This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 1991. The two longest running number-one singles of 1991 are "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams and "Black or White" by Michael Jackson, which each attained seven weeks at number-one. "Black or White" stayed at the top of the chart for four weeks in 1991 and three additional weeks in 1992, totaling seven weeks.
| Issue Date | Song | Artist(s) | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 5 | "Justify My Love" | Madonna | |
| January 12 | |||
| January 19 | "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" | Janet Jackson | |
| January 26 | "The First Time" | Surface | |
| February 2 | |||
| February 9 | "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" | C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams |
|
| February 16 | |||
| February 23 | "All the Man That I Need" | Whitney Houston | |
| March 2 | |||
| March 9 | "Someday" | Mariah Carey | |
| March 16 | |||
| March 23 | "One More Try" | Timmy T | |
| March 30 | "Coming Out of the Dark" | Gloria Estefan | |
| April 6 | |||
| April 13 | "I've Been Thinking About You" | Londonbeat | |
| April 20 | "You're in Love" | Wilson Phillips | |
| April 27 | "Baby Baby" | Amy Grant | |
| May 4 | |||
| May 11 | "Joyride" | Roxette | |
| May 18 | "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" | Hi-Five | |
| May 25 | "I Don't Wanna Cry" | Mariah Carey | |
| June 1 | |||
| June 8 | "More Than Words" | Extreme | |
| June 15 | "Rush Rush" | Paula Abdul | |
| June 22 | |||
| June 29 | |||
| July 6 | |||
| July 13 | |||
| July 20 | "Unbelievable" | EMF | |
| July 27 | "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" | Bryan Adams | |
| August 3 | |||
| August 10 | |||
| August 17 | |||
| August 24 | |||
| August 31 | |||
| September 7 | |||
| September 14 | "The Promise of a New Day" | Paula Abdul | |
| September 21 | "I Adore Mi Amor" | Color Me Badd | |
| September 28 | |||
| October 5 | "Good Vibrations" | Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway |
|
| October 12 | "Emotions" | Mariah Carey | |
| October 19 | |||
| October 26 | |||
| November 2 | "Romantic" | Karyn White | |
| November 9 | "Cream" | Prince and the New Power Generation | |
| November 16 | |||
| November 23 | "When a Man Loves a Woman" | Michael Bolton | |
| November 30 | "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" | P.M. Dawn | |
| December 7 | "Black or White" | Michael Jackson | |
| December 14 | |||
| December 21 | |||
| December 28 |
Famous quotes containing the words list, hot, number-one:
“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.- men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep- hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Helen. In love, i’faith, to the very tip of the nose.
Paris. He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I’m your number-one fan.”
—William Goldman (b. 1931)