star" Smash Mouth 8 [34]
September 25 "She's So High" Tal Bachman 1 [35]
October 2 "All Star" Smash Mouth 1 [34]
October 9 "She's So High" Tal Bachman 2 [35]
October 23 "Smooth" Santana featuring Rob Thomas 25[A] [36]
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  • A ^ "Smooth" spent the last 10 weeks of 1999 and the first 15 weeks of 2000 at number one

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