List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of 1990

These are the UK Official Indie Chart number-one hits of the 1990 as compiled by MRIB and Music Week from August 11.

Issue date	Song	Artist	Record Label	ref
6 January	"Getting Away with It"	Electronic	Factory	[1]
13 January	"Madchester Rave On" E.P.	Happy Mondays
20 January
27 January
3 February	"Ride" E.P.	Ride	Creation
10 February	"Sleep With Me"	Birdland	Lazy
17 February	"Indian Rope"	The Charlatans	Situation Two
24 February	"Enjoy the Silence"	Depeche Mode	Mute
3 March
10 March	"Elephant Stone"	The Stone Roses	Silvertone
17 March	"Blue Savannah"	Erasure	Mute
24 March
8 April	"This Is How It Feels"	Inspiral Carpets	Cow	[2]
15 April	"Step On"	Happy Mondays	Factory
22 April
29 April
5 May
12 May
19 May	"Glider EP"	My Bloody Valentine	Creation
26 May	"Better the Devil You Know"	Kylie Minogue	PWL
2 June
9 June	"The Only One I Know"	The Charlatans	Situation Two
16 June
23 June	"World in Motion"	England New Order	Factory
30 June	"She Comes in the Fall"	Inspiral Carpets	Cow
7 July
14 July	"One Love"	The Stone Roses	Silvertone
21 July
28 July
4 August	"Velouria"	Pixies	4AD
11 August	"Naked in the Rain"	Blue Pearl	Big Life	[3]
18 August				[4]
25 August				[5]
1 September
8 September	"What Time Is Love?"	The KLF	KLF Communications	[6]
15 September
22 September				[7]
29 September
6 October	"Groovy Train"	The Farm	Produce	[8]
13 October	"I Can't Stand It!"	Twenty 4 Seven	Freaky
20 October				[9]
27 October
3 November	"Kinky Afro"	Happy Mondays	Factory	[10]
10 November				[11]
17 November	"Step Back in Time"	Kylie Minogue	PWL
24 November				[12]
1 December	Island Head EP	Inspiral Carpets	Cow/Mute
8 December	"Sucker DJ"	Dimples D.	FBI	[13]
15 December	"All Together Now"	The Farm	Produce	[14]
22 December
29 December				[15]

References

1. Network charts early 1990
2. Network charts April - August 1990
3. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 11 August 1990. p. 8. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
4. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 18 August 1990. p. 25. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
5. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 1 September 1990. p. 13. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
6. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 15 September 1990. p. 21. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
7. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 29 September 1990. p. 21. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
8. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 13 October 1990. p. 25. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
9. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 27 October 1990. p. 45. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
10. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 3 November 1990. p. 59. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
11. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 17 November 1990. p. 36. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
12. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 1 December 1990. p. 16. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
13. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 8 December 1990. p. 12. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
14. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 22 December 1990. p. 14. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.
15. "Independent Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 5 January 1991. p. 2. ISSN   0265-1548 – via World Radio History.