# The 35 Best Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of the 1990s

> Movie ballads that camped at the top for months sit next to novelty smashes and rap breakthroughs that stayed a week. Every song here reached the top of the Hot 100 between 1990 and 1999.

*By YPB Team · Published November 13, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-35-best-billboard-hot-100-no-1-hits-of-the-1990s*

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1. **(Everything I Do) I Do It for You – Bryan Adams** — score 1000/1000
   The love theme from the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, No. 1 for seven weeks that summer.
2. **I'll Be Missing You – Puff Daddy & Faith Evans** — score 952/1000
   A 1997 tribute to The Notorious B.I.G., recorded with 112 over a sample of The Police's Every Breath You Take, No. 1 for 11 weeks.
3. **Smooth – Santana feat. Rob Thomas** — score 857/1000
   A single from Santana's 1999 album Supernatural that held No. 1 for 12 weeks across 1999 and 2000.
4. **I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston** — score 835/1000
   Whitney Houston's 1992 recording of the Dolly Parton song, from The Bodyguard soundtrack, spent 14 weeks at No. 1.
5. **Macarena – Los del Río** — score 800/1000
   The Bayside Boys Mix of the Spanish duo's song reached No. 1 in 1996 and stayed there for 14 weeks.
6. **Candle in the Wind 1997 – Elton John** — score 800/1000
   Elton John's rewritten tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, held No. 1 for 14 weeks across 1997 and 1998.
7. **No Diggity – Blackstreet feat. Dr. Dre** — score 734/1000
   The 1996 lead single from Blackstreet's Another Level, four weeks at No. 1.
8. **MMMBop – Hanson** — score 734/1000
   The Tulsa brothers' 1997 single from Middle of Nowhere, three weeks at No. 1.
9. **Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice** — score 734/1000
   Built on a sample of Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure, it became the first hip-hop single to top the Hot 100 in 1990.
10. **That's the Way Love Goes – Janet Jackson** — score 734/1000
   The lead single from the 1993 album janet., which held the top spot for eight weeks.
11. **...Baby One More Time – Britney Spears** — score 659/1000
   Britney Spears's debut single reached No. 1 in January 1999 and stayed for two weeks.
12. **Baby Got Back – Sir Mix-a-Lot** — score 659/1000
   A 1992 single from the album Mack Daddy that spent five weeks at No. 1 and later won a Grammy.
13. **My Heart Will Go On – Céline Dion** — score 659/1000
   The love theme from Titanic topped the Hot 100 for two weeks in 1998 and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
14. **Livin' la Vida Loca – Ricky Martin** — score 659/1000
   The lead English-language single from Ricky Martin's 1999 self-titled album, No. 1 for five weeks.
15. **Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinéad O'Connor** — score 659/1000
   Sinéad O'Connor's 1990 cover of a Prince composition, from I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, No. 1 for four weeks.
16. **Kiss from a Rose – Seal** — score 659/1000
   First released in 1994, the ballad reached No. 1 for one week in 1995 after appearing on the Batman Forever soundtrack.
17. **Fantasy – Mariah Carey** — score 571/1000
   Mariah Carey's 1995 lead single from Daydream, built on a sample of Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love", which debuted at No. 1 and held the top spot for eight weeks.
18. **I Don't Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith** — score 467/1000
   Written by Diane Warren for the 1998 film Armageddon, it was the band's only Hot 100 No. 1, lasting four weeks.
19. **Jump – Kris Kross** — score 467/1000
   The Atlanta teen duo's 1992 debut single from Totally Krossed Out, No. 1 for eight weeks.
20. **The Sign – Ace of Base** — score 467/1000
   The Swedish group's 1994 single topped the Hot 100 for six non-consecutive weeks and was Billboard's year-end No. 1 song.
21. **Doo Wop (That Thing) – Lauryn Hill** — score 467/1000
   The 1998 lead single from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill debuted at No. 1 and held it for two weeks.
22. **Black or White – Michael Jackson** — score 343/1000
   The lead single from Dangerous reached No. 1 in December 1991 and held it for seven weeks into 1992.
23. **Vogue – Madonna** — score 343/1000
   A 1990 house track from the album I'm Breathless that spent three weeks at No. 1.
24. **No Scrubs – TLC** — score 343/1000
   The lead single from TLC's 1999 album FanMail, four weeks at No. 1.
25. **Gangsta's Paradise – Coolio feat. L.V.** — score 343/1000
   Recorded for the 1995 film Dangerous Minds and built on Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise, it spent three weeks at No. 1.
26. **One Sweet Day – Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men** — score 343/1000
   A 1995 ballad from Mariah Carey's Daydream album that held No. 1 for 16 weeks across 1995 and 1996.
27. **Hypnotize – The Notorious B.I.G.** — score 343/1000
   A single from Life After Death released days before the rapper was killed in March 1997, it later spent three weeks at No. 1.
28. **Wannabe – Spice Girls** — score 343/1000
   The British group's debut single from Spice reached No. 1 in the US in 1997 and stayed four weeks.
29. **Genie in a Bottle – Christina Aguilera** — score 343/1000
   Christina Aguilera's 1999 debut single spent five weeks at No. 1.
30. **Waterfalls – TLC** — score 0/1000
   A 1995 single from CrazySexyCool that held No. 1 for seven weeks.
31. **The Boy Is Mine – Brandy & Monica** — score 0/1000
   A 1998 duet that spent 13 weeks at No. 1 and appeared on both singers' albums.
32. **Believe – Cher** — score 0/1000
   A 1998 dance-pop single known for its Auto-Tune vocal effect, four weeks at No. 1 in 1999.
33. **End of the Road – Boyz II Men** — score 0/1000
   A 1992 ballad from the Boomerang soundtrack that topped the Hot 100 for 13 weeks.
34. **Un-Break My Heart – Toni Braxton** — score 0/1000
   A ballad from the 1996 album Secrets that spent 11 weeks at No. 1 across 1996 and 1997.
35. **Tha Crossroads – Bone Thugs-n-Harmony** — score 0/1000
   The Cleveland group's 1996 tribute to Eazy-E and lost friends held No. 1 for eight weeks.

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