If you wanted, you could argue that the ’90s, especially the stretch of time after Billboard started using SoundScan to figure out the Hot 100, were the pop-music equivalent of baseball’s steroid era. When a Boyz II Men single reached #1, it stayed there for a long time. But the insane thing about Boyz II Men’s chart dominance is that they got those 50 weeks out of just five songs. In terms of chart-topping longevity, Boyz II Men aren’t quite the champions of that particular decade their collaborator Mariah Carey has them beat by 10 weeks. That’s two weeks short of a full year - essentially one entire ’90. Over the course of the 1990s, the Philadelphia vocal group Boyz II Men spent a grand total of 50 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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