September 18, 1982. I can peg my fascination with music charts to that date. After listening to a local radio station’s countdown of the hits of the summer, I decided to make my own list of favorites (see original list here). I ended up revising it every few days, eventually developing my own charts which I maintained into the ‘90s.
I’ve also projected before and after those lists to create speculative lists of #1 songs for eras not covered by those original charts. You can check out those links here, but this page is focused on the #1 songs that might have been for me in the 1980s.
1990:
- Jan. 6: Aerosmith “Janie’s Got a Gun” (2 wks)
- Jan. 20: Marillion “After Me” (3 wks)
- Feb. 10: Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (4 wks)
- Mar. 10: Fish “Cliché” (3 wks)
- Mar. 31: Faith No More “Epic” (3 wks)
- Apr. 21: Animal Logic “I’m Sorry Baby I Want You in My Life” (2 wks)
- May 5: Bonnie Raitt “Nick of Time” (2 wks)
- May 19: Fish “A Gentleman’s Excuse Me” (1 wk)
- May 26: Shawn Colvin “Diamond in the Rough” (2 wks)
- June 9: Sinéad O’Connor “Black Boys on Mopeds” (3 wks)
- June 30: Tom Petty “Alright for Now” (2 wks)
- July 14: Adrian Belew “Shoe Salesman” (1 wk)
- July 21: Del Amitri “Kiss This Thing Goodbye” (4 wks)
- Aug. 18: Guns N’ Roses “Civil War” (4 wks)
- Sept. 15: Styx “Love Is the Ritual” (3 wks)
- Oct. 6: Roger Waters with Sinéad O’Connor “Mother (live)” (1 wk)
- Oct. 13 Styx “All in a Day’s Work” (3 wks)
- Nov. 3: Toy Matinee “There Was a Little Boy” (3 wks)
- Nov. 24: Don Henley “New York Minute” (2 wks)
- Dec. 8: U2 “Night and Day” (2 wks)
- Dec 22: Seal “Crazy” (3 wks)
1991:
- Jan. 12: Enigma “Sadeness Part 1” (3 wks)
- Feb. 2: Chris Isaak “Wicked Game” (2 wks)
- Feb. 16: Queensrÿche “Silent Lucidity” (4 wks)
- Mar. 16: Extreme “More Than Words” (2 wks)
- Mar. 30: Simple Minds “See the Lights” (2 wks)
- Apr. 13: Crash Test Dummies “Superman’s Song” (4 wks)
- May 11: Lyle Lovett “Friend of the Devil” (3 wks)
- June 1: The Williams Brothers “It’s a Wonderful Life” (2 wks)
- June 15: The Williams Brothers “Miss This World” (2 wks)
- June 29: Aha “The Way We Talk” (1 wk)
- July 6: Tony Banks with Fish “Another Murder of a Day” (2 wks)
- July 20: Marillion “The Party” (2 wks)
- Aug. 3: Marillion “A Collection” (1 wk)
- Aug. 10: Animal Logic “What Looks Good on the Outside” (1 wk)
- Aug. 17: The Commitments “I Never Loved a Man” (2 wks)
- Aug. 31: The Commitments “Try a Little Tenderness” (2 wks)
- Sept. 14: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (4 wks)
- Oct. 2: Nirvana “Something in the Way” (1 wk)
- Oct. 19: The Williams Brothers “Can’t Cry Hard Enough” (2 wks)
- Nov. 2: Sinéad O’Connor “Sacrifice” (2 wks)
- Nov 16: Tori Amos “Silent All These Years” (2 wks)
- Nov. 30: Tori Amos “Me and a Gun” (5 wks)
1992:
- Jan. 4: U2 “One” (3 wks)
- Jan. 25: T-Bone Burnett “Humans from Earth” (3 wks)
- Feb. 15: Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” (5 wks)
- Mar. 21: Eric Clapton “Tears in Heaven” (6 wks)
- May 2: Lyle Lovett “Church” (2 wks)
- May 16: Tori Amos “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (3 wks)
- June 6: Marillion “Sympathy” (1 wk)
- June 13: Sting with Eric Clapton “It’s Probably Me” (3 wks)
- July 4: Melissa Etheridge “The Letting Go” (1 wk)
- July 11: Faith No More “RV” (2 wks)
- July 25: Toad the Wet Sprocket “Hold Her Down” (2 wks)
- Aug. 8: Eric Clapton “Circus Left Town” (4 wks)
- Sept. 5: Toad the Wet Sprocket “Pray Your Gods” (1 wk)
- Sept. 12: Pearl Jam “Jeremy” (4 wks)
- Oct. 10: Roger Waters “What God Wants” (2 wks)
- Oct. 24: Boyz II Men “The Birth of Christ” (5 wks)
