List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1994

Boyz II Men (pictured) earned a Hot 100 number-one single with "I'll Make Love to You", which stayed at the top position for fourteen straight weeks.

This is a list of the American Billboard magazine Hot 100 number-ones of 1994. There were 10 singles that topped the chart this year. The first of these, "Hero" by Mariah Carey, spent three weeks at the top, concluding a four-week run that had begun in December 1993. The longest running number-one single of 1994 is "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men, which logged 14 weeks at number-one, tying the song with "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston for the most weeks at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 until "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men stayed atop the chart from December 1995 to the first quarter of 1996.

With the rise of "On Bended Knee" to the top of the Hot 100, Boyz II Men became the first act to chart consecutive number-one singles in the United States since The Beatles charted three consecutive number-one singles in 1964.

Furthermore, Lisa Loeb became the first artist to reach #1 with "Stay (I Missed You)" before signing to any record label.

That year, 7 acts earned their first number one song: Celine Dion, Ace of Base, R. Kelly, All-4-One, Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories, and Ini Kamoze. Sting, already having hit number one with The Police, earned his first number one song as a solo act. Boyz II Men was the only act to hit number one more than once, by hitting twice.

Chart history

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on BillboardTemplate:'s 1994 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

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784	January 1	"Hero"	Mariah Carey	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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785	January 22	"All for Love"	Bryan Adams / Rod Stewart / Sting	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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786	February 12	"The Power of Love"	Céline Dion	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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788	April 9	"Bump n' Grind"	R. Kelly	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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789	May 21	"I Swear"	All-4-One	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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790	August 6	"Stay (I Missed You)"	Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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791	August 27	"I'll Make Love to You"	Boyz II Men	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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793	December 17	"Here Comes the Hotstepper"	Ini Kamoze	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	Boyz II Men	17
2	All-4-One	11
3	Ace of Base	6
4	Céline Dion	4
	R. Kelly
6	Mariah Carey	3
	Bryan Adams
	Rod Stewart
	Sting
	Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
11	Ini Kamoze	2

See also

• 1994 in music
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1990s

Additional sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12th Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (Template:ISBN)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.