List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1995

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Pop singer Mariah Carey's hit single "One Sweet Day" held the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 for a record sixteen weeks. Mariah Carey13 Edwards Dec 1998.jpg
Pop singer Mariah Carey's hit single "One Sweet Day" held the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 for a record sixteen weeks.

The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplays.

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Twelve singles topped the chart during the year. "On Bended Knee" by Boyz II Men began its peak at the top in 1994. The longest running number-one single of 1995 is "Fantasy" by Mariah Carey, which logged eight weeks atop the chart. The second longest-reigning number one single is a three-way tie between "Take a Bow" by Madonna, "This Is How We Do It" by Montell Jordan, and "Waterfalls" by TLC, with seven weeks each.

"One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men held the record for the longest running song at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 with 16 weeks. It also broke the 14-week record held by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and Boyz II Men's "I'll Make Love to You". Five of those weeks were logged in 1995 and the other 11 weeks were logged in 1996. Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" became the first single to debut at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 and holds the Guinness World Record as the first song in the 37-year history of the Billboard Hot 100 to debut at number one. In addition, "Fantasy", "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" by Whitney Houston, and "One Sweet Day" also debuted at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100.

That year, 5 acts earned their first number one song: TLC, Montell Jordan, Seal, Coolio, and L.V. Mariah Carey and TLC were the only acts to hit number one more than once, with two songs each.

Chart history

Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard 's 1995 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
No.Issue dateSongArtist(s)Ref.
reJanuary 7"On Bended Knee" Boyz II Men [1]
January 14 [2]
January 21 [3]
794January 28"Creep" TLC [4]
February 4 [5]
February 11 [6]
February 18 [7]
795February 25"Take a Bow" Madonna [8]
March 4 [9]
March 11 [10]
March 18 [11]
March 25 [12]
April 1 [13]
April 8 [14]
796April 15"This Is How We Do It" Montell Jordan [15]
April 22 [16]
April 29 [17]
May 6 [18]
May 13 [19]
May 20 [20]
May 27 [21]
797June 3"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" Bryan Adams [22]
June 10 [23]
June 17 [24]
June 24 [25]
July 1 [26]
798July 8"Waterfalls"TLC [27]
July 15 [28]
July 22 [29]
July 29 [30]
August 5 [31]
August 12 [32]
August 19 [33]
799August 26"Kiss from a Rose" Seal [34]
800September 2"You Are Not Alone" Michael Jackson [35]
801September 9"Gangsta's Paradise" Coolio featuring L.V. [36]
September 16 [37]
September 23 [38]
802September 30"Fantasy" Mariah Carey [39]
October 7 [40]
October 14 [41]
October 21 [42]
October 28 [43]
November 4 [44]
November 11 [45]
November 18 [46]
803November 25"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" Whitney Houston [47]
804December 2"One Sweet Day"Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men [48]
December 9 [49]
December 16 [50]
December 23 [51]
December 30 [52]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
PositionArtistWeeks at No. 1
1Mariah Carey13
2TLC11
3Boyz II Men8
4Madonna7
Montell Jordan
6Bryan Adams5
7Coolio3
L.V.
9Seal1
Michael Jackson
Whitney Houston

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