Though '91 may be defined in our memories by the alt-rock acts that emerged and/or took over that year, these were the songs that really represented the identity of popular music at the time, and we were just as fortunate to have it as such. Title Artist(s) 1 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Bryan Adams: 2 "I Wanna Sex You Up" Color Me Badd: 3 "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" C+C Music Factory: 4 But 1991 was also about a whole lot more than that, so let's take this item by item and break down just why this year cast a shadow over the whole rest of the decade to follow. In dance, the diva house breakout of 1990 -- house beats with pop hooks, wailing female vocals and the occasional guest rap verse -- continued strong into '91, ruling the radio. View the current Belgium Singles Top 50 with at #1 Savage Love (laxed - Siren Beat) by Jawsh 685 and Jason DeRulo. 4 novembre 1984/4 novembre 2009, le Top 50 a 25 ans jour pour jour ! ; Premiers succès de Gérald de Palmas (Sur la route) et IAM (Je danse le mia). Metallica had built a nationwide following throughout the '80s with little radio support and only one specifically made music video. -- who also released their final album in '91, the nihilistic (though unexpectedly Billboard 200-topping) Despite all these legendary groups making waves, the biggest crossover alt-rap success of '91 came from a far less-remembered source: New Jersey brother duo PM Dawn, who scored an improbable #1 on the Hot 100 with their Spandau Ballet-sampling "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss." Naughty By Nature spawned one of the genre's all-time catchphrases (couched in one of its all-time call-and-response choruses) with "O.P.P." Eurodance hitmakers Black Box followed up "Everybody Everybody" with "Strike It Up," a crowd-inciter that still gets played at about half the sporting events in the world. For the album, Metallica not only courted an arena-ready sound with the help of producer Bob Rock, and released several of their most concise and radio-friendly singles, but even filmed a whole spate of music videos, including cinematic and high-budget clips for "The Unforgiven" and "Enter Sandman."

Jomanda's "Got a Love for You." In addition to ushering in the new with breakout acts like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, 1991 was an incredible year for alt-rockers of the previous decade to reinvent themselves and set themselves up to achieve even greater success in the decade to come. Achetez et vendez à d'autres collectionneurs sur la Marketplace. Singles numéro un des téléchargements 2005-2011. Like any musical year worth a damn, it was chock full of great pop hits that came out of nowhere, and artists who flirted with the mainstream before quickly disappearing back to the underground (or just disappearing altogether).

Even with the burgeoning takeover of the grunge set, and the strong showing from the '80s alt-rock acts of yore, there was no arguing about the two biggest rock acts of 1991 were: Metallica and Guns n Roses. As big as Metallica was clearly aiming to be in '91, their ambitions were easily dwarfed by those of Guns N' Roses, who put out two whole double albums--a combined 152 minutes of music--on the same day in September, with the After Nirvana, Pearl Jam and their arc would redefine the mainstream for '90s rock, neither Metallica nor GnR would experience similar success again. Alternative rap was never particularly cohesive as a genre and most of its greatest artists would probably shudder to hear themselves referred to as such, but there's no denying that in '91, there were tons of notable rappers who took a much different, usually more intricate and cerebral path to hip-hop success than the MC Hammers and Vanilla Ices ruling the charts at the time.

Billboard is part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. The list on this page is for all #1 hit Pop singles for 1991 using proprietary methods. From Nirvana to Naughty By Nature, from Guns n Roses to "Gonna Make You Sweat," it's pretty clear that 1991 is the year that all other years of the '90s should be measured against. Though PM Dawn would quickly become dated hip-hop punchlines after the mainstreaming of G-Funk made them look tissue-soft by comparison, "Adrift" remains a gem of blissed-out yacht rap, as smooth and agreeable as the best Hall & Oates and Steely Dan productions, and a clear influence on terminally chill modern day dance-pop producers like Lemonade and Goldroom. But these 50 crucial songs capture glorious moments from all over the Nineties music explosion – hits, obscurities, cult classics, dance-floor jams, guitar ragers, karaoke standards. Rhythm Syndicate's "P.A.S.S.I.O.N." And 1991 was the year where that quasi-revolution happened in earnest -- the year, as Sonic Youth said in their I'll elaborate on that further in a bit.

Seal's "Crazy." Enigma's "Sadeness (Pt. A Tribe Called Quest were probably the definitive group of the moment, releasing their classic On the West Coast, Cypress Hill was taking more closely after their geographical brethren N.W.A.

No other year in the '90s can claim more than two, and four of them don't even have a single one. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1991.. No. The first musical year of a decade is usually transitional at best -- listening to the most notable releases from a year that ends in a zero is usually the sound of the previous decade's leftovers being churned through as everyone else throws stuff against the wall trying to figure out what might end up sticking for the decade to come. Tops 10 des ventes annuelles de singles