US #1s of 1991

I see very little wrong with this year in pop music.

I saw Bryan Adams play several years back, in a pretty small theatre. He was fine. But when he played “Everything I Do I Do It for You” all these couples starting dancing and it really struck me what a wedding song it became, and who am I to deride even the biggest pile of soggy ballad if it makes so many people happy?

I fucking hate it with a passion. Did America have to suffer through it being number one for FOUR FUCKING MONTHS?

PM Dawn ftw

xp: I was grounded for one of those 4 months and had little to occupy myself with except sitting in my room listening to the radio. That song was my worst enemy.

xpost Don't get me wrong, I can't stand the song. I just won't begrudge those happy couples dancing to their terrible song. Though tbf it's not even the worst Bryan Adams movie song.

but I always begrudge happy couples

Polarizing reactions. my thoughts:
- There were a lot more songs on the radio then. vs today, I'm pretty sure the iHeart station down the street still has "Thank You Next" in their Top 10 at 10. In 1991 there was a new "Thank You Next" every 4-5 weeks. (By that, I mean a song you could tell would be remembered for decades as an artifact of the era, event-type songs widely associated with personal moments -- these songs obv still exist but I don't think receive excessive airplay as often and are thus not treasured as widely)
- "Bad songs" were shitty but at least fun to laugh at. I've sung "I've Been Thinking About You" at karaoke 3 or 4 times in my life because I think it's bad but also funny enough that it no longer sounds quite as bad.
- Many 12-year-olds in 1991 thought "Everything I Do" was a cool song, which I guess is sort of helping me understand how many 12-year-olds in 2019 don't hear Imagine Dragons as vicious eardrum stabbing
- I'm not old; YOURE old.

Voted for PM Dawn

It's hart to call the Londonbeat "bad" when it's got that amazing high life-drenched guitar part.

I didn't know it was good until like 2004

So no it's not bad at all and I def wanna hear it right now.

I find it hard to believe that anyone who wasn't an old ever thought 'Everything I Do' was cool. Even as a fairly uncritical consumer I knew back then that that song and everything Bolton did was and always would be lame. And turns out I was right.

It was the summer of my junior year and we all -- girls and boys -- thought it a damp Kleenex.

The kids who took "Chorus" class (probably 50 kids) sang "Everything I Do" during my 6th grade school concert.

i remember LOVING "everything i do" at the time. i was ... four

I never realized Bryan Adams had an album between Reckless and Waking Up The Neighbors. I recognize zero of these songs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Fire_(album)

PM Dawn by fucking miles. The MJ and Madonna songs are great too, but come on.

Is there any other year where one chart topper is better than all of the others by such a huge margin?

Also re: "Everything I Do," I was, I think, 8 when that song was a hit, and it was very popular in my peer group. I have no idea why. The movie tie-in? I don't remember Prince of Thieves being that much of a thing in third grade at the time.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is something of a Forgotbuster, or at least it would be if it didn't have that song attached to it. It was definitely pitched as an Event, and was actually the second highest grossing film of the year, behind Terminator 2; we were still in the post-Dances With Wolves but pre-Waterworld era of Costner, after all. I saw it opening night with my mom (something I remember feeling embarrassed about when I ran into a couple of kids I knew from school in the theatre, which attests to the fact that sixth graders, at least, were into it) and liked it okay, though when T2 came out the following month, I'd all but forgotten why I ever cared.

I don't really hate the song, btw. The first minute or so, before it gets carried away into bombast, is sorta pretty, and its certainly less painful than that Bolton cover on this list. I'd gladly have it erased from history, though, if it meant we would have been spared the Bryan Adams/Sting/Rod Stewart monstrosity "All For Love."

I really hated it but, yeah, lots of kids obv liked it. I feel like I remember my high school concert band playing an arrangement of it (as part of some kind of Prince of Thieves medley?) but I'm not sure if the timeline works (was in hs from 92-97, band from 92-95 iirc).

i was 8 in 1990. i remember sleeping outside one night that summer on top of a fort i had built out of logs and scrap wood with my cousin behind the doghouse. we had the radio on and "everything i do" came on and as i lay there looking up at the stars i thought it was the most beautiful thing i had ever heard and told my cousin so much.

as much.

terrible list. voting “gonna make you sweat”

love that post map

I have memories of childhood like that, not exactly the same, but your story reminds me of them

i cant...

i should know every one of these but even remember only

C+C
EMF
londonbeat
marky mark
prince
pm dawn
mj

just looking at the listnames i'm like "how can i not know this roxette? that HAS to be the correct pop answer?!

therefore: pm dawn (even though i am def not very into pm dawn).

i am pretty into the idea of that londonbeat song being actually bad. feels right to me.

xpost Prince of Thieves does have another great droll Alan Rickman villain role, so it's got that going for it. Also the start of Peak Morgan Freeman, and the end of peak Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (as such). Absolutely def. the middle of peak Costner, who I think had just come off Dances with Wolves the year before, which might explain the Robin Hood hype.

I'm pretty into the idea of suggest banning several posters, feels right

Robin Hood is totes a Forgotbuster. You could even get a Christian Slater action figure!