- Nov. 28: Shawn Colvin “Shawn Colvin “I Don’t Know Why” (5 wks)
1993:
- Jan. 2: Dada “Dizz Knee Land” (3 wks)
- Jan. 23: The Musical Cast of Toys “The Closing of the Year (Reprise)” (5 wks)
- Feb. 27: U2 with R.E.M. as Automatic Baby “One” (3 wks)
- Mar. 20: Fish “Solo” (2 wks)
- Apr. 3: Alice in Chains “Rooster” (3 wks)
- Apr. 24: Sting “Epilogue (Nothing ‘Bout Me)” (3 wks)
- May 15: Terence Trent D’Arby “Tension Inside the Sweetness/Frankie and Johnny (T.I.T.S./F&J)” (4 wks)
- June 12: Tears for Fears “Break It Down Again” (3 wks)
- July 3: Robert Plant “If I Were a Carpenter” (2 wks)
- July 17: Stone Temple Pilots “Plush (acoustic)” (3 wks)
- Aug. 7: Pearl Jam with Victoria Williams “Crazy Mary” (3 wks)
- Aug. 28: Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder & Mike McCready “Masters of War (live)” (3 wks)
- Sept. 18: Pearl Jam “Rockin’ in the Free World (live)” (2 wks)
- Oct. 2: Prince “Nothing Compares 2 U” (2 wks)
- Oct. 16: Alice in Chains “Down in a Hole” (2 wks)
- Oct. 30: U2 with Bruce Springsteen “Stand by Me (live)” (2 wks)
- Nov. 13: Pearl Jam “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (2 wks)
- Nov. 27: Pearl Jam “Daughter” (2 wks)
- Dec. 11: Crash Test Dummies “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” (4 wks)
1994:
- Jan. 8: Stone Temple Pilots “Creep” (2 wks)
- Jan. 22: Nirvana “All Apologies” (2 wks)
- Feb. 5: Bruce Springsteen “Streets of Philadelphia” (3 wks)
- Feb. 26: Tori Amos “God” (3 wks)
- Mar. 19: Tori Amos “Home on the Range” (1 wk)
- Mar. 26: Billy Joel “Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel)” (2 wks)
- Apr. 9: Marillion “The Hollow Man” (1 wk)
- Apr. 16: Pearl Jam “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (2 wks)
- Apr. 30: Pearl Jam “Saying No (live)” (2 wks)
- May 14: Frente! “Bizarre Love Triangle” (5 wks)
- June 18: Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories “Stay (I Missed You)” (4 wks)
- July 16: Nine Inch Nails “Closer” (3 wks)
- Aug. 6: Stone Temple Pilots “12 Gracious Melodies” (2 wks)
- Aug. 20: Seal “Kiss from a Rose” (2 wks)
- Sept. 3: Pearl Jam “Better Man” (4 wks)
- Oct. 1: Sinéad O’Connor “The House of the Rising Sun” (2 wks)
- Oct 15: Sinéad O’Connor “All Apologies” (2 wks)
- Oct. 29: Eagles “Get Over It” (4 wks)
- Nov. 26: Todd Snider “Alright Guy” (3 wks)
- Dec. 17: Queensrÿche “Bridge” (4 wks)
1995:
- Jan. 14: Indigo Girls with K’S choice “Rockin’ in the Free World (live)” (2 wks)
- Jan. 28: Live “Lightning Crashes” (3 wks)
- Feb. 23: Melissa Etheridge with Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road (live)” (5 wks)
- Mar. 25: Kevin Gilbert “Song for a Dead Friend” (4 wks)
- Aprl. 22: Collective Soul “December” (3 wks)
- May 13: Tori Amos with Robert Plant “Down by the Seaside” (1 wk)
- May 20: Nine Inch Nails “Hurt” (3 wks)
- June 10: Filter “Hey Man, Nice Shot” (3 wks)
- July 1: The Rembrandts “I’ll Be There for You” (4 wks)
- July 29: Marillion “Beautiful” (2 wks)
- Aug. 12: Kevin Gilbert “Kashmir” (3 wks)
- Sept. 2: Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know” (4 wks)
- Sept. 30: Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise” (5 wks)
- Nov. 14: David Bowie “Outside” (3 wks)
- Nov. 25: Squeeze with Cathy Dennis “Temptation for Love” (3 wks)
- Dec. 16: Tracy Chapman “At This Point in My Life” (2 wks)
- Dec. 30: Candlebox “Understanding” (1 wk)
1996:
- Jan. 6: Alanis Morissette “Ironic” (3 wks)
- Jan. 27: Foo Fighters “Big Me” (2 wks)
- Feb. 10: Stabbing Westward “What Do I Have to Do?” (3 wks)
- Mar. 2: Jars of Clay “Flood” (3 wks)
