List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1994

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Boyz II Men (pictured) earned a Hot 100 number-one single with "I'll Make Love to You", which stayed at the top position for fourteen straight weeks. Boyz II Men - Live at Vega.jpg
Boyz II Men (pictured) earned a Hot 100 number-one single with "I'll Make Love to You", which stayed at the top position for fourteen straight weeks.

This is a list of the American Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 1994. There were 10 singles that topped the chart this year. The first of these, "Hero" by Mariah Carey, spent three weeks at the top, concluding a four-week run that had begun in December 1993. The longest running number-one single of 1994 is "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men, which logged 14 weeks at number-one, tying the song with "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston for the most weeks at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 until "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men stayed atop the chart from December 1995 to the first quarter of 1996.

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With the rise of "On Bended Knee" to the top of the Hot 100, Boyz II Men became the first act to chart consecutive number-one singles in the United States since The Beatles charted three consecutive number-one singles in 1964.

Furthermore, Lisa Loeb became the first artist to reach #1 with "Stay (I Missed You)" before signing to any record label.

That year, 7 acts earned their first number one song: Celine Dion, Ace of Base, R. Kelly, All-4-One, Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories, and Ini Kamoze. Sting, already having hit number one with The Police, earned his first number one song as a solo act. Boyz II Men was the only act to hit number one more than once, by hitting twice.

Chart history

Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard 's 1994 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
No.Issue dateSongArtist(s)Ref.
784January 1"Hero" Mariah Carey [1]
January 8 [2]
January 15 [3]
785January 22"All for Love" Bryan Adams / Rod Stewart / Sting [4]
January 29 [5]
February 5 [6]
786February 12"The Power of Love" Céline Dion [7]
February 19 [8]
February 26 [9]
March 5 [10]
787March 12"The Sign" Ace of Base [11]
March 19 [12]
March 26 [13]
April 2 [14]
788April 9"Bump n' Grind" R. Kelly [15]
April 16 [16]
April 23 [17]
April 30 [18]
reMay 7"The Sign"Ace of Base [19]
May 14 [20]
789May 21"I Swear" All-4-One [21]
May 28 [22]
June 4 [23]
June 11 [24]
June 18 [25]
June 25 [26]
July 2 [27]
July 9 [28]
July 16 [29]
July 23 [30]
July 30 [31]
790August 6"Stay (I Missed You)" Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories [32]
August 13 [33]
August 20 [34]
791August 27"I'll Make Love to You" Boyz II Men [35]
September 3 [36]
September 10 [37]
September 17 [38]
September 24 [39]
October 1 [40]
October 8 [41]
October 15 [42]
October 22 [43]
October 29 [44]
November 5 [45]
November 12 [46]
November 19 [47]
November 26 [48]
792December 3"On Bended Knee" [49]
December 10 [50]
793December 17"Here Comes the Hotstepper" Ini Kamoze [51]
December 24 [52]
reDecember 31"On Bended Knee"Boyz II Men [53]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
PositionArtistWeeks at No. 1
1Boyz II Men17
2All-4-One11
3Ace of Base6
4Céline Dion4
R. Kelly
6Mariah Carey3
Bryan Adams
Rod Stewart
Sting
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
11Ini Kamoze2

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