The Top 150 Hits of… 1992
Decided to take a break from more recent years and step back
to the 90’s. 1992 was the first full year Billboard used the new, more accurate
methods of compiling the Hot 100.
“Steel Bars” by Michael Bolton (#84) is the only song here
that wasn’t released as a single. I remember thinking at the time how
unfortunate that was as I was not a Bolton fan, this was one of the few songs
of his that I liked, and I sure wasn’t going to buy his album to get it. I
found out what I liked about it when I saw the writing credits: He co-wrote it
with Bob Dylan.
Color Me Badd’s “Forever Love” (#71) was released as a single, but not until after it had
already peaked at radio after 8 weeks on the airplay chart.
As will always be the case until radio-only songs were
allowed on the Hot 100 in 1999, I used the airplay chart history for weeks in
which a song was not on the main chart.
“Human Touch / Better Days” by Bruce Springsteen (#113) was
a double a-sided single. Sales of the single plus airplay from both songs were
combined for its Hot 100 point total every week. “Better Days” didn’t get a lot
of airplay but what little it got surely enhanced the single’s chart
performance. “Human Touch” would likely have been a few places lower on the
year-end chart without it.
Boyz II Men set a new record for weeks at #1 with “End of
the Road” (13 weeks). This had more to do with the new methodology than
anything else. In fact that record would stand less than a year before it was
broken again by Whitney Houston, then again by Boyz II Men two years after
that, this time with Mariah Carey.
It wasn’t just #1 either. Turnover at the top of the chart
slowed down considerably. In 1991, 102 songs made the top 10. In 1992, only 68
did. Before ’92, songs on this year-end list that peaked below #25 or so on the
weekly chart were unusual. Post-’92, there are a few songs here that never made
the top 40.
- End of the Road – Boyz II Men
- Baby Got Back – Sir Mix-a-Lot
- Baby-Baby-Baby – TLC
- Jump – Kris Kross
- Save the Best for Last – Vanessa Williams
- All 4 Love – Color Me Badd
- Just Another Day – Jon Secada
- Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton
- My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It) – En Vogue
- Under the Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers
- I Love Your Smile – Shanice
- Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough – Patty Smyth with Don Henley
- Jump Around – House of Pain
- To Be with You – Mr. Big
- I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
- Black or White – Michael Jackson
- Finally – CeCe Peniston
- It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday – Boyz II Men
- Achy Breaky Heart – Billy Ray Cyrus
- Set Adrift on Memory Bliss – P.M. Dawn
- How Do You Talk to An Angel – The Heights
- I’ll Be There – Mariah Carey
- November Rain – Guns n’ Roses
- Can’t Let Go – Mariah Carey
- Life Is a Highway – Tom Cochrane
- Remember the Time – Michael Jackson
- This Used to Be My Playground – Madonna
- When a Man Loves a Woman – Michael Bolton
- Diamonds and Pearls – Prince and the N.P.G.
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – George Michael/Elton John
- Masterpiece – Atlantic Starr
- If You Asked Me To – Celine Dion
- Humpin’ Around – Bobby Brown
- Giving Him Something He Can Feel – En Vogue
- Live and Learn – Joe Public
- Tell Me What You Want Me to Do – Tevin Campbell
- Come & Talk to Me – Jodeci
- Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
- Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover – Sophie B. Hawkins
- Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg – TLC
- Back to the Hotel – N2Deep
- Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
- Move This – Technotronic feat. Ya Kid K
- Tennessee – Arrested Development
- The Best Things in Life Are Free – Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson
- Would I Lie to You? – Charles & Eddie
- Make It Happen – Mariah Carey
- She’s Playing Hard to Get – Hi-Five
- Blowing Kisses in the Wind – Paula Abdul
- 2 Legit 2 Quit – Hammer
- People Everyday – Arrested Development
- The One – Elton John
- Stay – Shakespear’s Sister
- Please Don’t Go – K.W.S.