- Mar. 23: Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know (live at the Grammys)” (4 wks)
- Apr. 20: Sting “I Hung My Head” (3 wks)
- May 11: Primitive Radio Gods “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand” (3 wks)
- June 1: Ben Folds Five “Underground” (4 wks)
- June 29: Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” (4 wks)
- July 27: No Doubt “Don’t Speak” (4 wks)
- Aug. 24: Bruce Springsteen “Spare Parts (live, slow version)” (2 wks)
- Sept. 7: Eric Clapton “Change the World” (2 wks)
- Sept. 21: Fiona Apple “Never Is a Promise” (2 wks)
- Oct. 5: Bruce Springsteen “Born in the U.S.A. (live, slow version)” (2 wks)
- Oct. 19: Eels “Novocaine for the Soul” (3 wks)
- Nov. 9: Tori Amos “Over the Rainbow” (3 wks)
- Nov. 30: Sting “I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying” (2 wks)
- Dec. 14: Seal “Fly Like an Eagle” (2 wks)
- Dec. 28: Paula Cole “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” (2 wks)
1997:
- Jan. 11: Fish “Kayleigh (acoustic)” (2 wks)
- Jan. 25: Fish “Sugar Mice (acoustic)” (2 wks)
- Feb. 8: The Verve Pipe “The Freshmen” (4 wks)
- Mar. 8: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones “The Impression That I Get” (3 wks)
- Mar. 29: K’s Choice “Not an Addict’ (5 wks)
- May 3: Marillion “Estonia” (4 wks)
- May 31: Live “Freaks” (2 wks)
- June 14: Indigo Girls “Leeds” (2 wks)
- June 28: Styx “Dear John” (6 wks)
- Aug. 9: Babyface with Stevie Wonder “How Come, How Long” (4 wks)
- Sept. 6: Puff Daddy with Faith Evans & 112 “I’ll Be Missing You” (4 wks)
- Oct. 4: The Verve “Bittersweet Symphony” (3 wks)
- Oct. 25: Foo Fighters “Everlong” (2 wks)
- Nov. 8: Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (4 wks)
- Dec. 6: Loreena McKennitt “The Mummer’s Dance” (4 wks)
1998:
- Jan. 3: Third Eye Blind “How’s It Gona Be” (2 wks)
- Jan. 17: Ben Folds Five “Brick” (4 wks)
- Feb. 14: Green Day “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” (3 wks)
- Mar. 7: David Bowie “I Can’t Read” (2 wks)
- Mar 21: Foo Fighters “Baker Street” (2 wks)
- Apr. 4: Pearl Jam “Wishlist” (3 wks)
- Apr. 25: Bruce Springsteen “We Shall Overcome” (4 wks)
- May 23: Alanis Morissette “Uninvited” (4 wks)
- June 20: Peter Gabriel “I Grieve” (3 wks)
- July 11: Harvey Danger “Flagpole Sitta” (2 wks)
- July 25: Eve 6 “Inside Out” (3 wks)
- Aug. 15: Barenaked Ladies “One Week” (3 wks)
- Sept. 5: Keb’ Mo’ “What a Wonderful World” (3 wks)
- Sept. 26: Third Eye Blind “Jumper” (2 wks)
- Oct. 10: The Flys “Got You Where I Want You” (3 wks)
- Oct. 31: Shery Crow “Mississippi” (3 wks)
- Nov. 21: Lyle Lovett “Step Inside This House” (4 wks)
- Dec. 19: Alanis Morissette “Thank U” (3 wks)
1999:
- Jan. 9: New Radicals “You Get What You Give” (4 wks)
- Feb. 6: Peter Gabriel “That’ll Do” (3 wks)
- Feb. 27: Squeeze “To Be a Dad” (2 wks)
- Mar. 13: Pearl Jam “Last Kiss” (3 wks)
- Apr. 3: Alanis Morissette “Unsent” (4 wks)
- May 1: Fatboy Slim “Praise You” (3 wks)
- May 22: Eminem “’97 Bonnie and Clyde” (4 wks)
- June 19: Everlast “Ends” (3 wks)
- July 10: Train “Meet Virginia” (3 wks)
- July 31: Sheryl Crow “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (3 wks)
- Aug. 21: Styx “Everything Is Cool” (2 wks)
- Sept. 4: Chris Isaak “Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing” (3 wks)
- Sept. 25: Lyle Lovett & Keb’ Mo’ “Till It Shines” (4 wks)
- Oct. 23: Sting “Fill Her Up” (3 wks)
- Nov. 13: Sting “Tomorrow We’ll See” (2 wks)
- Nov. 27 Melissa Etheridge “Scarecrow” (3 wks)
- Dec. 18: Alanis Morissette “King of Pain (MTV Unplugged)” (2 wks)
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