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'91 is such a weird year for me because it was one (of many) in which my family moved to a new town and also the year I started high school, so the hits from earlier in the year (eg Londonbeat, Amy Grant, Extreme) and from later in the year (eg Bryan Adams, MJ, C+C) feel like sounds from completely separate worlds. To the extent that I don't even have to double check when they charted (my siblings and I regard discrete chunks of '80s-'90s pop history largely in terms of where we happened to be living when the songs in question dropped). Super weird to think that I was enjoying early Celine Dion singles in the same year I first smelled teen spirit, but it is so.

okay so the londonbeat song is definitely not 'bad'. i do remain very puzzled at how it managed to be this unstoppable worldwide juggernaut, tho, especially performed by an act so bereft of personality, identity or quirk. with most one-hit wonders one can at least easily understand what it is about the artist that managed to take their one hit to the stratosphere -- not so with londonbeat. (somehow i might prefer the 12" mix to the original.)

so basically this was the result of fake democracy! but i like it better this way. i like turnover. i like clutter. maybe democracy sucks after all. wonder if actual pop listeners/voters would have elevated my beloved "promise of a new day" to #1. on the other hand, if the first #1 actual listeners elected was "set adrift," that's a good result too. maybe democracy works. i'm torn.

the funny thing is that billboard published the modernized sales and airplay charts for many months prior to infusing them into the hot 100, so by perusing those old issues you can actually get a sense of how all the hot 100's supposed big hits were 'actually' performing. sorry to say that "promise of a new day" almost certainly would not have gone #1 had the modernized methodology already been implemented. if i were to bet, i'd actually guess that none of the following would have reached the top had the new tabulation methods been in place:

"Coming Out of the Dark," Gloria Estefan
"You're in Love," Wilson Phillips
"The Promise of a New Day," Paula Abdul
"Joyride," Roxette
"I Don't Wanna Cry," Mariah Carey
"Romantic," Karyn White
"I've Been Thinking About You," Londonbeat
"Cream," Prince and the New Power Generation
"All the Man That I Need," Whitney Houston
"When a Man Loves a Woman," Michael Bolton

(i put them in order of least likely to hit #1 at top + likeliest to maybe sneak in there at the bottom -- tho the test chart positions visible on the first nü-hot 100 chart strongly suggest that neither prince nor bolton would have made it had the implementation been earlier, both to have been blocked by "set adrift")

that's not to say that these songs weren't real hits: almost all of them got strong-tho-not-outstanding airplay. but most of them were pulling sales in the modest-to-pretty-decent range, which was not gonna unseat an actual smash like bryan adams's, which was the simultaneous number one seller and airplay hit for many more weeks than indicated by its hot 100 run. (the gloria estefan one is the one exception -- in addition to being a weak seller, it didn't even reach the top 10 in 'real' monitored airplay.)

the funny thing is that billboard published the modernized sales and airplay charts for many months prior to infusing them into the hot 100, so by perusing those old issues you can actually get a sense of how all the hot 100's supposed big hits were 'actually' performing. sorry to say that "promise of a new day" almost certainly would not have gone #1 had the modernized methodology already been implemented. if i were to bet, i

To your point, for I cited this article not long ago: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/67227/chart-beat-chat

My mom used to get annoyed cos I would insist the lyrics were

U must be Flintstone crazy

I quibble about "Coming Out of the Dark," #1 in airplay and #3 and climbing in sales. If not that week, or if not #1 for two weeks, then it would've hit #1.

"love will never do" > "black cat" > "miss you much"

those "coming out of the dark" airplay/sales rankings you cite are from the old survey-based methodology, which were also still getting published at that time (until the june 8, 1991 issue). on the monitored airplay chart, which was getting published concurrently, it never got past #12. once the soundscan-based sales chart came out in the june 8th issue, it was basically already off the chart (briefly appeared at #74 afaict), with many older hits still lingering above. unlike most of the other #1s from this year, it also never ultimately received an riaa certification, so again despite its #3 survey-based sales ranking my guess would be that it didn't actually sell well.

Can't believe y'all are questioning the greatness of "I've Been Thinking About You" . The fact that such a faceless group made it such a big hit only speaks to the song's virtues

Also, sh bow bow

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Eleven songs I can't recall for the life of me.

Whereas I could deliver an impromptu karaoke performance of at least the chorus of every song here. Brainspace well-utilized.

nostalgia is powerful

Biggest takeaway from this poll is just how many more hit songs there were than today.

Huh. I went back and listened to the 11 that did not ring a bell, and all but two or three of them, maybe, still did not ring a bell. However, most of the ones I didn't know were schmaltzy ballads, which was my least favorite style of '90s pop, so maybe I heard them and they went in one ear and out the other. An exception was Romantic by Karyn White, which I'm pretty sure I'd never heard but obviously rang a bell because of Jam and Lewis.

I was 16 or so in 1991. I think this was one of my all time least favorite years for radio pop.

Story checks out, I was 15 the year there wasn't much interest in my corner for pop, and that was 1994.

Also, these are all very good-to-great pop singles fuiud...

"Justify My Love," Madonna
"Love Will Never Do (Without You)," Janet Jackson
"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams
"Someday," Mariah Carey
"One More Try," Timmy T
"I've Been Thinking About You," Londonbeat
"Baby Baby," Amy Grant
"Joyride," Roxette
"I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)," Hi-Five
"Rush Rush," Paula Abdul
"I Adore Mi Amor," Color Me Badd
"Good Vibrations," Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway
"Romantic," Karyn White
"Cream," Prince and the New Power Generation
"Set Adrift on Memory Bliss," P.M. Dawn
"Black or White," Michael Jackson

good list

Yep, but it needs some “Emotions” too.

I love all three of the Mariah Carey entries here