List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1993

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Whitney Houston earned her longest running song on the Hot 100 number-one single with "I Will Always Love You", which stayed at the top position for nine straight weeks. Whitney Houston (cropped3).JPEG
Whitney Houston earned her longest running song on the Hot 100 number-one single with "I Will Always Love You", which stayed at the top position for nine straight weeks.

This is a list of the U.S. Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 1993. There were 11 singles that topped the chart this year. The first of these, "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston, spent nine weeks at the top, concluding a 14-week run that had begun in November 1992.

Contents

That year, 6 acts earn their first number one song: Peabo Bryson, Regina Belle, Snow, Silk, SWV, and Meat Loaf. Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey were the only acts to hit number one more than once, with each of them hitting twice.

Chart history

Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard 's 1993 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
No.Issue dateSongArtist(s)Ref.
774January 2"I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston [1]
January 9 [2] [3]
January 16 [4] [5]
January 23 [6] [7]
January 30 [8] [9]
February 6 [10] [11]
February 13 [12] [13]
February 20 [14] [15]
February 27 [16] [17]
775March 6"A Whole New World" Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle [18]
776March 13"Informer" Snow [19]
March 20 [20]
March 27 [21]
April 3 [22]
April 10 [23]
April 17 [24]
April 24 [25]
777May 1"Freak Me" Silk [26]
May 8 [27]
778May 15"That's the Way Love Goes" Janet Jackson [28]
May 22 [29]
May 29 [30]
June 5 [31]
June 12 [32]
June 19 [33]
June 26 [34]
July 3 [35]
779July 10"Weak" SWV [36]
July 17 [37]
780July 24"Can't Help Falling in Love" UB40 [38]
July 31 [39]
August 7 [40]
August 14 [41]
August 21 [42]
August 28 [43]
September 4 [44]
781September 11"Dreamlover" Mariah Carey [45]
September 18 [46]
September 25 [47]
October 2 [48]
October 9 [49]
October 16 [50]
October 23 [51]
October 30 [52]
782November 6"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" Meat Loaf [53]
November 13 [54]
November 20 [55]
November 27 [56]
December 4 [57]
783December 11"Again"Janet Jackson [58]
December 18 [59]
784December 25"Hero"Mariah Carey [60]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
PositionArtistWeeks at No. 1
1Janet Jackson10
2Whitney Houston9
Mariah Carey
4Snow7
UB40
6Meat Loaf5
7Silk2
SWV
9Peabo Bryson1
Regina Belle

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