List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1991

This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 1991. The longest running number-one single of 1991 is "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams, which attained seven weeks at number-one. ("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.)

Bryan Adams (pictured) earned his second Hot 100 number-one single with "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", which stayed at the top position for seven straight weeks.

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 Bunch, Loleatta Holloway, Karyn White, The New Power Generation, and P.M. Dawn. Mariah Carey and Paula Abdul were the only acts to hit number one more than once, with Mariah Carey having the most with three and Paula Abdul having two.

The November 30 chart ("Set Adrift on Memory Bliss") was the first Hot 100 to be compiled with Soundscan data.

Chart history

Key

†	Indicates best-performing single of 1991

An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts. This was the final year that there was no Hot 100 during this unpublished week. While the double issues continued beyond 1991, the charts themselves would still be compiled, available through their electronic and online services.

No.	Issue date	Song	Artist(s)	Ref.
736	January 5	"Justify My Love"	Madonna	[1][2]
	January 12			[3][4]
737	January 19	"Love Will Never Do (Without You)"	Janet Jackson	[5][6]
738	January 26	"The First Time"	Surface	[7][8]
	February 2			[9][10]
739	February 9	"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"	C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams	[11][12]
	February 16			[13][14]
740	February 23	"All the Man That I Need"	Whitney Houston	[15][16]
	March 2			[17][18]
741	March 9	"Someday"	Mariah Carey	[19][20]
	March 16			[21][22]
742	March 23	"One More Try"	Timmy T	[23][24]
743	March 30	"Coming Out of the Dark"	Gloria Estefan	[25][26]
	April 6			[27][28]
744	April 13	"I've Been Thinking About You"	Londonbeat	[29][30]
745	April 20	"You're in Love"	Wilson Phillips	[31][32]
746	April 27	"Baby Baby"	Amy Grant	[33]
	May 4			[34]
747	May 11	"Joyride"	Roxette	[35]
748	May 18	"I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)"	Hi-Five	[36]
749	May 25	"I Don't Wanna Cry"	Mariah Carey	[37]
	June 1			[38]
750	June 8	"More Than Words"	Extreme	[39]
751	June 15	"Rush Rush"	Paula Abdul	[40]
	June 22			[41]
	June 29			[42]
	July 6			[43]
	July 13			[44]
752	July 20	"Unbelievable"	EMF	[45]
753	July 27	"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"†	Bryan Adams	[46]
	August 3			[47]
	August 10			[48]
	August 17			[49]
	August 24			[50]
	August 31			[51]
	September 7			[52]
754	September 14	"The Promise of a New Day"	Paula Abdul	[53]
755	September 21	"I Adore Mi Amor"	Color Me Badd	[54]
	September 28			[55]
756	October 5	"Good Vibrations"	Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway	[56]
757	October 12	"Emotions"	Mariah Carey	[57]
	October 19			[58]
	October 26			[59]
758	November 2	"Romantic"	Karyn White	[60]
759	November 9	"Cream"	Prince and the New Power Generation	[61]
	November 16			[62]
760	November 23	"When a Man Loves a Woman"	Michael Bolton	[63]
The Billboard Hot 100 now derives its sales data from Nielsen SoundScan and radio airplay from BDS for its chart positions.
761	November 30	"Set Adrift on Memory Bliss"	P.M. Dawn	[64]
762	December 7	"Black or White"	Michael Jackson	[65]
	December 14			[66]
	December 21			[67]
	December 28*			[68]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Mariah Carey	7
	Bryan Adams
3	Paula Abdul	6
4	Michael Jackson	4
5	Madonna	2
	Surface
	C+C Music Factory
	Freedom Williams
	Whitney Houston
	Gloria Estefan
	Amy Grant
	Color Me Badd
	Prince and the New Power Generation
14	Janet Jackson	1
	Timmy T
	Londonbeat
	Wilson Phillips
	Roxette
	Hi-Five
	Extreme
	EMF
	Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
	Loleatta Holloway
	Karyn White
	Michael Bolton
	P.M. Dawn

See also

• 1991 in music
• List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1991
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1990s