List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1998

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Brandy's "The Boy Is Mine" (a duet with Monica) is the longest-running hit single of 1998, topping the Hot 100 for thirteen consecutive weeks. Brandy Essence Awards.jpg
Brandy's "The Boy Is Mine" (a duet with Monica) is the longest-running hit single of 1998, topping the Hot 100 for thirteen consecutive 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 airplay. In 1998, there were 16 singles that topped the chart, in 52 issue dates.

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During the year, 10 acts had achieved a first U.S. number-one single, namely: Savage Garden, Usher, Will Smith, Next, Brandy, Monica, Aerosmith, Barenaked Ladies, Lauryn Hill, and Divine. R&B singer Monica and pop singer Céline Dion both had two number-one singles in 1998.

Brandy and Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" is the longest-running single of the year, staying at number one for thirteen consecutive weeks. Other singles that had a multiple chart run includes Monica's "The First Night" with five weeks atop and Next's "Too Close", Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and R. Kelly's "I'm Your Angel" (featuring Céline Dion) with four weeks (the latter spending two additional weeks at number one in 1999).

Chart history

Key
†Indicates best-performing single of 1998 [1]
No.Issue dateSongArtist(s)Ref.
821January 3"Candle in the Wind 1997" /
"Something About the Way You Look Tonight"		 Elton John [2]
January 10 [3]
822January 17"Truly Madly Deeply" Savage Garden [4]
January 24 [5]
823January 31"Together Again" Janet [6]
February 7 [7]
824February 14"Nice & Slow" Usher [8]
February 21 [9]
825February 28"My Heart Will Go On" Céline Dion [10]
March 7 [11]
826March 14"Gettin' Jiggy wit It” Will Smith [12]
March 21 [13]
March 28 [14]
827April 4"All My Life" K-Ci & JoJo [15]
April 11 [16]
April 18 [17]
828April 25"Too Close" Next [18]
May 2 [19]
May 9 [20]
May 16 [21]
829May 23"My All" Mariah Carey [22]
reMay 30"Too Close"Next [23]
830June 6"The Boy Is Mine" Brandy and Monica [24]
June 13 [25]
June 20 [26]
June 27 [27]
July 4 [28]
July 11 [29]
July 18 [30]
July 25 [31]
August 1 [32]
August 8 [33]
August 15 [34]
August 22 [35]
August 29 [36]
831September 5"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" Aerosmith [37]
September 12 [38]
September 19 [39]
September 26 [40]
832October 3"The First Night"Monica [41]
October 10 [42]
833October 17"One Week" Barenaked Ladies [43]
reOctober 24"The First Night"Monica [44]
October 31 [45]
November 7 [46]
834November 14"Doo Wop (That Thing)" Lauryn Hill [47]
November 21 [48]
835November 28"Lately" Divine [49]
The Billboard Hot 100 updates its chart formula to include airplay-only songs that never had a commercial single release.
836December 5"I'm Your Angel" R. Kelly and Céline Dion [50]
December 12 [51]
December 19 [52]
December 26 [53]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
PositionArtistWeeks at No. 1
1Monica18
2Brandy13
3Céline Dion6
4Next5
5Aerosmith4
R. Kelly
7Will Smith3
K-Ci & JoJo
9Elton John2
Savage Garden
Janet
Usher
Lauryn Hill
8Mariah Carey1
Barenaked Ladies
Divine

See also

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