The 1990s had roughly half as many “bad” #1s as the 1980s. Does this mean the music was twice as good? No, of course not. Don’t be stupid. Anomalies in Billboard’s chart methodology in the 1990s allowed unremarkable songs to hog the pinnacle of the Hot 100 for months at a time. As a result, consensus bad #1s were very rare. (So were consensus good #1s, as many of the decade’s most popular acts – Nirvana, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Third Eye Blind, Hootie & the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Shania Twain, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Backstreet Boys, Sublime – were never able to break through the Hot 100 logjam and have a chart-topping hit.) But don’t worry – we’ll be back on track for a lot of poorly reviewed #1 songs in the 2000s.
The “Bad” #1s Museum – 1990s Inductees
“I’ll Be Your Everything” by Tommy Page (1990)
“Ice Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice (1990)
“Because I Love You (The Postman Song)” by Stevie B (1990)
“One More Try” by Timmy T (1991)
“When a Man Loves a Woman” by Michael Bolton (1991)
“How Do You Talk to an Angel” by the Heights (1992)
“All for Love” by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Sting (1994)
“Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?” by Bryan Adams (1995)
“I’m Your Angel” by R. Kelly & Celine
Dion (1998)
The Runners-Up
“How Am I Supposed to Live Without You” by Michael Bolton (1990)
“Opposites Attract” by Paula Abdul with the Wild Pair (1990)
“She Ain’t Worth It” by Glenn Medeiros with Bobby Brown (1990)
“If Wishes Came True” by Sweet Sensation (1990)
“The First Time” by Surface (1991)
“I Adore Mi Amor” by Color Me Badd (1991)
“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred (1992)
“(I Can’t Help) Falling in Love with You” by UB40 (1993)
“I Swear” by All-4-One (1994)
“Because You Loved Me” by Celine
Dion (1996)
“Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)”
by Los Del Rio (1996)
“I’ll Be Missing You” by Puff
Daddy & Faith Evans featuring 112 (1997)
“4 Seasons of Loneliness” by
Boyz II Men (1997)
“Truly Madly Deeply” by
Savage Garden (1998)
“I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith (1998)
“Wild Wild West” by Will Smith featuring Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee (1999)
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