- Breakin’ My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes) – Mint Condition
- Wishing on a Star – The Cover Girls
- Good for Me – Amy Grant
- Walking on Broken Glass – Annie Lennox
- All I Want – Toad the Wet Sprocket
- I Can’t Dance – Genesis
- That’s What Love Is For – Amy Grant
- Hazard – Richard Marx
- Mysterious Ways – U2
- Free Your Mind – En Vogue
- Too Funky – George Michael
- One – U2
- No Son of Mine – Genesis
- Wildside – Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch
- Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad – Def Leppard
- When I Look into Your Eyes – Firehouse
- Forever Love – Color Me Badd
- Keep On Walkin’ – CeCe Peniston
- Hold On My Heart – Genesis
- The Way I Feel About You – Karyn White
- Beauty and the Beast – Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson
- Warm It Up – Kris Kross
- In the Closet – Michael Jackson
- Do I Have to Say the Words? – Bryan Adams
- Erotica – Madonna
- Friday I’m in Love – The Cure
- Everything About You – Ugly Kid Joe
- Keep Coming Back – Richard Marx
- Thought I’d Die and Gone to Heaven – Bryan Adams
- Steel Bars – Michael Bolton
- Addams Groove – Hammer
- Missing You Now – Michael Bolton
- Everything Changes – Kathy Troccoli
- Take This Heart – Richard Marx
- I Wanna Love You – Jade
- Uhh Ahh – Boyz II Men
- Justified and Ancient – The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette
- Broken Arrow – Rod Stewart
- Live for Loving You – Gloria Estefan
- Slow Motion – Color Me Badd
- Thinkin’ Back – Color Me Badd
- Keep It Comin’ – Keith Sweat
- Just Take My Heart – Mr. Big
- I Will Remember You – Amy Grant
- We Got a Love Thang – CeCe Peniston
- I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt
- Forever My Lady – Jodeci
- Let’s Get Rocked – Def Leppard
- They Want EFX – Das EFX
- Someone to Hold – Trey Lorenz
- Nu Nu – Lidell Townsell & M.T.F.
- I’ll Get By – Eddie Money
- Mind Playing Tricks on Me – Geto Boys
- Do It to Me – Lionel Richie
- Jesus He Knows Me – Genesis
- Is It Good to You – Heavy D & the Boyz
- I’m the One You Need – Jody Watley
- Angel Baby – Angelica
- Human Touch / Better Days – Bruce Springsteen
- You Remind Me – Mary J. Blige
- Oochie Coochie – MC Brains
- Just for Tonight – Vanessa Williams
- Restless Heart – Peter Cetera
- Change – Lisa Stansfield
- I’ve Got a Lot to Learn About Love – The Storm
- Spending My Time – Roxette
- Too Blind to See It – Kym Sims
- Love Me All Up – Stacy Earl
- I Will Be Here for You – Michael W. Smith
- You Won’t See Me Cry – Wilson Phillips
- Nothing Broken But My Heart – Celine Dion
- Vibeology – Paula Abdul
- Kiss You Back – Digital Underground
- Until Your Love Comes Back Around – RTZ
- Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) – Rozalla
- Crossover – EPMD
- Save Up All Your Tears – Cher
- Will You Marry Me? – Paula Abdul
- Take Time – Chris Walker
- Tender Kisses – Tracie Spencer
- Always the Last to Know – Del Amitri
- Top of the World – Van Halen
- Mama, I’m Coming Home – Ozzy Osbourne
- Jam – Michael Jackson
- Slow Dance (Hey Mr. DJ) – R. Kelly & Public Announcement
- What Becomes of the Brokenhearted – Paul Young
- I Wanna Be Your Girl – Icy Blu
- Not Enough Time – INXS
- Give U My Heart – Babyface feat. Toni Braxton
- Stay – Jodeci
- What Goes Around Comes Around – Giggles
- Come As You Are – Nirvana
- Why – Annie Lennox
- If You Go Away – New Kids on the Block
- You Showed Me – Salt-n-Pepa
- Mr. Loverman – Shabba Ranks
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